Folders in iCloud Drive in MacOS.

[match14]

My folders in iCloud Drive Documents, Desktop etc. show as read only for everyone when I right click and select get info.

Does anyone else get this?

 

[26139]

There are three options, correct?
Username (Me), set to read and write, staff set to read only, and everyone set to read only?

 

[match14]

Yes that’s correct.

 

[26139]

I would recommend leaving it alone.
Staff refers to all non-admin users of your computer and I believe everyone refers to users on your network if you have sharing on.

 

[revmacian]

The files inside my Documents folder seem to be 755 (rwxr-xr-x).. user has full perms while group and other have read-only perms. This is how it should be.

I think the iCloud Drive folder in Finder is a smart folder. The location is actually ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ and if you ls that location in Terminal you'll find many folders that aren't visible in iCloud Drive in Finder. The Documents folder is ~/Documents but it appears in iCloud Drive in Finder - which leads me to believe that Finder does some weird magic when displaying the contents of iCloud Drive.

 

[match14]

Ok thanks

 

[revmacian]

Here is a good tutorial about BSD file permissions if you're interested: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/permissions.html

 

[match14]

Here is a good tutorial about BSD file permissions if you're interested: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/permissions.html

I’ll give it a read, thanks.