[OS X TeX] All TeX files are locked!
André Bellaïche
abellaic at math.jussieu.fr
Thu Jul 30 01:51:54 CEST 2009
Le 30 juil. 09 à 01:29, Alan T Litchfield a écrit :
>
> On 30/07/2009, at 11:04 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>>
>> Le 30 juil. 09 à 00:47, Alan T Litchfield a écrit :
>>
>>> Option 1: Fix the ownership/permissions on the affected file (in
>>> the GUI, click on the file, press Cmd+i and look at the bottom of
>>> the opened pane. You will need the admin password probably.
>>
>> But hundred of files are affected!
>>
>> I have tried to read the info for some of the affected files:
>>
>> For all of them, I get for owners :
>>
>> everyone : personalized
>> Me : read and write
>> staff : read and write
>> everyone : read and write
>>
>> I suspect the first "everyone" is the "everyone" of my MacBook Pro!
>>
>> For EPS files, I get the same funny list of owners, but it does not
>> prevent rewriting on an existing file.
>>
>
> OK, instead in Terminal
>
> cd to the affected directory and chown 770 or 775 for each *.tex
>
> For specific instructions on what to do man chmod.
>
> You might also need to su
>
> Otherwise you might want to specify ownership with chown, read it in
> man chown.
Before trying this, I want rto show you the result of ls -al in one of
the affected directories. Does it look normal?
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff
drwxrwxrwx@ 20 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff
drwxrwxrwx+ 6 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff
-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff
>
>
>>
>>> Option 2: Repair Permissions using Disk Utility if you want to fix
>>> the whole disk's permissions at the same time.
>>
>> I have already done that. It seems that permissions have been
>> repaired for system files, but not for my files.
>
> Interesting. Haven't had that before with me. Have you tried logging
> in as admin if your login is limited?
>
> Alan
>
>
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