Re: "Recovered Files" Always in Trash

On 11/16/06 7:30 PM, in article C1826C7D.326A%markpedretti@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"Mark Pedretti" <markpedretti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So this leaves me/us with a couple of options:

-(1) figure out how to repair the permissions on an invisible folder
(Temporary Items). I made some initial forays into investigating this by
using an app that showed all invisible items, but I couldn't change the
permissions in the Get Info window for anything that looked like it might be
the responsible folder.

Run this script in Script Editor:


set tempFolderPath to path to temporary items as Unicode text
tell application "Finder"
set tempFolder to folder tempFolderPath
tell tempFolder to set {owner privileges, group privileges, everyones
privileges} to {read write, read only, read only}
set allTempFiles to entire contents of tempFolder
repeat with i from 1 to (count allTempFiles)
set tempFile to item i of my allTempFiles
tell tempFile
set {owner privileges, group privileges, everyones privileges}
to {read write, read only, read only}
end tell
end repeat
end tell

(If you get an error saying this is not allowed, it would mean that you are
not the owner of your own temp folder, which is pretty well impossible. But
if you do, report back.)

-(2) screwing around at the root user level. This might include seeing if I
can change the permissions at this level, or even performing an install of
Office from here. I must admit that this idea strikes fear into my heart,
if only because I'm new to this file system and worry that I might make
things even worse. But then again, most of my major breakthroughs on the
Mac have come from taking such risks.


Don't!

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