SupaScoopa
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The Finder's a little messed up right now, here's the whole long story:
I went ahead and immediately began looking for all the fun things to mess with in the many resources of the system as soon as I had loaded up Jaguar 10.2.2.
I was initially attempting to implement a little trick that worked in one of the old developer preview versions of X (this was to enable the setting of Individual icons sizes by switching the MENU resource ID for the "View" menu with the "(Debug) View Menu" ID). Well as soon as i found out this did not work anymore, I wanted to go and put back my original 'Finder.app' file.
What i had done, as i had done numerous times in OS 9, was to simply copy the original stock 'Finder.app' twice to somewhere, edit one of them and leave the other untouched as a backup. So when I wanted my original Finder back, i simply replaced the 'Finder.app' in the CoreServices folder with the old one and restarted the finder (by logging out, to be safe).
I now consistenly run into the problem that I cannot change the owners or groups in the permissions of ANY file! I can do it with chmod or chown , but trying to change the ownership of any file in Finder:Get Info gives me an error stating something along the lines of "The finder is not allowed to change the permissions... ...perhaps this is because the Finder was Copied or Moved" which, of course, it was.
So using the terminal i noticed the owner and permissions for the Finder.app were not the same as Dock.app or other system files, so I went and 'sudo chown'ed and 'chmod'ed it to be identical as the other apps (owner: system (root) has r/w/x, group:wheel has read only). Same problem still.
So The Question : how do I give Finder the same privileges it used to have???
even when the privilege flags are the same (as seen by "ls -Fl") , right now Virtual PC will not start up because it wants to 'complete the installation' by setting the permissions for Application Support files, but it doesn't use the system authenticate screen, and thus doesn't recognize the correct authentication i provide. I believe this is related, as this is when i noticed the aforementioned problem with Finder's Get Info
ermissions screen.
btw, 'Finder.app' is the only file i touched
If someone can figure this out you must be a genius, thanks a lot for anything you could possibly suggest.
I went ahead and immediately began looking for all the fun things to mess with in the many resources of the system as soon as I had loaded up Jaguar 10.2.2.
I was initially attempting to implement a little trick that worked in one of the old developer preview versions of X (this was to enable the setting of Individual icons sizes by switching the MENU resource ID for the "View" menu with the "(Debug) View Menu" ID). Well as soon as i found out this did not work anymore, I wanted to go and put back my original 'Finder.app' file.
What i had done, as i had done numerous times in OS 9, was to simply copy the original stock 'Finder.app' twice to somewhere, edit one of them and leave the other untouched as a backup. So when I wanted my original Finder back, i simply replaced the 'Finder.app' in the CoreServices folder with the old one and restarted the finder (by logging out, to be safe).
I now consistenly run into the problem that I cannot change the owners or groups in the permissions of ANY file! I can do it with chmod or chown , but trying to change the ownership of any file in Finder:Get Info gives me an error stating something along the lines of "The finder is not allowed to change the permissions... ...perhaps this is because the Finder was Copied or Moved" which, of course, it was.
So using the terminal i noticed the owner and permissions for the Finder.app were not the same as Dock.app or other system files, so I went and 'sudo chown'ed and 'chmod'ed it to be identical as the other apps (owner: system (root) has r/w/x, group:wheel has read only). Same problem still.
So The Question : how do I give Finder the same privileges it used to have???
even when the privilege flags are the same (as seen by "ls -Fl") , right now Virtual PC will not start up because it wants to 'complete the installation' by setting the permissions for Application Support files, but it doesn't use the system authenticate screen, and thus doesn't recognize the correct authentication i provide. I believe this is related, as this is when i noticed the aforementioned problem with Finder's Get Info
ermissions screen.btw, 'Finder.app' is the only file i touched
If someone can figure this out you must be a genius, thanks a lot for anything you could possibly suggest.