I have two partitions: one OS9 drive and one OSX drive. Everything is separate, and I use the os9 drive's system for classic under X.
There are two issues. 1) I need an easy, automated way of giving every file on the os9 drive permissions that allow me (admin) to read/write them using osx. The problem is, the "copy permissions to all subfolders" feature is only for folders (obviously). I need to make all files read/write. Alternatively, most files on os9 that were created before osx installation have an owner of "system". I need to be the owner, or at least have permission. One example of why this is bad: I can't open many apps in classic, such as quark, because it doesn't have write access to the prefs file, it prevents me from opening the app. In addition, I can't save over docs on my os9 drive that I don't have permission for. Very bad. I know I can individually set permissions for a file using root, but that is inconvenient for ALL my files!
In an attempt to solve this issue, I checked the "ignore permissions on this drive" for os9 drive. Big Mistake. After restarting, and launching classic I get a message that osx needs to add components to os9 system folder (which were actually already there). After this, classic crashes and won't start. I restart into os9 and I get an error after startup saying Finder can't start up because it cannot find "DragLib" which doesn't seem to exist in any installation I've seen. arg.
There are two issues. 1) I need an easy, automated way of giving every file on the os9 drive permissions that allow me (admin) to read/write them using osx. The problem is, the "copy permissions to all subfolders" feature is only for folders (obviously). I need to make all files read/write. Alternatively, most files on os9 that were created before osx installation have an owner of "system". I need to be the owner, or at least have permission. One example of why this is bad: I can't open many apps in classic, such as quark, because it doesn't have write access to the prefs file, it prevents me from opening the app. In addition, I can't save over docs on my os9 drive that I don't have permission for. Very bad. I know I can individually set permissions for a file using root, but that is inconvenient for ALL my files!
In an attempt to solve this issue, I checked the "ignore permissions on this drive" for os9 drive. Big Mistake. After restarting, and launching classic I get a message that osx needs to add components to os9 system folder (which were actually already there). After this, classic crashes and won't start. I restart into os9 and I get an error after startup saying Finder can't start up because it cannot find "DragLib" which doesn't seem to exist in any installation I've seen. arg.