Setting permissions seems not to work

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aicul

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I occasionally use the "GET INFO" function to set the permissions of a folder and the files it contains. Normally to read-only as a security measure.

Often however, the RO permissions are not assigned to the files in the folder and sub-folders.

Is this a bug in OSX or am I doing, missing somthing?
 
Tommo that's a pertinent question concerning a fact I should have made clear in my initial post.

I press the apply to enclosed items. The cursor actualy changes to a watch for a few moments. But still the permissions are not applied to ALL files, directories, sub-directories and their files.
 
Is this folder on the same Hard Drive as OSX? Under the permissions, who is the owner? Who has access? Group? if you can provide a snap shot of the info screen it may be helpful for us to see what is going on.
 
The folder and files are located on the same disk as OSX, on the same mac. I try to do the changes using an admin account. I reset all permissions to RO.

Powermac I appreciate your post, but the problem lies in OSX applying the permissions, not what the permissions I set will allow me to do.
 
I'm having exactly the same problem is aicul.

What's odd is that it's happening on only one of my three Macs, all of which are running OSX 10.3.8.

In my case, I'm trying to set permissions for my Mail directory to allow me to backup to that directory from another Mac on my home network (I'm logged in with my Admin account).

Hitting the "Apply To Enclosed Items" button causes the cursor to change to the "watch" icon for a moment, but the permissions on the enclosed items do not change.

On a guess, I tried repairing permissions via Disk Utility, then trying again. Same result. Very odd!
 
For whatever reason, Finder does not seem to be very adept at drilling down through multiple layers of folders to change permissions. BatCHMod however, works first time every time and will drill down through any reasonable number of layers. Give it a try and see if it doesn't solve your problem.
 
Well thanks for the tool. Should of though to look for one myself. But then looking outside the box is sometimes just to obviously easy.

Cheers
 
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