Subject: Re: Can't write own home directory
From: Richard Zach (zach@math.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 16:36:32 EDT
Marc Miller wrote:
>
> I haven't seen this problem myself, but has anyone checked on the execute
> permission of the directory? I noticed when I was working on drop boxes
> before that MacOS can't write to a directory if you don't have +x set. I
> even wrote a little fix for that (lifted from the CAP code) which I will
> eventually post to SourceForge for netatalk 1.5.
The home directory, as well as .AppleDouble and .AppleDesktop etc. all
are drwxrws---, same results with just drwxrwx---. And as noted,
writing works if a file with the same name exists, if you're writing a
folder, or if you're saving from an application (as opposed to
drag-and-drop copying).
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