ACL found but not expected on . . . applications
Like others who've posted here, I stupidly did an "apply to enclosed items" when trying to fix a permission problem on a non-Apple application. I should have targeted my repair to that one application, but assumed there were more permission problems among Applications. (After moving a user to this new computer, I'd been dealing with quite a few permissions issues, but mostly on her work files, so I was a little distracted.) I realize the long list of "ACL found but not expected" messages when doing a "repair permissions" are not really a problem, but I'd like to get them fixed - get rid of the clutter. (If there was a real permission issue, it would be difficult to see among the clutter.)
Anyway, I've read (from V.K.) to do the following: In terminal, enter:
sudo chmod -RN /Applications
sudo chmod +a "everyone deny delete" /Applications /Applications/Utilities
then: "next delete everything in Applications except for Timemachine.app and the Utilities folder. next restore all that stuff from Time machine. next delete all contents of the Utilities folder and then restore it from TM. repair permissions afterward. that should fix all permissions back to what they were."
Problem is, I don't have these applications backed up in Time Machine. (I back up five computers to a tape drive through Retrospect, and only back up our work and certain other specific "user created" files. In case of a total crash, I figure I'd generally rather "start fresh" with whatever OS a new computer would come with.)
So, would it work to do the Terminal thing first, then reinstall the applications from the OS DVD via Pacifist? I guess any applications that have updated since the OS DVD would then be updated via Software Update?
Any other ideas? (Kappy mentioned entering "sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications" in Terminal, and nothing about having to restore
applications.)
Other than this annoyance, the computer is working fine.
Thanks,
Ginny
Anyway, I've read (from V.K.) to do the following: In terminal, enter:
sudo chmod -RN /Applications
sudo chmod +a "everyone deny delete" /Applications /Applications/Utilities
then: "next delete everything in Applications except for Timemachine.app and the Utilities folder. next restore all that stuff from Time machine. next delete all contents of the Utilities folder and then restore it from TM. repair permissions afterward. that should fix all permissions back to what they were."
Problem is, I don't have these applications backed up in Time Machine. (I back up five computers to a tape drive through Retrospect, and only back up our work and certain other specific "user created" files. In case of a total crash, I figure I'd generally rather "start fresh" with whatever OS a new computer would come with.)
So, would it work to do the Terminal thing first, then reinstall the applications from the OS DVD via Pacifist? I guess any applications that have updated since the OS DVD would then be updated via Software Update?
Any other ideas? (Kappy mentioned entering "sudo chown -R root:admin /Applications" in Terminal, and nothing about having to restore
applications.)
Other than this annoyance, the computer is working fine.
Thanks,
Ginny
iMac 21.5, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
