When I click the Get Info tab for some applications, the Permissions area states I have Custom Access
(i.e. Garage Band, iWeb). For other kinds of items, Read and Write is displayed the Permissions area.
I am the only user of my computer and have no other accounts set up.
What is Permissions about and how does it affect computer useage? Should I change anything? Thanks for explaining.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Custom Access means the permissions set on the item you're looking at is not the default settings. Whether that is a problem then needs fixing depends.
Are you having any problems when you run applications? Is the system behaving strangely? If no then I'd leave it alone.
If you do have any problems you could run the systems permissions repair. Open Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, select the root drive and do a permissions repair. You'll get a lot of stuff printed out, it is safe to ignore that. This may or may not change what you see in the Info window.
But again if it aint't broke don;t fix it is my motto.
regards
What does custom access mean?
