Revising applications sharing and permissions

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Revising applications sharing and permissions

Reviewing the Get Info panel for a number of applications, I found a variety of names including some that I never heard of. Who are these people? In many cases I do not have Read & Write privileges, yet have used the applications without trouble. In all cases, I have been unable to ever use the minus sign at the bottom of the Get info panel to delete a name. I can ony use the plus sign to add names. Is this normal functionality for OSX applications?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Dec 4, 2013 7:52 PM

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Kappy

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Dec 4, 2013 7:59 PM in response to Paul Sedovic

Since you apparently don't know what you are doing allow me to encourage you not to fool around with changing permissions as no good will come of it.

The Delete [-] button in Get Info will only work for custom items that have been added. It does not work for entries that cannot be removed by a user.

A good rule of thumb: If you don't know what will happen if you change something, then don't change it until you find out what could happen. In other words, "Don't shoot first and ask questions afterwards."

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Paul Sedovic Author

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Dec 4, 2013 8:09 PM in response to Kappy

Thank you for encouraging me to do what I was doing...asking a question about something I didn't understand before changing it. The reason for my question was a newly installed application, OpenDrive, that should accommodate a second user but does not.

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Kappy

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Dec 4, 2013 8:18 PM in response to Paul Sedovic

OpenDrive is an online data storage service. I take it your question relates to their software for accessing their system. Therefore, I suggest you ask them about the problem. This would not be related to permissions.

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