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"Apply to enclosed items" always grayed out.

At some pint after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.8, "Apply to enclosed items" is always grayed out, no matter what folder I try. I have repaired the disk and permissions, verified that permissions apply, etc. User is definitely admin. I've searched Apple discussions, it seems others have had this problem but no soultions yet, other than to re-install the operating system.

Someone suggested "Batchmod" but that doesn't allow you to get inside of packages and fix their permissions, which is sometimes necessary. I know how to fix permissions through the terminal, but I want to know why this feature is suddenly broken and how to fix it for my less savvy users.

Mac Dual 2.7 G5

Posted on Nov 10, 2006 9:22 AM

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Nov 18, 2006 9:28 AM in response to MarkDouma®

MarkDouma, I think you've nailed it! YES, some months ago I booted my system using a server install disk so that I could install server onto an external firewire drive. That must have done it. Now, I guess I will try to disable ACL's using sudo fsaclctl -p / -d. If that doesn't work, I guess I will have to boot back into server in order to turn off ACL's for my boot drive.

Thanks so much!

"Apply to enclosed items" always grayed out.

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