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MacOS Snow Leopard and Lion: permissions set for a folder aren't inherited by new files copied into it or created in it.

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Suggest you expand this question a bit, and put it into the form of a question. – Negrino Aug 6 '11 at 22:15
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This is actually the way it's supposed to behave. I'm not sure why, nor do I think it makes any sense at all, but that's how it works. Try writing a script that runs a chmod -R command periodically on the parent folder. That's what I do. – Vickash Nov 12 '11 at 14:45

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