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“The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use” when deleting from Samba mounted drive
I have a USB drive plugged into my Asus RT-N66U router and shared over SMB. I originally formatted this drive on a Mac. I have two Trendnet TV-IP572PI surveillance cameras that records snapshots/video ...
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Cannot Save/Edit to Mac Share Using Mountain Lion
The problem: Under Mountain Lion (10.8.3) I cannot create new files or save changes to a particular share, which is running Lion (10.7).
I can connect to the shared Mac on my local network (in a ...
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Folder in root greyed out in Finder but accessible in Terminal
I've just migrated from an old MBP to a new one. I had a folder Transmachina in the root in which I keep a large SVN working copy. I just copied this over with cp -R but on the new machine this folder ...
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File has different owner if examined using `sudo`
I have some files backed up on an external HD, and according to Finder they're all owned by my standard user account. According to Terminal, however, they're owned "unknown" if I look at them using ...
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Whenever I try to delete a file in Finder I get “Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.”
I can't figure out why Finder isn't letting me delete files under my home directory without providing my password. Here's a listing of some files on my desktop:
~/Desktop steve 526$ ls -l@ flower*
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How do I set the default file permissions for GUI apps in Lion?
I've set my umask in my .bashrc file to 007. Any files created on the command line after loading my bashrc file respects this setting. I want to be able to set the umask to 007 for any files created ...
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Mac OS X finder and disk utility not responding
My mac had turned slow and buggy - I did a reinstall.
After a couple of attempts I succeeded with a "blank" install. I thought it was working fine but now the problems from before keeps popping up:
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How to get Finder in Lion to set group permissions to read/write by default?
To have group permissions set to read/write by default in Snow Leopard and Leopard, I used /etc/launchd-user.conf to set the umask to 002.
This still works in Lion in every app except the Finder. ...
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Xcode not letting me open a specific project
When i try to open a specific project in xcode (i can open my other projects just not the most important one) i get this error
I have gone in "Get Info" and made sure my account had complete ...
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Why can't I send my files to the Trash?
When I try to delete some items, whether from the keyboard (Command+Delete) or by dragging to the Trash on the dock, I get a message informing me that I can only permanently delete the item.
Why is ...
