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Fluffy
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posted April 15, 2002 14:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Fluffy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
whenever i try to start classic i'm getting "You do not have sufficient permissions to run Classic from /Volumes/ivoFluffy (my other hard drive) /System Folder. Please correct permissions and restart Classic." I have just reinstalled osx , i'm thinking that would have triggered it, but i'm just in for the solution here.

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Ti
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posted April 15, 2002 15:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Ti     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you know how to use the shell you can check the permissions to that drive (ls -al) if you don't have Read/write access you can use the command chmod 755 <folder name>

But I'm sure I'm overcomplicating it :-)

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Fluffy
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posted April 15, 2002 15:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Fluffy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
that doesn't change anything.... thanks though, any other ideas?

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GameMaster
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posted April 15, 2002 21:53     Click Here to See the Profile for GameMaster   Click Here to Email GameMaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Umm.. try read/write/exicute? 777 --this done at root on a *nix OS should work...

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Fluffy
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posted April 16, 2002 04:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Fluffy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
okay, thanks guys, that worked A-ok. i understand the way the 3 numbers are for read/write/execute. mind going over what each of the digits represents?

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Ti
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posted April 16, 2002 10:47     Click Here to See the Profile for Ti     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Actually the three digits represent which group has what premissions, for instance, chmod XYZ

X is user permission (YOUR permissions)
Y is group permission (Only if your group is different then your user name)
Z is the premission that Everyone has

The number is technically a 4 digit Octal code (the first digit representing whether or not it's a directory and therefore generally ignored or left off in the chmod command)

The common numbers used are the following
0 - No permissions
5 - Read Only
7 - Read/Write

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Lex
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posted April 16, 2002 15:54     Click Here to See the Profile for Lex   Click Here to Email Lex     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
More specifically:

4 = read
2 = write
1 = execute

Add these together to get whatever combination you want.

Use -R to set permissions recursively.

For more information, type "man chmod"

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codeonezero
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posted April 16, 2002 16:31     Click Here to See the Profile for codeonezero   Click Here to Email codeonezero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hmm...how about just selecting the classic Mac OS drive, getting info and clicking under Permissions "Ignore permissions for this drive" something like that. You can do that if you have a separate drive with classic Mac OS.

You unix geeks Well ok, I am one too. I'm also a Mac geek.

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