Batch changing file permissions?

I have a bunch of photos from a recent trip on my laptop. I just transferred them to my Mac Pro desktop rig. Unfortunately every single one of them says I don't have permissions to open them. Other than doing a get info on each and every single one - one at a time - is there a way to batch process the permissions so I can open them in Lightroom and Photoshop on my desktop rig?

Open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, type in the following:
chmod u+rw
Type a space, drag all of them into the Terminal window, and press Enter. No message will appear unless there's a problem.
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How to batch change file permissions?

I posted this problem in another forum and think it belong here.
A client sent me a CD of data and graphical files. I copied them into a new folder on my desktop but I am unable to alter or change them because they are read only.
How can I change all the files in the directory over to read/write? Is there an easy way to do this?
John

BatChmod is a good GUI application for changing permissions.
Or you can try this in a Terminal window:
chmod -R u+rwX [spacebar, drag folder to Terminal window, press return]

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How do I stop Dreamweaver CS6 12.0.1.5842 randomly changing file permissions when it uploads files to my web server via FTP.
I can no longer trust Dreamweaver to upload websites correctly as it changes permissions on some files which then deny the server access to the file which in turn makes the webpage unreachable/return a 403 error.
This is driving me insane.
I'm using an early 2011 Macbook Pro 10.7.5.

Hi,
I'm having this problem too. Has Adobe fixed the issue yet? This appears to be an Adobe problem, not all the web hosts out there. CS6 is ramdomly (meaning: not every time) changing permissions on files uploaded with it and is not usable for web work until this problem is fixed by Adobe or a solution is provided. If I wanted to use a separate FTP program I would not have recommended that my employer buy multiple Adobe CS6 product licenses. One of the primary appeals of DW is the integration of FTP into the workflow.
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OSX 10.7.5
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Permz - Quickly change file permissions in any file manager

Designed to be integrated into any file manager, permz is a bash script which presents a GUI menu. You can use it to quickly change file permissions and ownership as a normal user or as root, and delete files as root. I wrote this because I have yet to see a file manager that isn't cumbersome for this - the mechanism is usually buried on a second tab of the Properties window, and changing permissions often involves multiple clicks in a grid. To change the owner of a file, you need to type the username. And if the file is owned by root, you can't do anything.
permz --help
Presents a GUI menu for changing file permissions/ownership. May be run
as a normal user or root.
Requires: zenity gksu
Optional: sudo (recommended to prevent multiple root password prompts)
Usage: permz FILE [...]
MENU FUNCTIONS:
rwxrwxrwx Sets file(s) to given permissions
Sticky Clear/Set Performs "chmod -t" or +t to clear or set the sticky
bit. You may select to clear/set sticky in addition
to changing other permissions.
Recursive go-rxw "chmod -R go-rxw" on file(s) recursively, denying
access to non-owners
Recursive go-w "chmod -R go-w" on file(s) recursively, denying write
to non-owners
Recursive ugo+rX "chmod -R ugo+rX" giving read access to all. Also
sets +x for directories and executables.
Recursive ugo+w "chmod -R ugo+w" on file(s), giving write to all
(You may select several compatible recursive functions above at once)
Owner USER As ROOT Sets ownership to USER:USER as root
DELETE As ROOT Deletes file(s) as root. Must be used alone or with
"Perform Recursively" (to delete directories - USE
WITH CAUTION). Not available if permz is run as root.
Perform As ROOT Run as root to change selected permissions.
(Use of root is automatic when changing ownership)
Perform Recursively Adds -R to all chmod, chown, and delete commands to
descend into subdirectories. Use in conjunction with
any other functions. (Recursion is automatic for
"Recursive" functions above)
Current su command is set to: gksu -gS
If you're somewhat familiar with bash, adding additional options or changing the existing ones is straightforward.
I have tested it pretty thoroughly but if you do encounter anything amiss please let me know.
More details at http://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-permz/
And in the AUR at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36978
Instructions for integrating permz into PCManFM-Mod are here.
Last edited by IgnorantGuru (2010-05-05 13:53:08)

rransom wrote:Recursive ugo+rX would be more useful than "Recursive ugo+r (dirs +x)". (The +X feature of chmod is available at least in GNU coreutils, FreeBSD, and POSIX 2003.)
Done - thanks for the tip. I also left the old code active in there with just the menu option disabled, so if anyone wants it the other way or wants both it's easy to enable. The difference is that the old way won't make any files +x, just dirs.
permz doesn't provide every possible setting of permissions, just common ones, so you may want to customize it. But I used to have these as user actions when I used Krusader and I found these were the handy ones, at least for me.

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Hello Abby,
Thanks for posting here.
I would like to know how you're trying to change File permissions. Is that by using FileZilla or something?
I would suggest you to refer the below links.
Related Thread:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/50e94a19-066b-443e-a70a-4fe3d99a6e95/how-to-set-file-permissions?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/chmod-aka-file-permissions
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Hmm ok, im a little bit lost. The server is running a pretty complicated video broadcasting site that I dont have much to do with. the app im making encodes videos and uploads them to a import directory on the server. From there some type of program accepts them and puts them in the sites playlist. The problem is the program that accepts them has to have the permissions set to 0777 before it recognizes them. My app doesn't run on the server it only get files there. And as far as i know these are the only files that need the permissions to 0777. by changing the unmask on the server will that effect other files on the site.

Batch change file date to match exif date

Hi All-
I recently got a mac pro. Upon importing my photos to iPhoto, the file date for each is set to the date of the import. When using the mac photo screensaver, the date that shows up for everything is the import date, rather than the date the photo was taken.
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Interesting, but here is what I found out. I was annoyed because when I sucked in about 1000 JPGs from my camera's memory stick, and then I copied them to my Windows boxen, the file dates were wrong. I was surprised that there isn't an easy way to do this... until your post!! Thanks. *APPLE, Please fix the way "Originals" are stored during iPhoto import*, since something is wrong here. The file dates stored on my memory stick should have been used not the moment I clicked import in iPhoto.
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How can I batch change all my file names?

I am having a similar problem in Lr4. I made the mistake of not specifying a custom name at the beginning of a big import and I now have hundreds of photographs called "untitled_date_picture name_sequence.dng" I have created a custom renaming action that I normally use for all imports except this time I forgot to specify the custom text part at the beginning of the file string.
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Adobe Air Mac Change File Permissions

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I have a Adobe Air app for MAC that downloads a zip file then decompresses it uzing the fzip library... After decompression i try executing a .app file with NativeProcess API... But after the decompression the file loses permission to execute enven if i try to manually execute the .app it doesn't open... But if I change the .app permissions with command line the .app opens even with the NativeProcess API.
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I am creating log files using file handler class.They are created with some permissions in linux. Now I want to change the permissions of the those log files.
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Kiran,
There are several ways to do this. I guess the easiest would be to change the "umask" of the (linux) user who is launching OC4J -- that way, any file created by that user will have the required permissions. Isn't that better than creating the files with the wrong permissions (in the first place) and them trying to change them afterward? (Or have I misunderstood your question?)
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I would like to get in my code events when file permissions are changed.
Please could you answer or to advice some workaround if it's not possible?
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There are no events for permission changes in KM.
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Mass change file permissions

Long story but basically a couple of months ago one of my logins just suddenly dissapeared. Would not let me in with that user name...no good. Was still able to access the files going through the root, but when I created a new login I was unable to access the old login's files...only through the root. Is there a way to mass change the permissions so that the files are accessible?
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Rippeddisc wrote:
Long story but basically a couple of months ago one of my logins just suddenly dissapeared. Would not let me in with that user name...no good. Was still able to access the files going through the root, but when I created a new login I was unable to access the old login's files...only through the root. Is there a way to mass change the permissions so that the files are accessible?
yes, it's possible but you have to do it from terminal. DO NOT try to change permissions recursively on your old home folder from Finder. However, none of this is probably necessary and it should be a simple matter to recreate your old account with the old homedirectory. would you prefer that or do you really want to just move the files from the old home directory to the new one?
if you don't want to recreate the old user,
to recursively change permissions on that home directory run the following terminal command from the account you want to access those files from
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instead of oldusername put the short name of the user that disappeared.
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We also encouter this problem. Seems like hard code. As it doesn't related to umask.
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Hi all
The following script will be saved as a droplet which will batch
change permissions of the folder and it's contents when they are
dropped onto it. I can only change the folder not the contents, how
would I get it to do the folder and the contents of the folder?
on open (these_objects)
repeat with each_object in (get every item of these_objects)
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set everyones privileges of each_object to read write
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end open
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Assuming you're only dropping folders, you'll need a nested repeat. See my notes…
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on open (these_objects)
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set owner privileges of each_object to read write
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set everyones privileges of each_object to read write
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set owner privileges of file_object to read write
set group privileges of file_object to read write
set everyones privileges of file_object to read write
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end repeat
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