Leopard Strikes Again

Posted by pookzilla on March 31, 2008

As yet another example of how Leopard is a massive pile of Fail, my Documents folder is no longer writable. Well, that’s not exactly true. I can drop files in it but I must first authenticate before it’ll allow the operation despite the fact that the file permissions are seemingly okay (at least Finder and the command line tell me they are.) I can’t write to it at all from applications directly and I can’t do it from the command line either.

I have this horrible fear that my system is on the verge of eating itself.

Edit: it appears to have been an issue with my access control list after all (nice thinking McQ). Knowing absolutely nothing about ACLs, however, I was a bit confuzzled as to what course of action I should take. I bit the bullet and downloaded ACL Fix from version tracker and after chewing on my Documents folder for five minutes or so I now seem to have a “normal” Documents folder.  I still dont know how I managed to get into this predicament – as near as I can tell it was the last system upate – but at last I’ll know what to do next time it happens.