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omnis_audis - Jun 26, 2009 11:31:50 am PDT #10574 of 25501
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§ ita § - Jun 26, 2009 11:53:51 am PDT #10575 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I installed an app as one user on OS X, and now I can't upgrade it as another. Is there any simple way to chown over all the application files to the new user? Also, if I delete the old user, what happens to the rights?
And why doesn't admin behave the way I want it to, which means absolute dominion over all?
Tom Scola - Jun 26, 2009 12:00:53 pm PDT #10576 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I installed an app as one user on OS X, and now I can't upgrade it as another. Is there any simple way to chown over all the application files to the new user? Also, if I delete the old user, what happens to the rights?
From the command-line, you can type "sudo chown -R ita:ita /Applications/Awesome.app"
There's also an interface to do this via the Finder's "Get Info" pane.
And why doesn't admin behave the way I want it to, which means absolute dominion over all?
If you really want that, you can always enable the root account, which will give you such awesome power, and with it, the ability to seriously fuck up your computer.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2009 12:39:24 pm PDT #10577 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sudo chown -R ita:ita /Applications/Awesome.app
Based on what happened when I clicked on uninstall (a partial list of folders came up) it's not all in one folder. Is Applications smart enough to find everything, even if I'm just operating from the command line? Or even from a Finder pane?
with it, the ability to seriously fuck up your computer
I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to log out to upgrade a damned app. That's working against me.
Well, let me delete my test user and see what happens to access to its files.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2009 4:09:46 pm PDT #10578 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who cares? The machine is currently refusing to boot. ::sigh::
le nubian - Jun 27, 2009 8:18:29 am PDT #10579 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
maybe you need to do a complete undelete for the app before you try to reinstall it?
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2009 9:13:51 am PDT #10580 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stopped in my uninstall tracks because I didn't want to lose the application data (call logs and notes, primarily for my job search) right now and it wasn't clear where it was or what would happen to it.
I think I'm going to try the sudo chown fix since I can't find where in Finder I can reassign ownership from.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2009 1:40:42 pm PDT #10581 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone know anything offhand about Adobe Flash Lite? Upon cursory examination it doesn't look like I can upgrade the version on my phone to 2.1 by downloading anything from adobe.com. And it doesn't seem to be a technical limitation, annoyingly.
Tom Scola - Jun 27, 2009 3:24:15 pm PDT #10582 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Dude!
Remember a while ago when we talked about the $99 Sheevaplug computer? I said that I wanted to get one of those, add a USB IR transmitter to it, and use it as a universal remote that I could control with my iPhone?
Well I went ahead and bought a Sheevaplug (they were back-ordered, it took over a month to ship), and also one of these, and I was able to send IR commands to my TV set!
That was the hard part; I wasn't sure that when I put everything together it would work. Now all I have to do is install apache on this thing and write a web app that I can control with my iphone. Awesome.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2009 4:27:27 pm PDT #10583 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Tom--the chown worked just fine--navigated the apparently unrelated paths precisely well enough that I can update from my main account now. Fie on the application for requiring me to be the owner, rather than just another member of the admin group.