Day: 5 October 2009

Fix ACL/permissions on Mac OS X 10.5+

After much hacking at the command line and Google, I found this handy little app that strips the ACLs from files or folders. Why would I want to do this? Well one example is when attempting to retake ownership of a home folder recovered from another Mac’s hard drive.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26864