<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:51 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Before trying this, I want rto show you the result of ls -al in one of the affected directories. Does it look normal?<br><br>-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff<br>drwxrwxrwx@ 20 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 andre staff<br>drwxrwxrwx+ 6 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 andre staff<br>-rw-rw-rw-+ 1 andre staff<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>The @s mean that these files have extended attributes, that you may inspect by</div><div> ls -l@ *</div><div>in Terminal.</div><div><br></div><div>The +s indicate the presence of extended security information, most likely ACLs that were added by using the Finder, or alternately, Terminal-fu.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have children?</div><div>Perhaps someone opened "Get Info" for a certain folder, changed the permissions for "everyone" and then clicked on the gear at the bottom of the window, and then selected "Apply to enclosed items".</div><div>I would suggest that you go to the containing folder, open "Get Info"->"Sharing and Permissions", find the "everyone" item that has personalized permissions, and then click the "-" at the bottom of the window.</div></body></html>