<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I did a fresh software installation on a reformatted mac and I run into this problem: I cannot create custom dictionaries in Excalibur. When I try to create a dictionary in/ Applications/Tex/Excalibur, it tells me that “APpleShare won’t allow the opening of this file (access denied)”. If I move Excalibur on the desktop, the error goes away. Do I need to set permissions? The current permissions in /Applications/TeX/EXcalibur were set (I assume) by the MacTex installer to:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxrwxr-x </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">9 root</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">wheel </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">306 Feb</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;"> 3 10:14 Excalibur</span></div><div><font face="Menlo"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Menlo"><span style="font-size: 11px;">My laptop, which doesn’t have this problem, gives</span><br></font><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x+ 10 Themis staff 340 Nov 16 09:22 Excalibur</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;"><br></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"><br></div><div><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Themis</span><br><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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