<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br>On Feb 3, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Themis Matsoukas <<a href="mailto:tmatsoukas@icloud.com">tmatsoukas@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">Thanks Herb, this fixed it.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 3, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On Feb 3, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Themis Matsoukas <<a href="mailto:tmatsoukas@icloud.com">tmatsoukas@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">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:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxrwxr-x 9 root wheel 306 Feb 3 10:14 Excalibur<br><br>My laptop, which doesn’t have this problem, gives<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>drwxr-xr-x+ 10 Themis staff 340 Nov 16 09:22 Excalibur<br><br><br>Themis<br></blockquote><br>Howdy,<br><br>Have to admit that I don't use Excalibur but changing the owner and group should work if Excalibur is writing in that folder. Try changing the owner and group using<br><br>sudo chown Themis:staff /Applications/TeX/Excalibur <br><br>and see if that does the job.<br><br>Good Luck,<br><br>Herb Schulz<br>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Howdy,</div><div><br></div><div>Glad that worked.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I'm a bit surprised that Excalibur writes to that folder. Most apps that need to write information use a folder in ~/Library/Application Support/ or other folder in ~/Library/ so that each user has their own configuration. </div><div><br></div><div>Good Luck,</div><div>Herb Schulz</div><div><br></div></body></html>