restrict folder access

[randomlinh]

Is there anyway to do this? I use external drives more often than not because I don't want to risk my iMac going kaput and then Apple formatting the drive. So Apps and temp space are on the internal drive, and documents/media on the externals.

Needless to say, I'm going to open up the computer for my family to use since I have the scanner. I don't want them accidentally deleting anything on the removable drives, so I want to give them a single folder to access.

my unix permission skills are a bit lacking obviously, but I'm thinking removable drives don't quite follow it? Am I correct? Or way out in left field?

Would appreciate the assistance

Linh

 

[TheStu]

I think that if you select the folder that you don't then to access and then do a Get Info on it, you can then change up persmissions, either put the others people in your family in a different user group, or, uncheck the permissions box on the Folder (can't remember the name off the top of my head right now.)

 

[randomlinh]

I'm a little afraid to mess w/ user groups cause I've botched up a linux box that way 🙂

But yes, I'm somewhat familiar w/ that.. I've set only myself to read and write, as the owner. Others is set to No Access. When I log in as another user, it says that user has read/write permissions still as well.

I mentioned the whole removable drive thing because if I do the same settings on any folder on the internal HDD, it does exactly what I expect of it.

 

[TheStu]

hrm, i'm not real sure what to tell you...

 

[randomlinh]

Well, I went into the guest account i had made,and then set itself to no access.. then back to my account to give myself access .. and it seems to work...

 

[TheStu]

There you go, glad you could work it out.