rlesperance Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi, I am able to delete Retrospect's Backup Set files without warning. I changed the ownership of these files (BackupSetName and BackupSetName.cat) to my admin user to be sure the are protected. These now belong to an ADMIN user and from within any other user, I can delete them in the Finder without having to give an ADMIN name or password. How can this be possible ? Is it because «Ignore authorization of the volume» is unselected» in the Info window ? Thanks in advance. Robert Lespérance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 The behavior of the Finder has nothing to do with Retrospect. > I changed the ownership of these files (BackupSetName and BackupSetName.cat) > to my admin user to be sure the are protected Ownership alone doesn't give the whole story, as it's perfectly appropriate for a file owned by one user to have read/write/delete privileges for another. It all depends on how the matrix of ownership/permissions/access control is configured. Try using the Finder's "Lock" flag, located in the Get Info dialog box for any file. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 If the "uchg" flag (set by the Finder's "Lock" checkbox) is not set, then the ability to delete will be controlled by the permissions on the enclosing folder. As Dave has said, this is a Unix/Finder issue, and Retrospect has no control over how you muck about outside of Retrospect. Retrospect can't prevent you from formatting your disk drive, either. As a remark, if you set the "uchg" flag (check the "Lock" checkbox in the Finder's Get Info window), then you will no longer be able to update those backup sets in Retrospect, because you will have marked them as unchangeable. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 I suggested: > Try using the Finder's "Lock" flag, located in the Get Info dialog box for any file. To which Russ commented: > if you set the "uchg" flag (check the "Lock" checkbox in the Finder's Get Info window), then you > will no longer be able to update those backup sets in Retrospect... To which I reply: Doh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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