"Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <20080506002514.282$rM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> surfer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(C B) wrote:
>
> > I ran Verify Disk Permissions and Repair and received an error
message
> > for all the folders in the Library Folder. 'ACl found but not
> > expected'.
> >
> > Unable in Mac Help to find anything on this. Went thru Robin Williams'
> > book, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and no reference there either.
> >
> > The only change of late is downloads have gone to a crawl. From
average
> > 1.5 MB to 100 to 200 KB. Haven't figured that one out yet. Otherwise,
> > all's well.
> >
> > What is ACL? What action, if any, should I take.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you,
>
> FWIW, running Verify Disk Permissions is a waste of time...there's never
> any harm in actually repairing them.
>
> You can Google ACL to discover that it's an Access Control List. It's
> an extended way of managing permissions on a file or folder that's
> sup****ted in Leopard (maybe in Tiger, don't recall).
>
> There's really no action you can take, that I'm aware of, since that
> message from Disk Utility is informational -- it's telling you it found
> one when it didn't expect one, and does nothing about it.
>
> = Steve =
Thanks, clearer now. Must have had a
senior minute there; Google did not even occur to me at all.
Thanks again.
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