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BatChmod
BatChmod 1.6.3
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Change file ownership & permissions.   Free
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    Renaud Boisjoly
BatChmod allows you to change any specific privilege or ownership without affecting the others (ie, changing the group without affecting the owner, or adding or removing a specific privilege without affecting all the others).
What's New
Version 1.6.3:
  • Minor localisation tweaks and a warning explaining the potential effects of removing xattrs (Extended attributes). Localized for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, French and Spanish.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.







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BatChmod User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 1.x:
(23)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(23)

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WonderWoofy reviewed on 05 Feb 2012
So this application does what it say it will do. But I feel as though if you already have such a basic understanding of permissions that you are able to navigate this app, you must have the technical skills to type chmod o+rwx.... I mean seriously, it means "change permissions, to owner add read write execute." Now how hard is that?
[Version 1.6.3]


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+124

Lesoth0 reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
Outstanding program that helped fix the dreaded Snow Leopard "custom" permissions locked drives issue.
[Version 1.6.3]


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+1

+36

Steven P. Jobs reviewed on 14 Sep 2010
It's been around forever. But it does it's minimal job as perfectly as you could expect.

If, like me, you don't want to learn how to do permissions customization via the command line with UNIX voodoo, BatChmod gets the job done for mere mortals.
[Version 1.6.3]


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+2

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Jim77566 commented on 19 Aug 2010
Great Program. Somehow all three of my external HD got set to "Custom". When I tried to open them got the message "you don't have permission". Could not change this using info, would not allow me to change from "custom" to "read or read/write". I ran BatChmod and walla, problem solved. Rate as ++10
[Version 1.6.3]


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Jim77566 commented on 19 Aug 2010
Great Program. Somehow all three of my external HD got set to "Custom". When I tried to open them got the message "you don't have permission". Could not change this using info, would not allow me to change from "custom" to "read or read/write". I ran BatChmod and walla, problem solved.
[Version 1.6.3]


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-14

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Idfc commented on 12 May 2010
This is an application that should be used with extreme caution. Actually not used at all. Playing Russian Roulette with permissions is not a good idea.

Most of the people I know who use this are actually Windows administrators, claiming to *know* the Mac, who can't be bothered to learn simple permission commands in the Terminal.

Essentially if you need this application then you probably shouldn't be doing what you're trying to do.
[Version 1.6.2]

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+5

+30
Lpeting replied on 12 May 2010
Although you should definitely know what you are doing with this application, I disagree that if you know how to do it in the terminal, you don't need this app. Some of use just prefer graphical interfaces, even if we can handle the terminal just fine.
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+4

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Fancy Nancy replied on 28 Jun 2010
IDFC if people learned to read they would know exactly how to use this tool and what it's purpose is for.

BatChmod works exactly as I need and want it to without wasting my time with terminal commands.

windows users enjoy wasting time with dos prompts and typing lines of code to make their computers work. I prefer to click my mouse and that was why I bought a Mac. I have better things to do.
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+1

+148
Zo219 replied on 29 Jun 2010
horse pucky.
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+1

+2
Filp commented on 02 Feb 2010
I'd been fighting (and, mostly, losing) permission battles with Leopard almost since the day I installed it. Constantly being told I could not do something, did not have access, need to enter password, etc. Then I got BC, ran it on the troublesome folders, and all is peaceful and quiet and happy again. Really useful app.
[Version 1.6]

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+70
Cerniuk replied on 27 Feb 2011
Agree, got ugly when we left Mac OS 9. Permission battles and problems are the Achilles heal of UNIX both for the user as well as the kernel.
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+4

+62

hugelshofer reviewed on 24 Jul 2009
As I am using this little app since ... (so long I forgot)

I agree a 100% with the previous 4 reviews!


It just works (if you know what you are doing)
As a Mac Admin I could not live without it!
I specially like the feature to remove ACLs
[Version 1.51]


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+4

+102

Formica reviewed on 09 Jul 2009
Fantabulous. Enabled me to fix the permissions of a Firewire drive that had somehow gotten screwed up, and now I can recover the data on the drive before erasing and reformatting it. I'm very pleased.
[Version 1.51]


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+4

+5
Chaser3275 commented on 09 Mar 2009
Simply Excellent!

It worked so well I just had to come on here to exclaim my love for this wonderful application!
[Version 1.51]


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+1

+62
hugelshofer had trouble on 16 Mar 2011
The bug I reported in December 2010 is still not fixed:

when resetting with "Cmd, K " you can set the desired rights for each (owner / group / others).

then next: mark the 1st option (Eigentümer und Rechte ändern)
- boom -
the whole adjustments you just made are gone and you have to start over again.
[Version 1.6.3]


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+14
DarylF2 had trouble on 13 Feb 2006
Version 1.36 won't launch on my Dual 2.5 GHz PowerMac G5 running 10.4.4. Deleting the preferences file didn't help. I reverted to 1.35 and it still works fine.
[Version 1.36]




Steve Hechler rated on 25 Dec 2011

[Version 1.6.3]




Miroslav Herman rated on 19 Oct 2011

[Version 1.6.3]



+62

hugelshofer rated on 16 Mar 2011

[Version 1.6.3]



+3

Jean-Loup rated on 08 Feb 2011

[Version 1.6.3]


Downloads:75,128
Version Downloads:17,145
Type:Utilities : System
License:Free
Date:28 Jun 2010
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price:Free0.00
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