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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1.36 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.
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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).
WonderWoofy reviewed on 05 Feb 2012
+124
Lesoth0 reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
+1
+36
Steven P. Jobs reviewed on 14 Sep 2010
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.
+2
+2
+2
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-14
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.
+5
+30
+4
+28
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.
+1
+148
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+2
+70
+4
+62
hugelshofer reviewed on 24 Jul 2009
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
+4
+102
Formica reviewed on 09 Jul 2009
+4
+5
It worked so well I just had to come on here to exclaim my love for this wonderful application!
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+62
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.
+14
Steve Hechler rated on 25 Dec 2011
Miroslav Herman rated on 19 Oct 2011
+62
hugelshofer rated on 16 Mar 2011
+3
Jean-Loup rated on 08 Feb 2011