Mac User - help me please! (permissions problem)

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filmguy123

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OK, so I wrote a bunch of documents on my MacBook Pro, and I moved them over to my Mac Tower desktop system. They are office 2008 .doc files. Anyway, when I open a file, change it, and go to save it, it tells me "this file is read only" and I have to save a copy. Problem is, there's like 20 documents, and I've had this sort of problem before.

I am pretty sure that this is a permissions problem, where I have read access to the files, but not write access. How can I change this for these files, and ANY files, that I bring over from my laptop in the future?

And, for a group of files, not just one file...?
 
Right click file;

Get Info;

down at the bottom, Ownership & Permissions, change to read and write
 
That's strange that it's coming up as read only.
Anyways, on the file, right click or control click > info and look for Ownership & Permissions, and there you can change it to read and write.
I'm not sure how to batch change it though, but it's pretty quick to change it.

EDIT: ah, some beat me to it...
 
oh sorry, I didn't clarify. Yes, I know how to do that. I meant for all 20... like a batch change. I can change them one at a time but that is a pain...
 
I believe when there are more than a certain number of documents, If you select them all and do an apple I, you can change the option for that group of files in a single information window.
 
SPZ said:
I believe when there are more than a certain number of documents, If you select them all and do an apple I, you can change the option for that group of files in a single information window.
Click to expand...

Anything over 10 items opens the multiple items info window (BTW - is there a way to use the "multiple items info window" when selecting 10 or less items?).

But it just says "you have mixed permissions"
 
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