AppleShare: Permissions Not Copied Together with Folders



I need to copy a subset of a folder hierarchy from one volume on an
AppleShare server to another volume on the same server. A straight
copy-via-drag did not preserve the AppleShare attributes having to do with
access permissions.

What would you recommend I do to accomplish this copy without having to go
into each folder copied and reset the AppleShare attributes afterwards? If
it can't be done with a standard Apple product or procedure, is there a
third-party package or utility that would allow me to do this in one step,
short of dumping the folder tree out on a backup and then a subsequent
restore?

Currently, as of December 1991, there really isn't a clean way of preserving
access privileges for this type of copy operation.

The privileges are not stored with the files or folders, which complicates
the issue. Until a better way comes along, you're going to have to
manually reset them after copying.


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012