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Important
Please R.T.F.M. !
(Read The "Following" Manual,
in this page AND in
the "try" section)
If you generally use apps without reading the manual, this
time, my friend, it won't work. Simply because without the
following
instructions you won't be able to access the coolest
features included in Chop.
Introduction
Chop is basically a Cocoa droplet (for Mac OS X) that lets
you manage file/folder ownership and permissions. There're
a lot of
other utilities
that can perform similar tasks, but Chop has some particular
features that make it "unique" in its genre.
Main
features
Chop operates in three different modes:
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In default mode,
Chop lets you recursively modify the permissions of a
folder and its entire c ontent, treating
the enclosed
files and folders independently.
This means, for example, that with ONE simple
drag & drop
operation, you could set all the files (enclosed in the
folder you drag & drop onto Chop) to be rw-rw-r--
(664) and all the subfolders to be rwxrwxr-x (775). In
fact it
is often requested
to give executable privileges to folders and not to files.
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In
single mode, Chop lets you change ownership and permissions
of a single file or folder (without modifying the enclosed
files).
This mode can also be used as a sort of "Info panel" that
shows at a glance all the attributes (ownership and
permissions flags) of the desired file or folder.
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In
extra
mode, Chop
lets you delete
all the invisible ".DS_Store" files
enclosed in a particular folder,
with a single drag & drop operation. That's
useful for example when compressing
a folder
into a .zip archive
to send to
your PC friend, so that he won't say "Macs
suck, always putting that invisible crap…";
or before burning a hybrid (Mac&PC) CD.
In the "try" section you'll learn how
to use these modes.
A little bit of "grammar"
Let's define a new meaning for the verb "to chop":
from now
on, "chop" will mean "change ownership
and/or permissions". Thus,
if the app is chopping a file, it is actually changing its ownership
and/or permissions.
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