File Walker

[Bob Sneidar]

How about getting the detailed files? There may be information in the details where you can discern whether or not a user would be able to see the files.

Bob S


On Sep 30, 2014, at 17:04 , JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> I understand there are things a normal person
> cannot and should not access.  My point was
> the normal person should not see that when
> they are accessing files and folders.  They do
> not normally see it in the finder so they should
> not see it in a program I release.  I am not going
> to change their file permissions and I do not
> want to notify them of it.  So if it gives me any
> problems in a normal situation I need to think
> there are a lot of users who know less and
> care less about it than me and it will just be
> a problem for them.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> JB wrote:
>> 
>>> If I bought your program and you gave me that technical
>>> answer and I wasted my time trying to figure out why your
>>> program will not access my folders and examine permissions
>>> or other things when others do access them I would not be
>>> happy.
>>> 
>>> On that basis for the very few like me who will have
>>> a problem I will not use it.
>> 
>> OS X is such a program.
>> 
>> It's a Unix thang.
>> 
>> Poke around in the Finder enough and you'll find all sorts of things you can't access.
>> 
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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