AW: How do you grant executing rights to your app for all users?

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Tiemo,

For applications that everybody uses, they should be in the Applications folder at the root of the system drive. There may also be an applications folder in each user account and applications in it are only available to that user.

Try this link,
http://www.jmu.edu/computing/mac/filestructureOSX.shtml

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:03 AM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> with chmod I set "rx" - read and execute rights. With the finder information
> menu I only see the options to set "read and write" and "read only". How do
> you set execution right via the info menu?
> Tiemo
> 
> 
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>> von Earthednet-wp
>> Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2014 16:55
>> An: How to use LiveCode
>> Betreff: Re: How do you grant executing rights to your app for all users?
>> 
>> Tiemo,
>> What I do is use the finder for this action. Single click on the app
> bundle,
>> use the menu at the top to "get info".  An info window comes up and there
> is a
>> little popup at the bottom where you can set access rights.  You should
> then
>> use the adjacent popup to make all files in the same folder have the same
>> permissions.
>> 
>> Google is your friend. At least in this case.
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13799
>> Bill
>> 
>> William Prothero
>> http://es.earthednet.org
>> 
>>>> On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:47 AM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" <toolbook at kestner.de>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> When creating a new standalone, this standalone doesn't have executing
>>> rights for other users on OS X.
>>> 
>>> Everytime after creating the standalone I grant all users executing
>>> rights with "chmod -R a+rx *" This works for me, but because my OS X
>>> knowledge is very limited, I am interested, if this is the straight
>>> forward way of doing it, or if I am missing something usual?
>>> 
>>> In one of my programs the standalone is a kind of a splash screen with
>>> some additional tasks and at the end I just go to a second stack,
>>> which is part of my app bundle. Now I experienced by accident, that I
>>> copied an updated version of this second stack into my finished
>>> bundle. When starting with the admin user, everything worked fine. But
>>> starting with a standard user, the splash stack just stopped at going
>>> to the second stack without message or error. After some research I
>>> found, that I forgot to execute the chmod again on my updated app and
>>> it appears that even a non executable stack within a bundle needs
>>> theses "rx" rights. Can you confirm this and is the manual chmod after
>>> each standalone build the way how to do this, or am I missing something
> more
>> straight forward?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any insights
>>> 
>>> Tiemo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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