Permissions on Mac

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 28 september 2017 19:54:44 CEST Eric Beversluis wrote:
> What permissions should the .gnucash files have on Mac? Some seem to be 644
> while the older ones seem to be 777. I copied them all to Mac from Linux
> using a FAT32 disk, so I’m not sure they all came over properly.
> 
> 777 seems wrong, but 644 seems not enough, though the .gnucash file on my
> Desktop seems to open OK as 644. “Group” seems to be something called
> “Staff."

644 should be sufficient. The '6' in  that number means the owner is able to 
read from and write to this file. Changing it to '7' would add execution 
permissions. But a data file should never be executable, so 7 would be too 
much. The two '4's mean the file is readable by any member of the "Staff" 
group (the first '4') and everone else as well (the second '4'). So depending 
on how much you trust other users on your computer, you could in theory reduce 
the permissions to only '600' as well.

On the other hand if you're the only user it probably doesn't matter that 
much... 600 is in any case the absolute minimum to work with the file 
yourself.

Geert