Yummy Software

hey there -

just got the email that 1.5 was released and downloaded it.  congrats on such a fine job!

one thing I noticed with the new release is that the "Icons reflect permissions" preference seems to be buggy.  Starting with the 1.5 release I just downloaded, when I log into my site the icons indicate that all the files and folders are "locked" - even though they aren't since I am the owner and I am able to edit/modify them. But somehow the wrong icons are being displayed in the window.

Anyone else having this problem?  Obviously one needs to have the "Icons reflect permissions" preference checked...

Hey :)

That's interesting about the icon permissions display. paulc brought it up as an issue a couple of days ago, but I didn't get a chance to check it out before 1.5 was released. I'm surprised it works any differently than the 1.1.5 release - I certainly didn't change anything in that area at all!

If I find something, I'll include it in the inevitable 1.5.1 update

FWIW, the bug seems to appear only when the "Numeric Permissions, Owner/Group" is checked (in addition to "Icons reflect permissions" being checked).

In other words, if I uncheck the "Numeric Permissions, Owner/Group" preference, the icons are correct. But if I check "Numeric Permissions, Owner/Group", most if not all the icons display as "locked".

hope that helps...

tu11ym0n - you found it :)

Fixed!

Not really... I've always had numeric off, my intro to Unix permission was the traditional alpha designators. Oh, I'm waiting for the beta because I tried turning Numeric on and off and I get the numeric codes either way.

Argh, I suppose I need to try and plist toss... much later as the stomach is growling and the bod is hurting...

Weird. Everything works fine here.

Let me know if dumping the plist file sorts it out. The icon display bug is definitely only when the Numeric Permissions option is enabled.

Oh it gets stranger... dumping the plist seems NOT to change the behavior of Numeric permissions displaying on my server-side display even with the perf off! Something really  subtle is going on here, I hope you like mysteries!

Take a look in your Transcript - does the server supply numerical permissions?

Hmmm, yes it does. Alpha and numeric.

A good assumption (as I don't control the server, it's my web hosting place) is that I can not control this.

I had gone back to my previous plist as I wanted to "document" how all my prefs were set up. The "wrong icon" is back. I'll go and toss it again, and re-set my prefs as I had before. I'll leave Numeric in Yummy off.

Ahhh, something else IS going on. I tossed the old plist and manually recreated my prefs as before; now I have incorrect icons. If I leave all prefs at default, I see correct icons.

Is it better I send you screen caps of each section of the prefs or the whole plist?

Ok, now I see better; prefs don't matter; the default prefs have Icons Reflect Permission off. So I was lulled into think that fresh prefs solved the issue; they don't. All I have to do is change that one pref to on and I get the wrong icons.

Soprry to be a pain about this...

Ah, well the alpha and numeric representation in the listing is non-standard, and probably confusing Yummy.

Please send me an FTP Transcript of your session once you've seen incorrect icons. I can then examine the listing data to see what's going on.

Thanks!