Sorry for the garbled message folks. What I mean to say so below: For those who run into the problem in which a folder rename doesn't work, go to the get info menu, then arrow to the more info item and expand it, and go down to the permissions table, interact on it and change the permission to read/write. Mine was set to read-only for some reason.
On Aug 29, 2010, at 4:31 PM, David McLean wrote: > permissions from read only to read/write. That allowed me to use the normal > rename procedure, press enter and enter the new name. > Strange problem.Ok what I determined for those who run into this problem, you > need to go into the get info menu and open up the more information section > and go down to the permissions table, activate it, and change the folder > On Aug 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> That's odd. I rename folders I copy from dvd volumes and cd volumes all the >> time. I wonder if somehow you can change the state from read only to normal? >> Sarah Alawami >> MSN: marri...@gmail.com >> aim: marri...@gmail.com: >> >> website: http://music.marrie.org >> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 >> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com >> >> On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:38 AM, David McLean wrote: >> >>> Thanks. I thought that was the case but for some reason the particular >>> folder I'm trying to rename doesn't seem to allow that whereas normally it >>> works. I think that is because I copied the folder from a cd volume. So >>> I'm thinking the folder is read-only or something similar. I'll have to >>> look into it a bit more. >>> On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:02 PM, John Sanfilippo wrote: >>> >>>> In Snow Leopard, I just press return on the folder name, type the new name >>>> and press return again, just like renaming a file. >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:54 AM, David McLean wrote: >>>> >>>>> Strange as it seems, I haven't had a reason to do this on the Mac yet but >>>>> I noticed today there doesn't seem to be any way to rename a folder. >>>>> This seems strange to me but does anyone know how to do this? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
