Changing File Ownership

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#1

Hi
Can someone tell me if it’s possible to use AppleScript to change the Group Privileges of a file from Read Only to Read/Write - if so how do you do it?
Thanks!!

#2

Sorry, I meant the files privileges, not ownership…

#3

This might work:

tell application "Finder" to set group privileges of file "path:to:file" to read write

– Rob

#4

Or, of course:

do shell script "chmod g+w " & quoted form of posix path of theFile
#5

Thanks for that - I’m using a watched folder rather than file path so (e.g., on adding folder items to etc etc) Can you suggest how I would do this? I’ve experimented but it doesn’t seem to work
Thanks
Howard

#6

This should work.

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	repeat with this_item in these_items
		tell application "Finder" to set group privileges of this_item to read write
	end repeat
end adding folder items to
#7

Worked perfectly thanks!!