Hi everyone, hope you're doing well and staying safe. When I've downloaded files to Finder and I look at the info section, I'm seeing a check box that says locked the check box is unchecked. However, to the very right of this button there is a button saying more and next to that to the left there is a button that says unlock. When I press the unlock button, the finder asks me for my password/touch ID which I input. Then when I look at the locked button, it says unlocked, however when I close the info window and go back to it the button then refer to its locked state. Does anyone know how I can fix this please? I've already done a Google search and some articles from about 13 years ago came up referencing Automator and Shell scripts but surely there must be an easier way of doing this? Thank you very much for your help everyone :-)
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File locking and permissions in macOS
In the Info window for a file or folder in Finder, the "Locked" checkbox, if selected, prevents the file from being edited or deleted, effectively changing your permission level to "Read only." The Lock button in the "Sharing and permissions" section, on the other hand, is locked by default so that more granular permission settings for the item, such as other users' permission levels, can't be changed without first authenticating as an administrator.
When downloading a file, the default permission should be "Read and write," meaning you should be able to open, modify, and delete it without needing to change any permissions.
Also note that this is only…
Also note that this is only a visual/ui level protection with finder and nothing at the file system level, IE it's not the graphical chmod, in terminal and 3rd party program you can still mess up with everything. As far as I understand it at least.