You are not the first to experience and report this using Sonoma 14.0. As I understand it, Apple is notorious for changing permissions without any notification. Please reference this thread:
OSCAR stuck on opening
Also, I would like to change the title of your thread to, "
OSCAR Problems on Mac Sonoma 14.0", if it is alright with you. I know you will not be the last to experience this.
First my disclaimer, "I'm the village idiot on a Mac".
I would look at the permission settings on your Documents/OSCAR_Data directory. Not knowing your computer knowledge, I'm going to be a little basic in my description below.
Nomenclature:
File/Directory permission listing: r =
read, w =
write, x = e
xecute
These permission levels are expressed as a value r = 4, w = 2, and x = 1 to set them to on. To read and write would be: 4+2 = 6, read-write-execute = 4+2+1=7
Order of a file's permissions: Owner-Group-Others - each of these categories has the 3 permissions listed above.
Mac Terminal Commands (all commands are executed by pressing the Return/Enter key)
Open a Terminal and change to the Documents directory:
cd Documents
OSCAR_Data/Profiles Permissions for a Mac
[b]ls -l OSCAR_Data/Profiles = drwxr-xr-x (755) (The "d" stands for "directory")
(The "-l" is a lowercase "L")
Meaning: Owner(7) =
read-
write-e
xecute | Group(5) =
read--e
xecute | Others(5) =
read-e
xecute
List with the read-write-execute format:
ls -l
Listing the OSCAR_Data directory;
ls -l OSCAR_Data
pad Result:
padpad drwxrwxr-x 2 cn staff 4096 Jul 24 12:00 layoutSettings
padpad drwxr-xr-x 7 cn staff 4096 Oct 8 09:47 logs
padpad -rw-r--r-- 1 cn staff 3351 Oct 8 09:47 Preferences.xml
padpad drwxr-xr-x 6 cn staff 4096 Sep 24 15:05 Profiles
padpad -rw-r--r-- 1 cn staff 365 Sep 11 16:50 profiles.xml
To list permissions only by octal value:
stat -f "%OLp OSCAR_Data"
Result: 755
List both r-w-x and octal:
stat -f "%Sp %OLp %N OSCAR_Data"
padpad drwxr-xr-x 755 OSCAR_Data
Command to change permissions
sudo chmod 775 -R OSCAR_Data
* This will allow both the owner and the group to have complete access to these files. In case the Mac has given OSCAR a different owner or group designation, you might try using the value, 777. This will allow everybody complete access to this directory.
* Linux users reading this:
padpad On a Linux box, the default permission settings are drwxrwxr-x (775) on the OSCAR_Data directory
padpad The
stat command options are different for a Linux box.
padpad A Mac does not have the "
ll" command, thus you have to use the "
ls -l" in its place.
Let us know if this helped or not.
Good luck!
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Red[/b]
