Getting rid of “ACL found but not expected” errors when repairing permissions
June 15th, 2009
I’ve seen quite a lot of people complaining about these errors, and even though they don’t really hurt anything they can be very annoying.
So, in my very expansive free time I devised and wrote a program that will take the error messages from repairing (or verifying) permissions and remove all ACL from the files that are reported.
It is written in Python, and runs through from command line. As you shouldn’t trust any random person’s code to just run on your computer, I recommend opening the script in your favourite text editor before letting it steal all your passwords, just to be safe.
Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for anything the program does, use it at your own risk. It’s very likely to reduce your computer to a smoldering pile of melted plastic and spare parts.
Download removeUnexpectedACL.zip (outdated, see below)
All kidding aside, it’s pretty harmless, and damn are those ACL errors ever annoying.
Update: I changed the name. Download it here instead.
Update #2: removeUnexpectedACL has been renamed “ACLr8″ and now has its own page here.
Tags: acl, chmod, disk utility, diskutil, error, Mac, permissions, program, Python, repair, unexpected, verify
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