Mac OSX Standalone App: Fixup Broken App Permissions

Hi All – been a while. I just downloaded an update for the awesome Hermes App and ran into the same problem I ran into before – it’s a Mac OSX standalone app (directory) you can execute as a local user. So how do you take such a beast and put it into your /Applications folder?

1. Here’s the original listing downloaded from the app site:

   CloudrasLLCsMBP:Downloads l.abruce$ ls -la Hermes.app/
   total 0
   drwx------@  3 l.abruce  staff   102 Sep 19 21:55 .
   drwx------+ 49 l.abruce  staff  1666 Sep 20 21:55 ..
   drwx------@  8 l.abruce  staff   272 Jun 24 08:13 Contents

   As can be seen, it’s setup to run just for my local account.

2. Copy the files to Applications:

   sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/Hermes.app /Applications/

3. Now set the permissions – note the process for each type:

   
   find . -type d -print -exec chmod 755 {} \;
   find . -type f -perm 600 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;
   find . -type f -perm 700 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \;
   find . -type l -print -perm 700 -exec chmod -h 777 {} \;

4. The final result:

   CloudrasLLCsMBP:Downloads l.abruce$ sudo find /Applications/Hermes.app -exec ls -lad {} \;
   drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root  admin  102 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app
   drwxr-xr-x@ 8 root  admin  272 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents
   drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root  admin  102 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/_CodeSignature
   -rw-r--r--@ 1 root  admin  10265 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources
   drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root  admin  136 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Frameworks
   drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root  admin  170 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Frameworks/Growl.framework
   lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  admin  22 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Frameworks/Growl.framework/Growl -> Versions/Current/Growl
   [...output cut...]
   -rw-r--r--@ 1 root  admin  27238 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Resources/volume_down.icns
   -rw-r--r--@ 1 root  admin  4809 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Resources/volume_up.png
   -rw-r--r--@ 1 root  admin  1560 Sep 20 22:16 /Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/Resources/zzs.png

This corrects the problem – and the app will now appear in the Launchpad for all users.

So nothing earth-shaking, just some Linux commands.