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Bug 151681

Summary:	NetBeans folder in Applications is read only for admin
Product:	installer	Reporter:	Petr Chytil <pchytil>
Component:	Mac Native	Assignee:	Yulia Novozhilova <ynov>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	kganfield
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Mac OS X
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Petr Chytil 2008-10-29 09:45:09 UTC

The NetBeans folder, which is created by installer in /Applications folder on Mac is read only for administrator. This
prevents user from creating alias (shortcut) of NetBeans.app in this folder. I've checked other folder, which were
created by other application's installers and it simply doesn't seem to be common practice to create R/O subfolders in
Applications.

Comment 1 Yulia Novozhilova 2008-11-19 20:12:08 UTC

Fixed: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/84c7b358e34d

Comment 2 Quality Engineering 2008-11-20 04:44:30 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *200811200201* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/84c7b358e34d
User: Yulia Novozhilova <ynov@netbeans.org>
Log: [Mac OS installer] Fix for #151681 NetBeans folder in Applications is read only

Comment 3 Petr Chytil 2008-11-20 07:40:00 UTC

thanks for the fix, verified in this build's installer:

Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 200811200201)
Java: 1.5.0_16; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_16-133
System: Mac OS X version 10.5.5 running on i386; MacRoman; en_US (nb)
Userdir: /Users/petr/.netbeans/dev