Hello, I have just puchased a new MAC MINI OSX 10.? for the express purpose of developing an Ant application for MACs. I have downloaded the Ant software which includes a project file for Xcode.
I have opened the project file with Xcode and have found a couple of compile errors which have been detailed in some posts in this forum, so, no problem there. However, when I try to edit the source code, I get a box pop up which says that the file is locked for editing. When I try to unlock the file, I get another pop up box saying that I don't own the files and therefore they cannot be unlocked.
This seems a straight forward permissions problem. However, I do own the project file and I have changed the permissions on the file to 777. The project file itself is a compressed binary file containing the souce code files within it. It is the permissions for these internal files that I need to change.
I have tried dragging a file from the project to the desktop and edit it there, but I get the same permission problem eventhough I own the file and have changed the permissions to 777. If I open the file directly with 'vi' in a terminal, it is a binary file. If I open it with an editor, I get the code but cannot edit it.
On the Mac forum, this problem is identified and a solution was to copy the code inside a file and paste it in a new file and rename it with the original name. I have tried to do this, But I have been foiled by the newly created file going ito the wrong place in the project and not where I want to replace the original file. Once created, the new file cannot be moved to another directory within the project.
I am new to Mac's but I did not expect to get defeated by not being able to edit a file.
Can anyone tell me how I can unlock and edit these source files?
Many thanks.
