Modern, pared-down successor to Lagente's BatChmod

The abandoned (but still eminently useful) BatChmod is:

"a utility for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X. It allows the manipulation of ownership as well as the privileges associated to the Owner, Group or others. It can also unlock files in order to apply those privileges and finally, it can remove any ACLs added to a folder or file under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or better."

Ohanaware's Permissions Reset has a similar if simpler goal; it:

"can reset the owner, group, access permissions, Access Control Lists (ACLS), Extended Attributes (including Quarantine) to default settings, simply by dragging an app, folder or file into Permissions Reset, selecting what you'd like reset, then clicking on 'Reset'."

BatChmod archive:

• Homepage
• Instructions
• BatChmod Express
• Downloads:
  • BatChmod 1.7b5: "Runs on Mac OS X 10.11 and fixes Sparkle vulnerability"
  • BatChmod 1.6.3: "For Mac OS X 10.5 & up (including 10.11 El Capitan)"
  • BatChmod 1.51: "For Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6"
  • BatChmod 1.37: "For previous system versions as 1.5 has not been tested on any other system, though it may work."
• VersionTracker.com listing for nostalgia

❧ 2025-12-28