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How to prevent accidental removal of certain files and folders in Mac OS X

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On Mac OS X, what is a good way of preventing accidental removal of certain files and folders? I still need to be able to read those files and folders and to add new files to those folders, but I want to jump through hoops if I want to remove any of them.

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You could check the "locked" checkbox in the "Get Info" dialog. ctrl-click or secondary mouse button on the file -> "Get Info" -> check the "locked" checkbox. Another way of protecting the file would be setting the immutable flag via command line: Cā€¦

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