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sudo chown fails with operation not permitted

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I have found similar questions here, but the answers provided to those questions do not resolve my problem. If I do: I get an operation not permitted error. The general solution to prior errors was: to clear a lock flag. However, after doing this, I still cannot chown the file. I have also tried: i…

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sudo chown <username> main.m

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Fix for: sudo chown fails with operation not permitted

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Mac files can be protected in four three different ways that I'm aware of: Standard Unix ownerships and permissions like r/w/x for user/group/others that you see with and fix with and . File flags like and that you see with and fix with . The old Fi…

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