I recently switched from the Adobe Dreamweaver syncronize functionality to FFS. I like it very much. Simple and fast. I use it to syncronize my website from the local staging server to the production Unix server.
What I do not really understand is how FFS chooses the file permissions on syncronized files. I seems that overwriting creates the original permissions. New files always have 0644, regardless of the parent directory. This is fine for most situations. But a transfered executable file needs to be fixed after the transfer.
A great new feature would be a dialog to set permissions to directories and to one or multiple files. Similiar to the functionality from FileZilla. See attachment. Any chance to get that?
Manfred
Request: Control Unix file permissions
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TLDR: Maybe instead of the "permissions matrix", better have FFS preserve the old permissions on overwrite and use 0644 only for newly created files?
TLDR: Maybe instead of the "permissions matrix", better have FFS preserve the old permissions on overwrite and use 0644 only for newly created files?
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Alternative: Just take over permissons from parent folder?and use 0644 only for newly created files? Zenju, 12 Nov 2020, 18:47
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Hi, sorry for my late reply. Yes, for overwriting, the permission should always be preserved. For new files, the parent folder permission is fine. But, it would be great to be able to right-click on the files and have a dialog box similar to the one shown above. Permissions of new files (and sometimes existing ones as well) must be changed sometimes. And then staying in FFS would be cool. Currently I need to switch applications to achive a permission change.
