[Qgis-user] Trouble with overlay in 1.8.0

[gvSIGMac]

If you have admin privileges you can change permissions either with command+I or with the terminal. 
cd /Applications/QGiswhatever/Resources 
and once there i.e. 
chmod a+w ftools
or other, see

http://www.perlfect.com/articles/chmod.shtml
________________________________
Agustin

On 31/08/2012, at 13:18, Roxette <lucy.cradden at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> I agree, most of the plugins are in that folder. However, for 1.8, the fTools
> plugins are NOT in that folder! They are contained within the application
> (right click on QGIS in the applications folder, choose 'show contents',
> navigate to something called 'resources' and the fTools and GdalTools
> plugins are in there instead. They are *definitely not* in the normal
> plugins folder.
> 
> Current problem is that the permissions in the application won't let me save
> changes to these files....
> 
> 
> 
> Noli Sicad wrote
>> 
>> For Mac OS X, qgis plugins are in:
>> 
>> Finder -> Go
>> 
>> ~/.qgis
>> 
>> Then, have a look at python/plugins folder.
>> 
>> Noli
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/31/12, Roxette <lucy.cradden at .ac> wrote:
>>> Found it! I found someone who knows how Macs install things...and where
>>> they
>>> put their packages :-)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help
>>> Roxette
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm afraid I still cannot find FTools in
>>> /installation-directory-qgis/python/plugins. Like I said, all the other
>>> plugins are in that directory, but not FTools. I understand how to apply
>>> the
>>> patch, but only when I can find the file that requires the patch!
>>> 
>>> Roxette
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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