Alias that cannot have its name changed?

I was just going through my hard drive catalog. There is an alias
entitled "User Guides And Information." I wanted to change its name to
something more meaningful to me. I could not. To move to the trash, I
would have to use my password. I was able to duplicate the alias and
change its name easily. The new alias worked.

I looked at information for the two aliases, original and copy. In the
original, the "Locked" box was grayed out while the copy had an active
Locked box.

What is that all about? How can one change the status of such a box?

Bill

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In article <SalmonEgg->,
Salmon Egg <> wrote:

> I was just going through my hard drive catalog. There is an alias
> entitled "User Guides And Information." I wanted to change its name to
> something more meaningful to me. I could not. To move to the trash, I
> would have to use my password. I was able to duplicate the alias and
> change its name easily. The new alias worked.
>
> I looked at information for the two aliases, original and copy. In the
> original, the "Locked" box was grayed out while the copy had an active
> Locked box.
>
> What is that all about? How can one change the status of such a box?
>
> Bill

The file didn't belong to your account. Sometimes you can change
ownership in the "Get Info" window's "Sharing & Permissions" area. It's
a bit buggy.

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In article <492c2eb3$0$4032$>,
Anic297 <> wrote:

>
> If you are on Mac OS X, you certainly don't have the right permissions.
> Look at the "Get Info" window (select the alias, then Command-I) and
> look under "Permissions". If you have only read access, you can't
> rename, lock, unlock or otherwise modify the item without entering an
> admin password (and the Finder does not even ask you for a password for
> everything).
> Try to set <you> as the owner.

It is now too late for me to try some of these things out. After making
a copy, I did use my password to move the alias to the Trash. When I
moved it to the Desktop, I could do all kinds of things with it.

Thank you.

Bill

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