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Having a spot of bother running the updater on the mac. I get an error "cannot update" a .pigg file, something else is using it, and the updater aborts.
Any ideas?
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Exact error message:

"Cannot delete C:coh/piggs/bin.pigg some other program has it open. Aborting."
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have you tried killing the file manually and hitting the 'check files' (or whatever it's called) button?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
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Yeah, and it did the same thing on fonts.pigg. So I renamed the folder and am letting the updater re-download the whole shebang.
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Discovered the root of the problem: File ownership is held by the account I was in when I installed the program, not the user account I'm running it under. Le sigh. How to quickly change ownership of a bunch of files?
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And issue is resolved, thanks to a quirk of cp.
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two possible ways:
1) get info on the application, at the bottom there should be 'Sharing and Permissions', See if you can add your account to the list as 'Read & Write'.

if that doesn't work, crack open the command line.
2) Try:
cd to the directory you have the app in (this can be accomplished by typing "cd " and dragging the folder into the terminal window)
chown -R [your account name here] City of Heroes.app

You can find out your account name by typing "ls -l " and dragging any file you created/own into the terminal. The account name should be the 3rd thing listed.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
I tried chown; unfortunately you have to be logged in (or sudo'ed) as root to do that.

cp ended up fixing the issue, since it doesn't preserve file ownership - the new copy belongs to the account that ran the copy.

So I just copied the app directory over to a new folder, swapped names, and ran it. Everything went fine from there.
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