BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional

Back in the days when Apple still made hardware servers and an operating system to go with them (at $1K a copy) we used to have to deal with hundreds of user home directories in my line of work as a K-12 system admin. Most user's files got deleted at the end of the school year but some, mostly teachers, got carried over. We would have to back them up and restore them. Invariably there would be permissions errors for some people along the way and the utility we turned to time and again was BatchMod. It's a GUI for changing permissions on files and folders (including the files in them). I needed to change some file permissions this afternoon and when I went to download the app, I found it still available from third-party sites but the developer is nowhere to be found and doesn't appear to be maintaining it any longer.

I downloaded it from another site and tested it on files and folders in macOS 14.6.1 Sonoma. It was able to change the read, write and execute for owner, group and everyone on a folder and the enclosed files. Unfortunately, the feature that would force empty the trash is no longer functional. Although the download site claims it was last updated in 2023, the actual date on the files is from 2016.

Don't download this and attempt to use BatchMod on system files. If you know what you are doing and know how to us chmod (or the Get Info modal in some cases) to change permissions in case things don't work out, you may get some limited use from BatchMod. The last released edition is 1.7b5. I downloaded it at Softonic.