This small utility is a one-trick pony: it sets to the current user (and group) the ownership of one or more items selected in the Finder, recursively on contents.

Directions

• Download the workflow, expand the zip file
• Just double-click it to install, or copy it manually to ~/Library/Services/
• It will appear under Finder’s “Services” menu and contextual menu (right click).
• It will appear possibly also under Finder’s “Quick Actions” contextual menu (right click).

Contribute

This application is unlimited shareware, provided “as is”: you can use it without any limitation and without any warranty.

If you think it’s useful and want to contribute with a shareware fee, please use this link

Thank you very much for your support!

What the workflow does

• By using “chown -R” it changes items ownership to current user and group.
• Once ownership is fixed, “chmod -R u+rwX” is applied.

© and Credits

• Originale software by faqintosh.com
• Author: Marco Balestra
• It’s unlimited shareware, not public domain:
  in order to distribute it an explicit authorization from the author is required.
• Please do support shareware: it’s good, it’s useful, it’s necessary.