Apple crow that their OS is the most advanced and use friendly in the world. This is clearly not the case — any OS that requires a user to frequently address permissions issues and to tinker under the bonnet via terminal is not user friendly or advanced. So much!! I was having problems with my contents still showing from a folder I restricted access to. This totally worked to fix the problem!
User permissions shown in Terminal. Before you go After spending over 20 years working with Macs, both old and new, theres a tool I think would be useful to every Mac owner who is experiencing performance issues. You may also like. Uncategorized How to set up two-factor authentication November 4, About the author. View All Posts. Click here to post a comment. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Thanks for the above Roland. After restarting, spotlight wanted to start indexing from scratch and my offsite backup Crashplan suddenly seemed convinced that it needed to backup 30 gigs of data… The computer seems to be working OK and the permissions all check out as being correct when I view them in the finder just like your example above but this has all left me feeling rather confused about what is going on here.
Spotlight is also incapable of searching an attached drive — that is just madness. Ho hum. We value your privacy We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. Cookie Settings Accept All. Manage consent. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. So I trust Apple's article and accept this answer — thanks. Gordon Davisson Gordon Davisson Please, can you elaborate on origins of the wrong rules, overrides and additions?
If not within the Lion startup volume, then are there paths to files elsewhere? Or are some things hardcoded in diskutil? I would disagree with it not being optimal but not necessarily downvote this either since the repair permissions simply looks at the Apple receipts on the volume to be repaired and enforces them on the filesystem.
You could have a corrupted OS on the Recovery HD - but this is a fairly basic exercise and in practice - I've not seen this cause problems - just that it will surface problems with a filesystem or failing storage.
BTW, I don't know exactly what's read from the volume being repaired vs. Briar Dill Briar Dill 1. Details will add value to this answer. Which version of the operating system was used to perform the repairs? Which version of the OS was supposedly repaired? And so on … — Graham Perrin. The Overflow Blog.
Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related 3. Hot Network Questions. Nothing has even somewhat worked. And then I found this quick fix and it fixed everything within 2 minutes.
It started more than 15 minutes ago. I have a MacBook Pro early with Lion. Should I stop this? Huge thanks for the tip. After upgrading to OS X Even when I entered the password, the files vanished immediately when moved into the Trash and the Trash still appeared empty.
Back to normal. In the Reset Password Window there is no volume to select and all the other buttons are greyed out and therefore un-selectable. Any suggestions? Is your HD protected? After that it should work fine. After three hours of pulling my hair out in frustration I read this with a huge sigh of relief. I cannot say thank you enough. Big hugs. What does that mean — should I create a new user and move my static files over?
Should I use the migration utility — or will migration copy my bad permissions and ACLs? OS Started because of intermittent restarts when Mac was sleeping.
I started doing this last night and i wake up this morning to find the process is still going! What do i do! This solved some weird problems with textedit and quicktime player beachballing at every start. My spotlight was only showing web results and wikipedia and no drives and i didnt have permissions to delete my spotlight preferences file. In fact, this is a reset of user home folder permissions to default settings and so it also resets possibly intentional changes to file permissions in user folder.
It has been possible even before Lion, just access to the Password utility was a bit easier. And that to repair permissions you have not to restart from another HD or partition but to do it using your own main system boot disk…. Might be important to mention the purpose of repair permissions on your home folder. In my experience running Repair Permission is one of the most overused, but least effective troubleshooting steps. Or, maybe, if someone was messing around with their permissions in the Get Info field on a volume or something.
Or if a folder gets moved from one home folder to another — oddball situations like that. And then there are folks like Larry above who will probably gain nothing for his time spent on this. Chances are he may even screw something up by resetting the ACLs and canceling the rest of the process. But yes I agree, a lot of suggestions to repair permissions are nothing more than a punt.
Yes we can. My macbook pro is telling me that for verifying permissions the estimated time is a whopping 11 HOURS!!! Is this normal? Nothing has been normal about this machine for a long long time. Are these standard plugins loaded initially with the original software? That is not normal. Let the whole process complete before interrupting it.
A possible solution may be to back up your Mac using Time Machine, then reformat and reinstall OS X, then restore from a backup. Or take it to Apple and see what their support suggests. Both sets of permissions are independent of each other. Absolutely true, but I wish Apple had made it easier to repair Home permissions. A reboot is necessary? Feels like Windows. Name required. Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Marissa G Vignali says:. August 26, at am. August 11, at pm. David says:. November 30, at am. Brian says:. March 7, at am. Fred says:. July 23, at pm. Glenn says:. June 23, at pm. Trish says:. October 23, at pm. Peter Mitchell says:.
April 18, at am. Joseph Lemons says:. February 8, at pm. April 23, at pm. Kristen says:. January 31, at pm.
0コメント