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Q: Yosemite upgrade messed up file permissions

After upgraded to Yosemite, I am noticing a pattern:

 

Yosemite messed up my file permissions, and repairing the file permissions on my volume via Disk Utility did not help.

 

Mail:

 

Frequently crashing complaining about not being able to write to this file (Why was this not a problem before?!):

 

Application Specific Information:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Could not write plist to /Users/aaa/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application Support/Mail/OnlineAccountTypes/com.apple.updated.mailaccounts/MailAccounts.pli st'

abort() called

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

 

iCloud:

 

Checkboxes are grayed out in iCloud Preferences as signed-in. Once signed out, I can't sign back into iCloud.

I don't know what to do with adding the iCloud Drive..I can't seem to edit the darn iCloud preferences even though it shows I am signed in after a restart.

 

Personal text file under my Documents directory:

 

It said file is locked, although it is not. I can't edit my own personal text file after the upgrade! I went into the "Get Info", noticed "everybody" custom in the permissions. I don't remember setting custom everybody permissions my self.  I removed it. and added everybody read&write.. Then, only then, I was able to save changes.

 

I am Admin on my own iMac, by the way.

 

 

What a mess, Apple.  Very frustrated.

 

I am hoping  all the file permissions will be set properly with your next Yosemite patch and very very soon. Do I have to worry about file permissions with other files too!?

 

Should I re-install Yosemite to fix all of these issues, or what? How?

 

Thanks.

iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 5:08 AM

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  • by Davidkor,

    Davidkor Davidkor Nov 30, 2014 3:56 PM in response to arrjaay
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    Nov 30, 2014 3:56 PM in response to arrjaay

    My main admin login worked fine, but all other 5 users had the same issues:  repeated iCloud login requests, couldn't sync dropbox, couldn't access any OS X System prefs applications.

     

    The following worked for me:

    Use Cmd-R/ resetpassword/ and reset ACLs for every user (as noted above)

    Log into each account via Safe Mode (hold shift after system bootup tone)

    Login into each user and Set permissions for everyone to read/write (only way to add additional users to set permissions in next step)

    reboot: login to each user account and Set permissions for (Username) folder (and all subfolders) to read/write for admin & user and read-only for everyone

    Login into my account (admin): set permissions for ~Library folder (and all subfolders) to read/write for admin and my login

    reboot: login as admin,  repair disk permissions

    I was then able to log into each user's account separately and verify that all "seemed" back to normal (at least at first glance)


  • by www.andybird.net,

    www.andybird.net www.andybird.net Dec 11, 2014 1:09 AM in response to arrjaay
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    Dec 11, 2014 1:09 AM in response to arrjaay

    SAME Problem here.  Small business, wrong time to crash with clients due in 30 mins

     

    After a month of Yosemite success, little by little our sample banks and clients working files have suddenly sported little lock's on them causing crashes, errors and now we can't run anything.  Blergh.  Not the first time Apple have lost us our rent-money.

     

    I have tried repairing file permissions, but that's never worked in the history of Apple.

    I don't know what an ACL is (Can anyone clear that up?).

     

    (We are definitely looking at switching to windows PC's for late 2015)

  • by mikecardii,

    mikecardii mikecardii Dec 16, 2014 8:17 AM in response to arrjaay
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    Dec 16, 2014 8:17 AM in response to arrjaay

    If your disk is encrypted you need to unlock it from disk utility first in order for it to show up in that window. That may be your problem.

  • by demujer,

    demujer demujer Dec 19, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Davidkor
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    Dec 19, 2014 10:16 AM in response to Davidkor

    seemed easier to migrate user library folder part after part and only most needed prefs, this is disaster apple, the first time i had to recreate home folder EVER. i don't want to give everyone read/write permissions even temporary, it killed almost whole two months of my time and i am still not completely migrated. even worse is that i still not understand what exactly causes it, i want to have a possibility to use one home folder on different x86-based systems to experiment only by setting up the correct uuid:guid.

  • by ihatejonnytoo,

    ihatejonnytoo ihatejonnytoo Dec 31, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Davidkor
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    Dec 31, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Davidkor

    Thanks! This worked for me.  I'm curious about what I should set my to now that I have this issue fixed.

  • by webnessa,

    webnessa webnessa Jan 23, 2015 1:32 PM in response to mikecardii
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    Jan 23, 2015 1:32 PM in response to mikecardii

    Unlocking was the key step to show hard disk (startup volume) in reset password tool. Thank you, Mike.

  • by Piermex,

    Piermex Piermex Mar 30, 2015 10:03 PM in response to algamer
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    Mar 30, 2015 10:03 PM in response to algamer

    Same problem after upgrading to Yosemite 10.3.3 It´s a mess ! I'm not able to open any of my applications. (Chrome, Firefox, Office 2011, etc...)
    The only turn around I found is creating a new user where everything work...I do not understand why.

    The good point is that I folow Apple suggestion and make a full time machine backup before...

    What a loose of time ! I have a lot of work to do and everything is on my main account !

    I would like to see Apple get involve a little bit more as  I just see that this is not a new problem and I don't any real solutions !

    I already tried everything mentioned is this post without success...

    Any suggestion ?

  • by SoopRoop1,

    SoopRoop1 SoopRoop1 Mar 31, 2015 1:00 PM in response to algamer
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    Mar 31, 2015 1:00 PM in response to algamer

    I feel very fortunate! All my applications pretty much work (with some minor issues). My only real problem is that I cannot upgrade any applications! Whenever I do (e.g., Adobe Flash, FileMaker Pro, etc.), I get the "spinning ball of death" ("[install application] inactive"), and have to force quit. I thought it was the installer, so I uninstalled Flash - and now I have none! I'm not a "techie", and I have a business to run. Don't have time for this. This is NOT what I expected from Apple (been a faithful user for 27 years). Please, offer a patch ASAP & FIX THIS. Thank you.

  • by tyrobbie,

    tyrobbie tyrobbie Apr 3, 2015 9:06 AM in response to algamer
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    Apr 3, 2015 9:06 AM in response to algamer

    This fixed it for me!

     

    Root user and permissions

  • by surlycx,

    surlycx surlycx May 5, 2015 9:58 AM in response to Paul Cline
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    May 5, 2015 9:58 AM in response to Paul Cline

    I recently upgraded. Your post gave me an Idea. I didn't have to go into terminal because it seems only a few files were effected. cmnd-i, then set the permission to all admin and now I have my files back. For some reason it couldn't find my username anymore. But this seems to have solved the problem for me. Looks like others are having more extensive issues.

  • by danas_blia,

    danas_blia danas_blia May 27, 2015 10:30 AM in response to algamer
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    May 27, 2015 10:30 AM in response to algamer

    This post is a bit old, not sure what's the status with you, but I had a very similar problem: Cannot modify files after copying them from old backup to fresh Yosemite installation

    and found the solution that worked for me! http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31741/permissions-reset

    try it

  • by gmpricey,

    gmpricey gmpricey Jul 4, 2015 6:51 PM in response to danas_blia
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    Jul 4, 2015 6:51 PM in response to danas_blia

    I spent hours dealing with Google Chrome not working because it could not get into the "google" folder and this fixed it. THANK YOU!!!

  • by devi3g,

    devi3g devi3g Jul 5, 2015 7:50 AM in response to algamer
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    Jul 5, 2015 7:50 AM in response to algamer

    I  ran into   this   situation   lately .   Everything  else  seemed not to work , even  with  root permissions.    A simple  solution worked for  me.   I noticed that  my  user account  directory  (/Users/xxx)  was  actually locked.  You can see  this  if you open  the  folder  information in finder

    • ( ie   finder > right click> getInfo.
    • the checkbox "Locked" is  selected.

    Resolution : 

    - unselect the "locked"  checkbox.

     

    ... hope  this  works for  you and  saves you  time.   ....a little disappointed with  Apple  about this

  • by realdaddyb,

    realdaddyb realdaddyb Aug 7, 2015 10:35 PM in response to tyrobbie
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    Aug 7, 2015 10:35 PM in response to tyrobbie

    Yay! Finally found the fix. I just replaced my home folder name in both places in the command and voila!

  • by antnsgl67,

    antnsgl67 antnsgl67 Jan 28, 2016 2:35 PM in response to arrjaay
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    Jan 28, 2016 2:35 PM in response to arrjaay

    The issue I was having was not being able to open .docx files with word 2016. The error message was that I did not have permissions to open that file, it happened with all my .docx files.  If you do not see your disk try turning encryption off in my case it took just over an hour.  I had the same issue, after turning encryption off and booting into recovery via "cmd-r", open terminal, type password, and the HD was visible in the window, once I selected the HD my account was also available for selection.  Another rookie mistake I made during my adventure is that I went trough this process many times without success, at one point I waited 10 hours and the done button was grayed out.  I booted my Macbook pro into OS X and selected my HD, I did not have read&write permissions.  Once I gave my account full permissions I was able to repair the home folder permissions with a 15 minute wait time until completion. 

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