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repair permisisons Catalina

What is best way to repair permissions on Catalina ?

No idea why, but they have got screwed up, and I cannot set RWX permissions using "Get Info", Message says I do not have privileges

I am running


diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`


Seems to be taking forever !

Macbook Pro, mid 2014, 15" Retina, 480Gb SDD, 16GB RAM,

Catalina 10.15.2


Thanks


Posted on Dec 14, 2019 7:44 PM

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Posted on Dec 15, 2019 5:39 AM

Where are you trying to change those permissions.

Many areas of the OS cannot be modified.

The permissions repair only affects your home folder.


Did you get that message when you ran the first part of this article: Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support

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Dec 15, 2019 5:39 AM in response to WildRocketAjax

Where are you trying to change those permissions.

Many areas of the OS cannot be modified.

The permissions repair only affects your home folder.


Did you get that message when you ran the first part of this article: Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support

repair permisisons Catalina

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