Q: Disk untilities won't clear permissions after running. They just stay there. What's the problem?
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Sep 17, 2013 8:01 PMby nbar,What permissions? Usually this is related to an ACL on a folder/file.
See:
Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages you can safely ignore
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Sep 17, 2013 8:07 PMby mikefrompipe creek,I run Disk Utilities and run "first aid" and "repair". On the log, it shows permissions problems. A lot of them. Although it says they are corrected, I run it again and they show up again. Why don't they get corrected and disappear? I don't know what ACL is .
Mike
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Sep 18, 2013 2:00 AMby Klaus1,As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = readw = write
x = executeable programdrwxrwxrwx
| | |
| | all other users not in first two types
| |
| group
|
owner
a little more infoBefore the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.
If you are running Panther or Tiger:
