A LOT of problems with OSX Mavericks

• Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac.
• When the Mac OS X Utilities screen appears,select Utilities > Terminal.
• In the Terminal window type resetpassword and press Enter. A window will open behind Terminal that looks like this:

Great. Problem mostly solved. The Application Support folder in ~/Library needed an extra fix to make Adobe CC work (Permission errors in the Adobe folder).

Thank you for posting this very helpful tutorial! I am not able to do this on a MacBook Air with FileVault enabled. The startup volume simply does not appear in the window after I enter the resetpassword command in Terminal under OS X Recovery.

Does anyone know how to reset all of the home directory permissions and ACLs under FileVault 2?

TIA,

Rob

Apple released Safari 7 (included with Mavericks), Safari browser are having issues connecting to my work’s VPN. When connecting to the VPN, it will try to install the Network Connect client software then fail. I try:

Safari->Preferences->Security tab
“Manage Website Settings…” button in the bottom right
Highlight “Java” from the list.
Add your VPN site
Click the popup menu and select “Run in Unsafe Mode”

Then I can run Network Connect fine, but after 5-10 minutes it stops routing packets, I have to sign out and sign in again. Anyone else having this issue?

Hi guys,

how about this? Do you have similar experience? I tried to download Mavericks maybe 15 times (also from different connections), but the result was always this 😟 I couldn't upgrade it...

I have 10.8.5, 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4GB DDR3 memory, MBP mid 2009.

Thanks for help

Hi,

Can I try this with this problem:

My standard user can’t now change the dock or anything he used to set-up.

I tried to fix that by creating a new admin user and changed it for a standard one but steel the permissions are mixed up.

And I’ve noticed that the new apps like game center have 2 users "everyone" and no one can’t be deleted.

The disk repair doesn’t do anything(like always)…

I’ll appreciate any advice.

Did someone try sandbox or sparkle or another “kind of” app to reset the permissions?

I’m looking for a book to learn how it’s work in LINUX too.

Many thanks

I tried doing this but after a couple of hours the problem came up again and I had to reset it again, then it came up again, what do i do

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I envy you. You were lucky not to have installed mavericks. My macbook pro has become so bloody slow that I hate every minute of using it. Is there a way to uninstall mavericks and go back to older version of ios? Or is there a way to increase the speed?

Use the backup you made before you chose to install Mavericks and follow

OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version

Otherwise you can troubleshoot your current system

etresoft a long time contributer to Apple Support Communities wrote a very useful app he called etrecheck which helps in diagnosing many problems caused by third party installs etc.. Go to his website, read his information and from there download and run the program according to his instructions

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Copy and paste the results (preferably in a new Post as this one is quite old)

Pete

Been trying to reset my Home Directory Permissions & ACLs via the usual route of Utilities > Terminal etc but am finding out that the Reset button has turned into a ghost and can not be clicked. This is the first time I'm trying to reset the Home Directory Permissions & ACLs since upgrading to Mavericks. Anyone help would be appreciated.

I can't alter or delete files in my home folder. even the dropbox folder. I tried John Galt's solution which did not help. When trying to rename a file, I get a message that I do not have poermission to do that!! Does this mean my problem is not permissions related?

Yes, this mavericks hein?

The permissions are all mix-up, in my case I used onyx and after than checked all my files.... It took weeks