El capitan 10.11.4 permissions are completely messed up - basically disk util shows pages of folders/files with wrong permissions!! Please Help!!

User File Ownership - Reset see post by Linc Davis

You may need to rebuild permissions on your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: ‘resetpassword’ (without the ’s), hit return, and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.

Repair User Permissions

Just got a used iMac w El Capitan and went insane with permission problem. Not exactly like yours but I couldn't do any simple thing, like create a folder, rename a file, move a file, move to trash, etc., even though I am the only Admin! I really was just about to return to vendor but found a solution on another forum. What I did was right-click on the Hard drive icon showing on the desktop, then Get Info, then unlock padlock at bottom (have to use your admin and password), then I created myself as a User (Even though I was there as System I think); I did this just by clicking the + icon on bottom, then I showed up as another User (it showed my Computer name with (Me) next to it. May be a longshot but give it a try.

Hope someone will be able to give you some right advice.

In the meantime, you can open this link posted on the forum that helped my issues not directly related to your permissions blues.

It will not do any damage but it may help.

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/12/04/how-when-why-to-reset-the-pram-smc-on -your-mac/#gref

There are lots of other "users" in OS X, apart from yourself. Lots of system processes have their own "user", many of which start with an underscore character.

OS X uses a complex system of users and permissions to keep things safe and tidy. Unless you are having any specific problems, the chances are that everything is fine. You say you have had problems: What problems, exactly?

As said, you can't repair/verify permissions on El Capitan's Disk Utility app. Even when you could, it usually did nothing of any benefit, even if it did produce an extensive list of logged messages.

Repair permissions is not even present in Disk Utility in El Capitan.

None of the screenshots you posted seems to pertain to Disk Utility.

Unless you have specific problems, such as not being able to access files that you should be able to, just use your mac and don't worry. The system handles permissions for you.

If you can, post a screenshot that shows there are wrong permissions. I see nothing above suggesting that.