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How do I go about repairing permissions on OS X 10.12. U am having problems and this option in the disk utility used to fix a lot of them
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11), sierra
Glad to hear you got your issue resolved; however, FYI, MacKeeper is not recommended here. It cleans to well that it can delete essential system files and is known to cause a myriad or problems. I would not ever let that type of software anywhere near any of my Macs.
I can't access my previous Time Machine after reinstalling Sierra (it never asked me to inherit it for some reason). I have no way of fixing permissions on the Time Machine disk. It won't let me!
Permissions repair has been removed from the OS:
Terrys-MacBook-Pro:~ tmcdanel$ sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages –verify –standard-pkgs /
Password:
sudo: /usr/libexec/repair_packages: command not found
"macOS automatically repairs file permissions during software updates and changes"
Maybe i am ignorant here, but this seems like another troubleshooting tool that has been removed from the OS, in the guise of making "safer" but in reality making the user more dependent on Apple technical support.
Maybe i am ignorant here, but this seems like another troubleshooting tool that has been removed from the OS, in the guise of making "safer" but in reality making the user more dependent on Apple technical support.
No, it was just of limited value, and now that the things that it would have repaired are protected from change by SIP, there is no need for it.
In order to be able to delete ar change in the application file I have to sign in every time. When this used to occur I would repair the permissions and this would go away. I don't know of any other way
DanMccarter wrote:
In order to be able to delete ar change in the application file
What do you mean by that? You shouldn't be changing anything inside an app package, and if you do I would hope it would authenticate otherwise any rogue process could just alter the code in an app.
I mean I might want to trash an app that is no longer needed. or move several apps into one folder. And I don't want to be picturing my password each timer. I would not, and wouldn't know how to get inside an app an change it
I mean I might want to trash an app that is no longer needed. or move several apps into one folder.
Modifying the Application folder requires authentication. That includes both trashing an app not owned by your user and moving files to another folder.
Neither are the result of incorrect permissions.
I tried many different solutions then stumbled upon this, which solved all of my permissions issues. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538
I can't run VMWare Fusion because the VMWare guys are telling me to fix permissions. As a systems engineer I have had to run several times to get things working.
Tried that. Not only did it not resolve the issue but it broke a related application making both of them unusable.
Sorry, I've never experienced that problem at all. Repair permissions would not help that, anyway, as the folder was in your Home.
Issue finally resolved but was forced to go folder-by-folder in the affected hierarchy to manually fix the permissions. Repair Disk Permissions would do this automatically.
repairing permissions on sierra
