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repairing permissions on sierra

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

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 4:32 AM

32 replies

Not sure if this helps. I use an app called ONYX.

The permission repair function still exists there and works fine

Vikas

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13 points

Open a terminal and copy/paste:

diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`

repairing permissions on sierra

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