Disk Permissions

How do you repair disk permissions in Mojave? It used to be in the Disk Utility app.

Mac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 14, 2018 6:07 PM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2018 6:59 PM

That was removed a while ago, maybe prior to High Sierra. There is no need to repair permissions as they cannot be changed anymore.


If you did something to your home folder permissions, this may work in Mojave.

Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support

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Oct 15, 2018 1:52 PM in response to Miguel Santa

Almost none of the previous OS versions needed to repair permissions. It was mostly Voodoo.

Home folder permissions would get messed up occasionally, but Repair Permissions never fixed those. Repair Permissions only acted on system files. All of those files have been protected by SIP since at least High Sierra, maybe even before that. The system permissions were almost never corrupt, and now they cannot be affected by rogue third-party software.

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