Stumbled on this as I was looking up migration assistant issues.
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.
In message <OQquJ.125405$np6.9406@fx46.iad> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
Stumbled on this as I was looking up migration assistant issues.
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
From a decade ago?
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At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home
Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.
This hasn't been necessary on a very long time.
It is also trivial to do without booting into recovery.
chown -R <shortusername> ~
On 2021-12-15 15:44, Lewis wrote:
In message <OQquJ.125405$np6.9406@fx46.iad> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
Stumbled on this as I was looking up migration assistant issues.From a decade ago?
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/ >>
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Speaking of snipping you snipped out where it is still valid until at
least Yosemite (and "later" per the article writer).
In message <YBsuJ.122614$aF1.59898@fx98.iad> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
On 2021-12-15 15:44, Lewis wrote:
In message <OQquJ.125405$np6.9406@fx46.iad> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
Stumbled on this as I was looking up migration assistant issues.From a decade ago?
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/ >>>
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Speaking of snipping you snipped out where it is still valid until at
least Yosemite (and "later" per the article writer).
That was the opinion of whoever wrote that. Fixing permissions on your
home folder does not require recovery mode and hasn't for a very long
time, if it ever did.
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
From a decade ago?
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Speaking of snipping you snipped out where it is still valid until at
least Yosemite (and "later" per the article writer).
That was the opinion of whoever wrote that. Fixing permissions on your
home folder does not require recovery mode and hasn't for a very long
time, if it ever did.
Glad to know it in case I need it.
In article <xAJuJ.155128$831.6344@fx40.iad>, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:Even better to know. Every time I initialize a new Mac and move files
https://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
From a decade ago?
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Speaking of snipping you snipped out where it is still valid until at
least Yosemite (and "later" per the article writer).
That was the opinion of whoever wrote that. Fixing permissions on your
home folder does not require recovery mode and hasn't for a very long
time, if it ever did.
Glad to know it in case I need it.
you won't. nobody does. permissions repair is a waste of time.
the term itself is...
Every time I initialize a new Mac and move files
to it, I'm worried this issue may crop up. I did have such issues back
in the early days (2007 ish) for reasons I no longer recall. I may have
had such issues in 2013 when I moved from the Core Duo Mac to the i7.
(There were various issues - but I don't recall if permissions was in
there).
IAC, new M1 MBA move went flawlessly. I didn't use MA, just copied the
files over and pruned more crud along the way (a lot of dupes,
questionably useful files, old downloads, etc. I backed that stuff up
on an external drive for my SO to filter over the holidays...
In article <PKKuJ.222906$I%1.134364@fx36.iad>, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
Every time I initialize a new Mac and move files
to it, I'm worried this issue may crop up. I did have such issues back
in the early days (2007 ish) for reasons I no longer recall. I may have
had such issues in 2013 when I moved from the Core Duo Mac to the i7.
(There were various issues - but I don't recall if permissions was in
there).
it's extremely unlikely that any issues were related to permissions
unless you migrated *after* initial setup, which creates a second
account whose user id doesn't match the one on the original mac.
the mismatch can cause problems, which is why migration should always
be done during initial setup. it's also something that is unaffected by permissions repair.
IAC, new M1 MBA move went flawlessly. I didn't use MA, just copied the
files over and pruned more crud along the way (a lot of dupes,
questionably useful files, old downloads, etc. I backed that stuff up
on an external drive for my SO to filter over the holidays...
migration assistant would have made that significantly easier.
computers are there to do work *for* you.
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