![]() If you use a Mac as a testing ground and are constantly installing and removing software, then you might even need to repair your permissions quite regularly. Repairing permissions once or twice a year will help you Mac run smoother and faster and to perform as expected. And yes, I had reinstalled Lion together with Safari – to no avail, so I’m bound by the necessity to repair permissions which is annoying and is definitely a bug which never got enough attention even among users (perhaps being the reason why it wasn’t fixed during all Safari 6 support cycle). Repairing doesn’t help in a long run as Safari 6’s permissions get repeatedly corrupted. “Permissions differ on “Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Dutch.lproj/BookmarkTitleChange.nib”, should be drwxr-xr-x, they are -rwxr-xr-x” “Safari: Unlocking Focus on wrong view (), expected ”Ĭoincidence or not when verifying permissions I’m often (I mean VERY OFTEN) presented this kind of message related to Safari: TO support my guess here’s repeating Console message I encounter every time this mess occurs: Strangely it’s possible somehow to type a keyword in the search field but using arrows to jump to the keyword in text results in chaotic jiggering of the yellow marker interestingly as if a normal window (in a non-Reader mode) would shift up to the same distance as the search field did in Reader mode and all these yellow markers would shifted up to the same distance as well. After updating to Safari 6 for Lion (OS X 10.7.5 and Safari 6.1.6 I’m on as for this day) I started experiencing the strange issue, misbehavior, oddity, malfunction, whatever you’re calling it: when in Reader mode I try to call Find function I get search field half(or even by 3/4)-hidden behind the tab ribbon. debug Print debuging information while running.Īs suggested, this is not really something that should be run on a regular basis as any part of Mac maintenance routine, and it’s rarely necessary, which is likely why Apple pulled it from the Disk Utility application.īy the way, earlier releases of OS X also have a command line approach to repairing disk permissions, but it’s handled through the Disk Utility command line tool instead.Īnd now a bit of my experience and the respond to those telling that verify-and-repair-permissions has been delusions, I wish it were. output-format # Print progress info using a special output format. volume PATH Perform all operations on the specified volume. standard-pkgs Verify or repair the standard set of packages. pkg PKGID Verify or repair the package PKGID. repair Repair permissions on files in the specified package(s). verify Verify permissions on files in the specified package(s). list-standard-pkgs Display the package ids in the standard set. If you execute the repair_packages command without sudo and with no specifications or flags, you’ll get a simple help guide instead: Repairing permissions may take a while, just like it did from Disk Utility. Sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages -repair -standard-pkgs -volume / How to Repair Disk Permissions in OS X El Capitan from Command LineĪssuming permissions have been found which differ and you’d like to repair them, replace the –verify flag with –repair, and again point the command at the same volume: Permissions differ on "usr/libexec/cups/monitor", should be drwxr-xr-x, they are dr-xr-xr-x. Permissions differ on "usr/libexec/cups/driver", should be drwxr-xr-x, they are dr-xr-xr-x. Permissions differ on "usr/libexec/cups/daemon", should be drwxr-xr-x, they are dr-xr-xr-x. ![]() ![]() Permissions differ on "usr/libexec/cups/cgi-bin", should be drwxr-xr-x, they are dr-xr-xr-x. ![]() Not surprisingly, you’ll likely find some variation of permissions that differs, looking something like: The command will run and either show permissions that differ, or nothing, depending on what’s found. If you want to verify permissions on a different drive, specify the volume rather than “/” Sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages -verify -standard-pkgs / ![]() Open the Terminal application (found in /Applications/Utilities/) and use the following syntax to verify a volumes permissions, this will verify the default root volume of a Mac: How to Repair Verify Disk Permissions in OS X El Capitan Note this is not the same as verifying and repairing a disk. In this sense, repairing permissions is sort of considered a form of hocuspocus with little benefit to most OS X situations, but nonetheless there are some unique circumstances where you may want to verify and repair disk permissions in OS X anyway, particularly if a files permissions are actually off, meaning the ability for certain users and processes to read and write particular files and folders. To be clear, verifying and repairing disk permissions has long been over assigned as a remedy to all sorts of issues on the Mac, most of which are rarely accurate or legitimate. ![]()
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