Comments on: How To Repair User Permissions In Mac OS X

By: ethicalhacker

ethicalhacker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:09:37 +0000

So, in summary:

sudo chmod -R 770 ~

By: Clayton

Clayton — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:48:59 +0000

Yo I Have 2 things to Speed up this

First Since OS X is Fully Unix Based, it knows ~ is your home dir. In Short The Command Used to Be Completely Safe is:
sudo chmod -R ug+rwX ~

And @Matt What App is It? There are Some Apps That Must Be System Owned Which is a Little Harder to do!
thanks

By: matt

matt — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:48:06 +0000

my problem is that i need to fix an application’s permissions. how would i do that in the terminal?

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saving to HD after firewire transfer from old iMac - MacNN Forums — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:10:52 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by rsharma However, I am need to give my password before it allows me to proceed, to verify I am an administrator. Also, it seems that a lot of the files I transfered are now ‘read only’. Is there anyone that could shed some light on the topic and help me fix it. This is the same problem. Permissions are incorrect. Easiest solutions require using the terminal though. First, make sure you have a backup user account with admin privileges. Then try: sudo chown -R username /Users/username Here username is your short user name, the name of the folder in the Users directory of the hard disk. It will ask you for your password in order to do this. Then log out and log back in. If that doesn’t work, these instructions should apply. [...]

By: Jared James

Jared James — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:31:52 +0000

THANK YOU. If I weren’t a guy I’d kiss you, but an internet high-five will have to do.

I ended up doing same thing.. changed the permissions on my home folder in the term (don’t know why I did that?). This fixed it up!

Oh, and btw, you actually don’t have to restart your Mac to get this to work. You can just “relaunch” the Finder. It’ll recognize the changes after that.

By: sal

sal — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:24:09 +0000

@ Jennifer,

perhaps try repairing permissions in octal.

sudo chmod -R 770 /Users/username

ahh the beauty of OS X…

cheers

By: Jennifer Rodgers

Jennifer Rodgers — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:37:55 +0000

This did not work for me at all…is there anything else that I can do?

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:04:22 +0000

sudo is good. And handy as hell. I’ve used the Repair Permissions utility several times, but never realized that it didn’t touch user directories. That info may serve me well in the future…