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What's your take on repairing permissions?
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Yeah, I've seen them. Pretty interesting, actually. The only time I repair permissions is when I let Carbon Copy Cloner do it before backing-up, which is about once a month.
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It's a waste of time unless you use a third party installer that recklessly goes around altering permissions (e.g. Adobe Flash Player).
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There are problems it solves, but they've become increasingly rare as companies get used to permissions on OS X.
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SuperDuper does it for me about once per week. I rarely do it any other time.
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Many servers (such as Windows) do a nightly "re-apply" of permissions to help secure the system from security holes made by bad software or hacks. I agree that this is important but as far as it having some kind of fix for regular enduser issues I do not... given that the enduser is not altering system settings and programs they shouldn't be. every time I see somebody telling someone they need to repair permissions to fix an issue it raises my eyebrow.
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
every time I see somebody telling someone they need to repair permissions to fix an issue it raises my eyebrow.
C'mon, now.
Something had to replace "Rebuild the desktop" in the Macintouch lexicon.
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I've never consciously run it... although I'm sure some installation routines have done it without me knowing.
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Originally Posted by Moose
Something had to replace "Rebuild the desktop" in the Macintouch lexicon.
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Linkinus is king.
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