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When repairing permissions keeps fixing the same things

Sometime when you “repair permissions”on a Mac, it continues to repair the same ones over and over. They never seem to stay fixed. There are a few items that will always show up, no matter how often you run Disk Utitlity. These are called “Spurious Permissions.”

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2 Responses to “When repairing permissions keeps fixing the same things”

  1. M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching » Blog Archive » More things not to worry about? More Disk Utility confusion. Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    […] In 10.3 , there were “spurious permissions,” false positives when repairing permissions with Disk Utility. See http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/hochberg_m/2008/09/09/when-repairing-permissions-keeps-fixing-the-same-things/ In 10.5, they are “accurate but not a cause for concern.” […]

  2. M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching » Blog Archive » More things not to worry about? More Disk Utility confusion. Says:
    November 1st, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    […] permissions,” false positives when repairing permissions with Disk Utility. See http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/hochberg_m/2008/09/09/when-repairing-permissions-keeps-fixing-the-same-thin…/ In 10.5, they are “accurate but not a cause for […]

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