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At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’.

From the drop-down below it, select the user account where you are having issues. Instead, click on the icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top.

Os x permissions reset password#

The Password reset utility launches, but you’re not going to reset the password.

In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return.

On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.

You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen.

This boots your Mac to the recovery partition Lion installed.

Restart Lion and hold down the Command and R keys.

This tool is located inside boot Repair Utilities. However an area it will not repair are incorrect permissions in your home folder. In Lion, there is an additional Repair Permissions application utility hidden away. This is useful for repairing system wide and application permission problems. This will repair the disk permissions on your Mac’s main drive, determined as the root volume / As you may have guessed, if you want you can also run the disk permission repair on another disk by specifying the other volume rather than / at the command line. The Disk Utility application, which can be found in your utilities folder, has a repair permissions option. For various reasons permissions on folders, files or applications can get set incorrectly causing random problems from applications quitting to not being able to save your files.

Os x permissions reset mac os x#

One issue with Mac OS X that pops up every now and again are incorrect permissions.