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So I had a permissions issue the other day. It started because I was needing to do some file sharing between two Macs running Yosemite, and not matter what I tried I could not get file sharing to work. Eventually stupidity set in….<\/p>\nSo I had a permissions issue the other day. It started because I was needing to do some file sharing between two Macs running Yosemite, and not matter what I tried I could not get file sharing to work. Eventually stupidity set in….<\/p>\n
Wondering if it could be a file permissions issue I decided to change them and add some user access. Not only was that not the issue, but it suddenly prevented some of my apps from launching. Oh boy. It’s important to note that there is NO ‘undo’ command for this level of dumb.<\/p>\n
Rather than diagnosing my network sharing issue I switched to researching what the ‘normal’ file permissions should be so I could reset things. I discovered that info is not easily found. I also discovered while it’s really easy to change your file permissions, it’s not so easy to revert back. I first tried using Disk Utility to fix permissions. That works okay, except it doesn’t touch User folders which is where my problems were. I found an article suggesting User folder permissions can be reset by rebooting in to safe mode and launching the passwordreset utility in Terminal. Once it launches there is an option to select a User folder and reset permissions. Great! But that didn’t work either.<\/p>\n