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Archives for April 13th, 2006

Yet Another Permissions Debate Post

Gruber – “Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo”
MacFixIt – “Repair Permissions: A false panacea?”

Like I said, the debate rages on…

However, to make the point final, once and for all, I’d like to point out that Apple DOES recommend permissions be repaired after a system update, or software installation. The following screen shot is taken from the help document of the current version of Disk Utility (10.5.5) which ships with OS X 10.4.6. Do a search for “permissions” and there it is.

Permissions

So… I think this settles it. Yes?

4/13/06 Apple 1 Comment