Repairing permissions in your Home folder has changed

Nearly three years ago, Apple started recommending that users with a wide range of otherwise intractable problems tried resetting permissions on their Home folder – something I documented here at the time. Just over a month ago, Apple changed those recommendations significantly. This article explains how they’ve changed, and what you should do now.

Until this recent change, repairing or resetting permissions on your Home folder consisted of three steps:

1. setting correct permissions on the Home folder in Finder’s Get Info dialog, and applying those to enclosed items;
2. running the diskutil resetUserPermissions command in Terminal;
3. if that returned an error, using chflags, then repeating diskutil resetUserPermissions.

This diskutil command has remained absent from its man page, and Apple doesn’t appear to document it anywhere other than in diskutil’s usage.

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