The helpfulness of verifying and repairing file permissions in OS X is debatable, and in OS X El Capitan, Apple’s removed the option from Disk Utility altogether, favoring repairing permissions ...

The command line may not be the most intuitive way to control your Mac, but often it’s the fastest—especially when it comes to permissions. These behind-the-scenes settings determine whether you’re ...

Security is essential, and it is not just that other users can access the files, but programs you install on the computer also get the same access. The good news is that fixing the permissions to ...