There has been a growing debate on various forums and Mac Web sites over the worth of Disk Utility's "Repair Permissions" function as a troubleshooting procedure. In particular, some prominent users ...

When it comes to Mac OS X troubleshooting and maintenance, Repairing permissions may be the most frequently recommended course of action. It’s also easily the most maligned. The procedure has taken ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Noelle Oliveira says her Mac isn’t letting her save files from several different programs. She consistently receives the error (with various filenames and folder ...

In your business, you may need to prevent employees or others from accessing an external hard drive to keep the contents private or safe from edits.The Mac operating system assigns permissions to ...

First, try unlinking and relinking OneDrive to see if that helps. When you unlink OneDrive from your system, all the files and folders stored on the cloud will disappear from your computer. They will ...

If you get You don’t currently have permission to access this folder message & are unable to access files or folders due to permission issues, then this post shows how to troubleshoot File and Folder ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

Every day, tons of files are downloaded from the Internet, from applications, images, videos, and audio files to plain text files. If you get an error message in ...