{"id":91593,"date":"2025-09-28T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91593"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:50:12","slug":"macos-in-recovery-mode-typing-repairhomepermissions-into-terminal-launches-a-gui-app-each-time-i-have-tried-this-it-locks-me-out-of-every-folder-in-my-home-folder-and-wreaks-havoc-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91593","title":{"rendered":"macOS: &#8220;In Recovery mode, typing repairHomePermissions into Terminal launches a GUI app &#8230; each time I have tried this it locks me out of every folder in my Home folder and wreaks havoc elsewhere&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/09\/28\/last-week-on-my-mac-panacea-or-placebo\/\">https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/09\/28\/last-week-on-my-mac-panacea-or-placebo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These days, when I use macOS, I avoid anything that isn&#8217;t used constantly in the default setup. Apple has lost a sense of shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/09\/28\/last-week-on-my-mac-panacea-or-placebo\/ These days, when I use macOS, I avoid anything that isn&#8217;t used constantly in the default setup. Apple has lost a sense of shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91594,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91593\/revisions\/91594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}