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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 370

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 370. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Focussed lamp for alphabetical list to find files again.

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Spotlight index

Focussed lamp (a spotlight) for alphabetical list (an index) to find files again (what rebuilding it is claimed to achieve).

2: Fix authorisations still offered in recovery, if you dare.

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Permissions

Fix authorisations (permissions) still offered in recovery (it’s still available in Recovery mode), if you dare (just don’t try using it!).
Repairing permissions is no longer the panacea that it once was, but is part of checking general disk health.

3: Working area rebuilt to restore icons.

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Desktop

Working area (desktop) rebuilt (to repair it) to restore icons (rebuilding it in Classic Mac OS restored associations between apps and document icons).
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The common factor

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Rebuilding, repairing or resetting these have been popular panaceas for fixing problems.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.