You may have been asked to provide your Mac’s password in the past, but service procedures have changed, and it’s now the exact opposite.
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AppleCare+ combines extended warranty on defects with insurance cover for accidental damage. This explains the benefits now offered for Macs.
Do you need to back it up when the problem is minor? Should you erase its internal storage? Anything else you need to do?
Repairing permissions has a long history in Mac OS X. The permissions concerned have changed over the years, and it’s no longer what it once was.
Apple says that if you run First Aid on a disk, each of its volumes is checked too. Is that really true?
If something goes wrong with Catalina’s boot Volume Group, it seems there’s no way to repair it, or change the Data volume. Or is there?
In the last few days, Apple has again changed its recommended procedure for resetting or repairing permissions on […]
Can now explain what is wrong with a file’s permissions, and can scan any folder of you choice.
New and more reliable version of a tool to check whether Home folder permissions are correct or causing problems.
I’m very grateful for the many comments which you’ve made recently about my free utility to check permissions, […]
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