The ins and outs of an OS X Permissions fix<article>
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<p>Since you use a Mac, then at some point you’ve likely run into the mention of a “Permissions Fix” as a solution to just about any problem—slowdowns, random crashes, your Mac not booting up. Because it can refer to a bunch of different problems, hearing this term might leave you wondering what it is, what permissions are, and whether or not you actually need to run this routine on your Mac.</p><p>To understand permissions, try visualizing your hard drive’s format as a highly branched tree: The top level of the drive is the trunk, and each branch is a node that represents information about a file or folder on the drive. Okay, this may be a somewhat crude picture of your Mac’s file system, but if there’s one takeaway, remember that each item on your hard drive is represented by something called a “node.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2911697/the-ins-and-outs-of-an-os-x-permissions-fix.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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The ins and outs of an OS X Permissions fix
