Why do you need to repair permissions on a Mac?

We have already talked on several occasions about how to verify and repair permissions on bitten apple operating systems. It is an action that not all Mac users do, either because they are not up to date on what to do to keep the system in good condition or because they miss it.

In this article, in addition to reminding you very briefly how to do that action and link to previous articles in which we explain it to you in detail, We are going to explain why to do this cleaning.

Whether you are a new user or if you have been on Mac for a long time, you will have realized that sometimes the Safari browser starts to slow down or certain programs begin to generate errors at times that they did not before. It is as if the system began to malfunction for times even though the OS X system is one of the most stable.

All this happens in all systems, both in Windows, OS X or Linux and in each one of them you have to do a different action to be able to recover the vitality of the first day. However in OS X this action is very simple, just open Disk Utility and launch the process of verification and repair of permissions.

But where we are going, operating systems begin to slow down because as we make use of thousands of files, we place them here today and there tomorrow, we install applications and uninstall them incorrectly, we use the browser and they creep in. malicious files. In short, the normal use of a computer.

However, in OS X it must also be borne in mind that each file, program or library has specific read, write or modification permissions with which you can know who, from which account (administrator or user) and which of them can run. That is why the repair of permits is very effective in this system, ours, that of the bitten apple.