Now you must use the command-line tool or third-party solutions to accomplish this. In what could be seen as another sign of Apple’s shrinking interest in the pro markets, Apple has removed the capacity to support multi-disk or RAID arrays from within Disk Utility. Disk Utility must be able to unmount the drive or you receive an error message. In essence, this means that if you think your disk needs some maintenance, you must run the whole thing. First Aidĭisk Utility can no longer verify a disk before running first aid, so you can’t check disk health. Overall, I think that’s a good thing, as inexperienced, new or less technically minded Mac users won’t need to learn how to use the tool its benefits will already be applied. The Repair Permissions function is no longer necessary.”Īll the same, this will be a shock to Mac users who have traditionally made use of Repair Permissions as an essential first step to troubleshooting.Īpple’s decision to make this an automatically applied OS-level operation, part of the new System Integrity Protection built into the OS, means Mac users shouldn’t need to do it themselves any more.
The company claims that in El Capitan, “System file permissions are automatically protected, and updated, during Software Updates. The lack of Repair Permissions shouldn’t matter too much, according to Apple. Disk Utility launches with this view and offers five choices to reach its remaining tools in its top bar: First Aid, Partition, Erase, Unmount and Info.
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