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    May 05, 2020 3 minutes

    Prompted for password in Home folder

    Q When moving files within my Home folder, macOS keeps prompting me for my password. Is there something wrong with my permissions?

    by JEFF LAKEMAN

    A This is almost certainly because the permissions on parts of your Home folder have become set incorrectly, and is one of a dozen consequences of that. More specifically, it’s likely to be the result of you, as the owner of most of the folders and files within your Home folder, losing

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