As much as I agree with the sentiments on both sides of this issue, I decided to participate in the upgrade offer and discovered that it was able to repair permissions on my El Capitan installation.....a function that wasn't offered by the version of Disk Utility that comes with El Cap.
I'm fairly certain that the long list of permissions requiring repair was the result of many years accumulated OS updates and not the result of anything recent....that legacy accumulation of potential issues is now resolved.
FWIW, there were no indications of issue or distress prior to running TTP8's permission repair function.
(So as far as I can tell, it could be very much like keeping a big stick near the front door to keep elephants out of the yard....haven't seen a single elephant since I started keeping the stick at the ready!!)
(edited to add the elephant analogy...)
Last edited by MacManiac; 02/23/16 04:19 PM.
