Originally Posted by plantsower
Are you bragging? LOL! tongue

Originally Posted by joemikeb
By-the-way, I have not needed to repair or change permissions in macOS in at least five or six years.

Not bragging, rather pointing out what for several years was a routine maintenance procedure has become unnecessary and potentially creates more risk than benefit. At the outermost user level there is not that much obvious difference between macOS X 10.0 (Cheetah) and macOS 12 (Monterey) but under the hood they are radically different.

Some of the standby maintenance routines we used to follow on our Macs remind me of the very confused young man I saw at the filling station wandering around trying to figure out where to put gasoline in the Tesla he was driving.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein