I'm running OS X 10.10.1. For the past few weeks, a few applications have been freezing up regularly. In particular, Evernote and Keyboard Maestro have been the worst culprits. I found myself having to constantly force quit these and other applications and processes. I also noticed that, periodically (that is, several times a day), my `~/Library/Application Support` directory becomes world writable, for no apparent reason.
I realised that these things were linked, in that, if I `chown` and `chmod go-w` the directory, nothing would hang for a while. It got so bad recently, that I ended up creating a cron job to fix the permissions, that runs every 20 minutes. This works (i.e., nothing hangs, and I can use my computer without problems), but I would rather not have to do this, and I would really like to know wtf could be constantly changing this directory's permissions to 777. I've run a deep virus scan using Bitdefender, so that (hopefully) rules out something sinister.
Thanks.
I realised that these things were linked, in that, if I `chown` and `chmod go-w` the directory, nothing would hang for a while. It got so bad recently, that I ended up creating a cron job to fix the permissions, that runs every 20 minutes. This works (i.e., nothing hangs, and I can use my computer without problems), but I would rather not have to do this, and I would really like to know wtf could be constantly changing this directory's permissions to 777. I've run a deep virus scan using Bitdefender, so that (hopefully) rules out something sinister.
Thanks.