Hi...
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro running Catalina. Mail recently stopped working, couldn't access the user home directory. Rebooted, Mac would shut down during reboot sequence. Rebooted in verbose mode, looked like a disk permissions issue. Couldn't reboot in Safe Mode either.
Rebooted in recovery mode, ran Disk Utility on both container disk and volumes, got a "failed to open with error: Permission denied... exit code 66... File system verify or repair failed (-69845)".
Try to reinstall Catalina, got a permissions error.
Rebooted off an external HD running Catalina, Disk Utility couldn't fix the internal HD from there either. BUT I can browse the user home folder that I couldn't see when previously booted off the internal drive.
If possible, I'd like to avoid erasing the internal drive and reinstalling. Looks like permissions somehow got messed up on the internal drive. Any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks!
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro running Catalina. Mail recently stopped working, couldn't access the user home directory. Rebooted, Mac would shut down during reboot sequence. Rebooted in verbose mode, looked like a disk permissions issue. Couldn't reboot in Safe Mode either.
Rebooted in recovery mode, ran Disk Utility on both container disk and volumes, got a "failed to open with error: Permission denied... exit code 66... File system verify or repair failed (-69845)".
Try to reinstall Catalina, got a permissions error.
Rebooted off an external HD running Catalina, Disk Utility couldn't fix the internal HD from there either. BUT I can browse the user home folder that I couldn't see when previously booted off the internal drive.
If possible, I'd like to avoid erasing the internal drive and reinstalling. Looks like permissions somehow got messed up on the internal drive. Any suggestions for fixing this? Thanks!