Why can't I create a .ssh directory on macOS 10.15.4?
I booted into recovery mode, and ran First Aid on my disk. First the Macintosh HD volume, which returned without error.

Then, when I ran First Aid on the "Macintosh HD - Data" volume, the operation failed, with these errors:





I ran this operation twice, with the same errors. I didn't know what else to do, so I just restarted back into the normal environment.

When I log in, I see that there is a .ssh directory after all, created last October 25!

nnyby@nothing ~ % ls -lae .ssh
total 24
drwx------   5 nnyby  staff   160 Oct 25 11:36 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 26 nnyby  staff   832 Apr  2 12:43 ..
 0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-------   1 nnyby  staff  1856 Oct 25 11:36 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--   1 nnyby  staff   423 Oct 25 11:36 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--   1 nnyby  staff  3192 Apr  2 12:46 known_hosts


I had restarted this laptop plenty of times over the past few weeks, always with this .ssh problem, so maybe the disk repair did something to fix it? Either way, thank you macOS for being completely not frustrating at all to work with! I can't imagine why anyone would prefer to use Linux!