HT203172: Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

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Lisbonna
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Q: Permissions differ on “Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/iPodUpdater” ; should be lrwxr-xr-x ; they are -rwxr-xr-x .

Why does disk utility keeps identifying the same permission errors, even after repairing them 5 minutes before?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 17, 2012 7:08 AM

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  • by WZZZ,

    WZZZ WZZZ Oct 17, 2012 7:40 AM in response to Lisbonna
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    Oct 17, 2012 7:40 AM in response to Lisbonna

    Ignore it. It just means Apple hasn't updated the Permissions database to reflect the new location of that file. It's not an error. You can see that the Permissions for all 3 postions (read, write, execute) are identical in both, rwxr-xr-x, and the l before the first  one is a symlink indicating the file is in a different location. (The - in front of the second set just means it's a folder, a directory. The - inside, not before, indicates that write Permissions for that position are not enabled for that group.

     

    You can keep repairing that until the cows come home and it will never change. It's not an error.

     

    Btw, Permissions repair is pretty much a huge waste of time. It's not something to be done for general maintenance, but only when actually necessary.