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Q: When I run Disk Utility -> Verify Disk when normally logged on it says to boot up in Safe Mode and repair the disk.  When I boot in Safe, the Disk Utility says everything is fine with the drive.  Why the difference?

I have a MacBook Pro 2012, 16GB RAM, 2.6 GHz i7.

 

When I run the Disk Utility -> Verify Disk when normally logged in I get an error saying "the disk permissions need to be repaired and I should boot up in Safe Mode and run the Repair Disk routine."  When I boot up in Safe Mode and run Verify Disk, everything seems fine and it passes the check.  When I return to a normal operating environment and run the Verify Disk routine it tells me there is still an issue.  Why the discrepancy?  Is there something I should address here?  The computer has no real performance issues that I can detect, I was just running some general maintenance and decided to check the disk.  Any way to get rid of this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jul 21, 2015 8:59 AM

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