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Repairing permissions has taken days - and still going

After the slew of problems I had after upgrading to 10.5.2 it was suggested on one of these forums that I repair my permissions. I started that last Thursday morning - when I left work for the weekend on Friday afternoon it said "20 hours) still to go. This morning (Monday) I come in, it's still running, and says it has "One Day, 18 hours" left.

So that means it's been running for almost 4 straight days, with another couple to go (if the "one day, 18 hour" is to be believed".

If you open Force Quit it tells you the application's not responding, but if you sit there and watch the Disk Repair window you can see it processes a file about once every minute or so.

So far all of the messages have begun with "ACL found but not expected on..."

Mind you, I have two 1 TB hard drives installed, running as a mirror RAID.

G5 Dual 2 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Plus a 17" MacBook Pro running Leopard, too

Posted on Feb 25, 2008 6:47 AM

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Feb 25, 2008 3:47 PM in response to W. Robert Newberry

You should "force quit" the application even if your TB drives are completely full.

Run fsck from bootup. This is a UNix command you can initiate from restart. Press the Apple and S keys at the same time as you boot. Then type in fsck -fy . Let it run to completion, and then type exit.

The machine will reboot.

Then run "verify disk" in Disk Utility. Then run "repair permissions" for each disk separately.

Mar 3, 2008 11:24 AM in response to Russa

I re-booted and ran fsck -fy, but it said everything was fine. When I re-booted from that, all the problem's I'd been having were still there. I re-ran Repair Permissions (from my hard drive, not a boot disk) and it ran fine except that it doesn't allow me to run it on each disk of the RAID individually - that option is grayed out. The Repair Permissions process didn't report any problems.

Repairing permissions has taken days - and still going

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