Repairing Permissions

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Repairing Permissions

QUESTION: Am I supposed to regularly Repair Permissions?

I'm not having problems (knocking on wood), but on my old mac, an Apple Support Tech told me to do it once a month. Now have a new computer...I don't like to "mess" unless I have to. (If I knew more, I would probably "mess" more!!!)

Do I repair permissions from the disk that came with the computer?

TIA!
job

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Have had macs all my life and still don't know very much!

Posted on Jan 29, 2009 12:56 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Jan 29, 2009 1:04 PM in response to J. Bailey

If you want to repair permissions, you can do it from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder on your computer. But there's little need to do so unless your system is having problems. I see little harm in doing a regular permissions repair, though. Just be aware that there are some messages that will appear to be errors that are not. See:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448

Regards.

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J. Bailey Author

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Jan 29, 2009 1:08 PM in response to varjak paw

Wowzers...that was fast!

Thanks!

All is fine, think I will just leave all alone for now. However, I bookmarked the link you sent...good information for us poor mac illiterates!

job

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Answer 3

varjak paw

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Jan 29, 2009 1:23 PM in response to J. Bailey

No problem. My general philosophy is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

Cheers.

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