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New Mac Mini and Repairing Permissions

I've been having trouble with my Mail program and thought I would repair permissions to see if that would help. I ran disk utility from my internal hard drive and ran repair permissions. Apparently it found several permissions to repair, so I thought I would run repair permissions again and the same list appeared. Running a third time and the same list appeared again.Do these permissions ever get repaired? What do I do from here? Should I repair permissions after booting up off of my original system disk? This Mini is only a couple of weeks old and I'm already having problems with Mail and repairing permissions.

rskover

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 26, 2009 5:44 PM

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Mar 28, 2009 11:16 AM in response to Trinity

. If the migration assistant corrupts the permissions and the system doesn't have an utility to correct the problem,


Migration assistant does not corrupt the permissions. Its how you use it that causes the problem.

For example the best way to use the migration assistant is during the initial setup of the mac when you turn it on for the first time at the point when it asks do you have another mac to transfer the data. This ensures that 1 user account is created exactly the same as the on the other mac. Then you login as that user and all is well.

Some 3rd party application may not work this is normal, It is best to clean install them. Also if you going from a powerpc mac to an intel then it will have unexpected results with some applications. Again this is not a bug it is normal. As you are moving across 2 completely different architectures.

If you however use the migration assistant after you have already setup a user account on the mac then it will create permission issues as it will create another user account. Therefore if you try copy from one user account to another it will cause permission issues this is normal behaviour of a UNIX system not a bug.

. If they can't transfer the file in the same place with the same permissions I think somebody is not doing a good work. And it's not me.


2 computers with different user accounts on each will cause permission issues unless you learn how to setup a sharepoint correctly so it is you, you have to learn. It not a bug with the system.

And it's not me. I'm the client not the beta tester.


also if this is used in a commercial environment and you dont have the skills required then it is normal to hire an IT person to do the work for you and give appropriate training where necessary.

I can assure that your issues where nothing to do with the hardware. I think you are just on the bottom of a learning curve. I cant think of another way to say this without perhaps offending you. It not meant to be taken in that way it is just an observation.

New Mac Mini and Repairing Permissions

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