Disk utility repair problem, MacBook Pro 2011 13" 2.4 Ghz.

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Disk utility repair problem, MacBook Pro 2011 13" 2.4 Ghz.

Have 12-15 items on verification that supposedly require repair, mainly look to do with Java/sys/prefs. Run the repair and the items are marked as repaired but they are not, when run the verify again same items come up as requiring repair. Try running disk repair from the 10.6.4 CD does no better, issues still unrepaired. ???!

Emac, 10.4, 1.25 GHz, powerbook 10.5.6, 1.5GHz, IMac 10.6.5 2.16 Ghz, MBP 13" 10.6.5, 2.4 Ghz., Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 5, 2011 6:50 AM

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rkaufmann87

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Jan 5, 2011 7:19 AM in response to Andrew Marshall

You can safely ignore those messages, Apple explains that in:

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

Roger

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eww

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Jan 5, 2011 7:26 AM in response to Andrew Marshall

I presume you are talking about the *Repair Disk Permissions* routine, rather than the *Repair Disk* routine, in Disk Utility. They are very different, and it's useful to distinguish clearly between them.

The permissions repair function always returns a number of messages that can safely be ignored. Apple has a KBase article that says so and lists many of them, but I'm unable to locate the article right now. If you are seeing the same messages every time you repair permissions and you aren't having permissions-related issues with your computer immediately afterward, you can assume those messages are ignorable.

EDIT: Good — Roger found it.

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Jan 6, 2011 8:43 AM in response to rkaufmann87

Thanks guys, that resolves the matter, just not seen so many permissions issues that seem uncleared after running disk repair, saying they are repaired when nothing seems to have happened, slightly disconcerting!

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rkaufmann87

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Jan 6, 2011 9:32 AM in response to Andrew Marshall

Your welcome and thank you very much for the star.

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