I have a 27" iMac running os 10.7.5 and i'm having permissions repair problems ever since my last os update,does anyone know whats going on and how to fix it? Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 27" IMAC
Hi Mike,
What exact problems please?
Hello,
When I run permissions repair a whole list of permissions needing repair, 20, 30? show up and then a folling message (like normal) say that they are repaired. When I then run permissions repair again the long list shows up again, and the same thing again, etc… not sure how to clean this up. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you, Mike
Please carefully read Apple's Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Yeah, as long as it sats Repairs completed, you can ugnore messages reapeated if run again.
A very LARGE shout out Thank You! to both rkaufmann87 and BDAqua for taking the time to help me. Sincerely, Thank You, Mike
ps. Wishing you both, and everyone else on this Board, a very good Thanksgiving.
Great to hear, thanks Mike, & good luck! 🙂
Your welcome and Happy Thankgiving to you and yours.
Something doesn’t sound right. The messages shouldn’t be ignored if you restart the Disk Utility app and the same permission errors show up. I’ve even rebooted the OS and found the same errors. I also mistrust the file check function (vs Drive Genius reports).
None of this ever happened until the last patch 10.7.5 (11G63).
Nope you are wrong, please carefully the link I supplied in my November 21st post.
Thank You rkaufmann87. I’ve seen the list and am grateful to learn that the OS will continue to recognize files Disk Utility finds with improper permissions. It is disconcerting though, that file system errors are now OK and can be ignored. That is a very slippery slope. Maybe I’m just used to using Sun and SG OS’s for so long.
OS 10.7.5 W' permissions repair problems. How to fix it?
