Hello, I am getting a window only on my network user account that says Mac OS X needs to repair library to run application, it glocks up app store, reminders, contacs, note pad, etc, can anyone help, thnks in advance
I am getting the same error after the 10.8.3 OS update. Mine locks when I try and laund Mail, App Store, save Safari bookmarks and when I right click on attachments in Outlook.
This just worked for me:
Fixed it! Seems to be a permissioning problem in the Library folder. This is what I did
Open Finder
Go -> Go to Folder -> ~/Library
Get Info on the Library folder
Set the permissions as follows:
<username>(Me): Read & Write
everyone: No Access
You should have just these two. If there are any other account or group names remove them.
Click on the little gear and select 'Apply to enclosed items...'
It will take a while to go through the entire library and change the permissions. After that everything worked properly, for me at least.
Thanks for your reply Mike, are you doing this on the client computer?, When a go to Go>Go Folder> I get \hd\users\admin\library and click go and it says the folder can't be found, I am doing it on a client computer on my user account
Go -> Go to Folder -> "~/Library"
I have the same error and did reply to "Repair Library Popup" which is another thread on the same problem. I have an imac and after installing the latest update from apple this problem popped up. As mentioned in other thread I have reset password, reset ucl, did the disk utility, removed a couple programs and also followed the above suggestions and still have the problem. Any other suggestions appreciated or an update from apple would be great. thks for reading
Mac OS X needs to repair your library to run applications. Type your password to allow this.
Cancel or Repair.
If you hit cancel it's back in couple seconds and if you hit Repair it will come back in a minute.
Same!
Possible to be so few in all the world that Apple developers doesn't care about giving us a proper answer with a solution?
Ridicolously, I've just received by
Apple Support Communities the folowing mail mesage:
Congratulations, your post has solved Hector Castillo's question. !!!!!!
In the mean while I'm just surviving by having putted in a corner the box asking me to repair
Naturally this DIDN'T SOLVE ANYTHING!!!!!!!
GianMarco Tavazzani, I clicked by mistake the tab that said this solved my question, i am sorry, what apple recomended me on doing is creating a brand new user account and we will be moving files next week in a way they say that will not affect permissions on those files anymore incase some of them were causing the issue, there are defenetly a lot of wrong permission in my old user account files, my new user works just fine now, my set up is a mac mini server and 2 iMacs as clients, I used to pay for consultants to take care of my issues, I decided kind of late about stopping using consultants, seems like they were doing in it on purpouse to fix one thing and a few more things broke up, now everitme there is a issue that I cannot solve I contact Apple enterprise level, they been very helpful, things have been running much more better since then and a lot cheaper than using consultants, I can assure you that this issue is part of the issues that consultants did to my user account. I hope this help, let me know if you need more info as far as transfering files in a safe way, they will show me next week how to do this.
"I can assure you that this issue is part of the issues that consultants did to my user account."
Well, it's not my case and not the case of many other people who had the same issue and Apple knows it for sure very well!
Here is a thread that has helped others with same problem. good luck
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4891485?start=0&tstart=0
After 10.8.3 update issues that I need to repair library, does any one know what to do?
