Q: Pop message that Mac OS X needs to repair Library to run applications?

HI,

Which Library did it say needed repairing ?

System/Library ?

Library ?

Or Users/(YourAccount)/Library ?

Which of these did you "repair" ?

I may not be able to help more than this.

7:58 PM      Saturday; March 23, 2013

  iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

HI,

Can you grab a Screen Shot of this ?

Use the CMD + Shift + 4 keys together.  Then click the space bar and mouse over the Alert.

When the alert/window is highlighted then click the mouse.

The Pic should end up on your Desktop.

You can then use the camera icon in the reply screen here and select the pic to post it.

I can't say that I have heard or or seen anything like this.

8:28 PM      Saturday; March 23, 2013

  iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi,

It does appear to be an Apple Alert.

It also appears that it is talking about your User account (Home Folder) Library.

Does the "Repair" button launch Disk Utility ?

If you launched Disk Utility did you use Repair Permissions ?

And for the Library did you use the Finder > Go Menu > Go to Folder and type in ~/Library to access the Library ?

Getting to a point where your can do a Get Info on this folder needs you to go to the Finder's View Menu and Using the Show Path Bar option then clicking on the Library in the path.

10:09 PM      Saturday; March 23, 2013

  iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

You won't see your own Library as the Finder hides it from you. You can likely see your other user's Library because you have set special permissions on it so that you can read/write all the folders in that other user's home.

Open up Terminal and copy/paste this command into the Terminal Window and hit return. Post the results which will be the list of folders in your Home along with all permissions and Access Control Entries:

ls -aleO ~/

If the problem is in your Home folder, then repairing permissions won't help.

There is a way to reset them, but lets see what they look like, first.

I am also havign the same problem. please advise also how I can repair this.

Last login: Sun Mar 24 18:26:22 on ttys000

Gerard-OLearys-iMac:~ gerardoleary$ ls -aleO ~/

total 3200

drwxr-xr-x+ 44 gerardoleary  staff  -            1496 24 Mar 18:10 .

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxr-xr-x   7 root          admin  -             238 24 Mar 11:18 ..

-rw-------   1 gerardoleary  staff  compressed      3 20 Nov  2009 .CFUserTextEncoding

-rw----rw-@  1 gerardoleary  staff  hidden      43012 24 Mar 18:33 .DS_Store

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------   2 gerardoleary  staff  -              68 24 Mar 18:10 .Trash

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -               0 25 Feb  2011 .Xauthority

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx---rwx+  4 gerardoleary  staff  -             136  4 Dec  2010 .adobe

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw-------   1 gerardoleary  staff  -             177 24 Mar 18:27 .bash_history

drwx---rwx+  3 gerardoleary  staff  -             102 20 Nov  2009 .cups

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+ 15 gerardoleary  staff  -             510 24 Mar 18:30 .dropbox

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxr-xr-x   5 gerardoleary  staff  -             170  7 Jul  2012 .dvdcss

drwx---rwx+ 31 gerardoleary  staff  -            1054 10 Nov 12:07 .fontconfig

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx---rwx+ 14 gerardoleary  staff  -             476 25 Apr  2011 .fonts

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxrwxrwx   3 gerardoleary  staff  -             102  7 Jul  2012 .nchsoftware

drwx---rwx@  2 gerardoleary  staff  -              68  2 Oct  2010 .wapi

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rwx--xrwx+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -          525540  9 Dec  2010 AdminTool

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -             704  4 Dec  2010 Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool.log

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx---rwx+  3 gerardoleary  staff  -             102  2 Dec  2010 Akamai NetSession Uninstaller.app

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------   2 gerardoleary  staff  -              68 15 Aug  2012 Applications

drwxr-xr-x  11 gerardoleary  staff  -             374 10 Nov 12:35 Books

drwx---rwx+ 12 gerardoleary  staff  -             408 22 Dec 15:40 Calibre Library

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+ 26 gerardoleary  staff  -             884 23 Mar 14:15 Desktop

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+ 91 gerardoleary  staff  -            3094  3 Feb 18:31 Documents

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+ 84 gerardoleary  staff  -            2856 14 Mar 19:45 Downloads

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx---rwx@ 10 gerardoleary  staff  -             340 24 Mar 18:11 Dropbox

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-@  1 gerardoleary  staff  -            3632 18 Sep  2010 KINDLE Your Amazon.co.uk Warranty Purchase.rtf

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------@ 59 gerardoleary  staff  hidden       2006  3 Aug  2012 Library

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxr-xr-x  11 gerardoleary  staff  -             374  9 Dec  2010 Logs

drwx------+ 34 gerardoleary  staff  -            1156 15 Aug  2012 Movies

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+  7 gerardoleary  staff  -             238 22 Dec 15:39 Music

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwx------+ 21 gerardoleary  staff  -             714 10 Sep  2012 Pictures

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxr-xr-x+  6 gerardoleary  staff  -             204 24 Nov  2009 Public

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw-r--r--   1 gerardoleary  staff  -            7763  9 Dec  2010 Readme.txt

drwxr-xr-x+  6 gerardoleary  staff  -             204 21 Nov  2009 Sites

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw-r--r--   1 root          staff  -               8  8 Aug  2012 a.txt

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -            3550  9 Dec  2010 client.ini

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -            4609  9 Dec  2010 client.ini.json

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -             524  9 Dec  2010 data.dat

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -              44  9 Dec  2010 euc_state.json

0: group:everyone deny delete

-rw----rw-+  1 gerardoleary  staff  -            1455  9 Dec  2010 guid.ini

0: group:everyone deny delete

drwxr-xr-x   3 gerardoleary  staff  -             102  2 Dec  2010 macui.app

-rw-r--r--   1 gerardoleary  staff  -            5195  9 Dec  2010 root.pem

-rw-r--r--   1 gerardoleary  staff  -          670194  9 Dec  2010 rsmacui.tar.gz

-rw-r--r--   1 gerardoleary  staff  -          332970  9 Dec  2010 uninstall.tar.gz

Gerard-OLearys-iMac:~ gerardoleary$

Gerard-OLearys-iMac:~ gerardoleary$

Gerold, there is nothing wrong with your permisssions. Please do not post responses that we request of AuditCat. It only confuses everyone. If you want to start your own thread, please do. If you just want to lurk and see if we come up with anything, that's fine too. When everyone and their Aunt Sue starts posting terminal dumps on the same thread, nobody can keep up with what is going on.

HI,

This Library belongs to the User that is Logged in.  (?chrismaben)

If you mean that in System Preferences > Users and Groups you have two users then you will each have your own Library Folder.

If there is only one User then it needs only to have one name   (the (me) one).

The OS is based on Unix this has a set of preordained Users and Groups that exist before you add the People.

The "system" is one User as in the "nobody" one.

"staff" and "everyone" are groups that "chrismaben" in this case can also be in.

Mine looks like this

You have three Librarys shown and none is "yours"

System/Library is  Owned by "system" that as read and Write Permissions with "wheel" and "eveyone" having read only permissions.

The Harddrive(Name)/Library or /Library as it is more commonly written when talking about and the one that appears as "Where /" on your pic is also owned by the "system"

AS you show your son as having his Own account on your Computer in the Users folder he should not show your name in that List and you should not be the Owner.

AS Barney-15E says you and we will need to know what the current settings are before you can proceeed.

As you can see from GeraldOleary's  post there are not only the visible items in the Home Folder such as Documents, Pictures, Music etc but some hidden items as well depending what you have installed.

The narrowing of the reply parts to threads here has made it more difficult to read his "printout" as some things end up changing lines.

Items that have a dot in front such as the .adobe and .Trash nearer the top are not visible.

Mine in pic form

It is fair to say there are different levels  of Hidden-ness.

7:21 PM      Sunday; March 24, 2013

  iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

You have given everyone read/write access to your protected folders inside your Home folder.

You have also created an access control entry to allow yourself access to your Library, which you should already have access to, so it is redundant.

I doubt that any of that is causing the problem you are seeing, but perhaps.

Boot into Recovery HD,

Choose Terminal from the Utilities menu,

type:

resetpassword

and hit return,

Select your hard drive from the list (likely Macintosh HD),

Select your username from the list,

Click the Reset Home folder Permissions and ACLs button.

Reboot and log into your account. See if that repaired your problem.

Also, run the permission command again. Please copy the output from the window and paste it into a reply. Don't use a screen capture.