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

Follow Barney-15E's advice on this as he knows more about this type of reset than I do.

8:40 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

Hi,

That's because you changed the Ownership of that particular Library (System/Library) to yourself.

It will be best to await Barney-154E's instructions.

10:30 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

If you changed permissions on the root hard drive, or on the System Library, then used Apply to Enclosed, repair permissions is going to take some time fixing all that your changed.

If it comes back, can you note what you are doing at the time? Which application are you trying to use?

There are some other similar threads and one of the fixes was deleting the plists for TextEdit and Preview. I assume that was because those were the programs that caused the message to appear.

No Problem.

6:58 PM      Monday; March 25, 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

When I saw the message, I opened /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and noted that several items from the Containers folder in the home Library folder seemed to be mentioned in the latest log items that appeared whenever the dialog box (alert) appeared. I removed those items from the Containers folder then restarted, and the alert didn't come back.

I really glad to see that this issue was resolved.

AuditCat, when you get a chance, can you please click the button that reads "This solved my problem" on the bottom of the post Barney-15E left, which led to the solution.  This not only rewards Barney-15E for his helpful advise but also helps other users more quickly jump to the useful bits of the conversation.

Thank you.

I had the same problem and tried what this post advised to no avail but it did give me a lot of insight to some other issues my iMac was having.  My iMac would not boot after start up unIess I reinstalled OS X 10.6. It would run fine until restart.  Finally I decided to just update and went into Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and finally Yosemite.  The not booting issued was resolved at Lion but then I had the same issue you mentioned.  Unfortunately I had to create a new account, copy over all my files and then delete my main user account.  The "Mac OS X needs to repair your Library to run applications.  Type your password to allow this" message was not happening in a guest account or in another test account that I created with Admin privileges so I deduced it had to be isolated to the permissions on the original user account.  Additionally I was unable to log into any iCloud related features including Mail App and System Preferences. I did alter permissions previously and rooted around in areas I did not have the knowledge to properly mess around in.  No big deal since this is not my main Mac but if it would have been it would have caused a lot more angst in stead of just two days of frustration. 

My solution was not as elegant but worked.  Thank you to all the others that offered sound advice and clear instruction.   

Hey Barney, exact same problem here and this seems to be the solution out there...

but what if there are no users in the list that comes up after you run the resetpassword command in the terminal.

I must've gone into a few folders and changed up a bunch of permissions while having no idea what I was doing. Why? Not sure, but perhaps theres a simple to solution to why there are no users in that list so I may get to the next step.

Thanks for the time and concern,
TIEZ

 

but what if there are no users in the list that comes up after you run the resetpassword command in the terminal.

Make sure you've selected the startup hard drive from the menus before looking for the user.

Right!

There are no volumes or anything in any of those lists. . . What I meant to say is that whole password reset page is blank and none of the buttons can be pressed.