I run Disk Utilites and get a load of permissions problems. If I close it out and reopen, and run it again, the same problems show up again. It says every time that it repairs it, but it doesn't. Other companies want me to buy things like Disk Warrior to fix it. But I did that with another program and it didn't work. What's the problem?
Mike
iMac
What permissions? Usually this is related to an ACL on a folder/file.
See:
Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages you can safely ignore
I run Disk Utilities and run "first aid" and "repair". On the log, it shows permissions problems. A lot of them. Although it says they are corrected, I run it again and they show up again. Why don't they get corrected and disappear? I don't know what ACL is .
Mike
As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = read
w = write
x = executeable program
drwxrwxrwx
| | |
| | all other users not in first two types
| |
| group
|
owner
a little more info
Before the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.
If you are running Panther or Tiger:
Disk untilities won't clear permissions after running. They just stay there. What's the problem?
