Q: Disk Utility
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Oct 14, 2013 11:19 AMby COCO68,Hello pagille,
yes i clicked on repair disk permissions, and its always the same history that appears once its finished processing and its always itunes, and when its finished it says permissions repair complete, and then I press clear history but if I complete another repair disk permissions its the same history over and over again, evertime I click clear history it will clear but is back again if I repeat the process. Also am I supposed to carry out a repair disk permissions occassionally or leave it alone.
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Oct 14, 2013 11:25 AMby Baby Boomer (USofA),Helpfulfirst time carried out a disk utility clean
Do you mean you "repaired permissions?" Since Snow Leopard, DU "history" does not clear. Check out the following KB Article:
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
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Oct 14, 2013 11:31 AMby Old Toad,HelpfulAny of the messages include something like these?
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Opps, it's Baby Boomer by a nose.
OT
Message was edited by: Old Toad
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Oct 14, 2013 11:33 AMby Pagaille,Indeed : if you're talking about the permissions, all those messages can be simply ignored. I admit it's a bit strange and unusal when talking about the way Apple makes things. But Disk Utility is a very low level system tool - be careful with it.
And, one more thing : most of the time (I mean : 99% of the time), you can just forget about those permissions. The system will check them silently once a month, and bad permissions aren't the source of most of the problems you could encounter except if you're really playing the fool with your system.
Worth reading : http://www.macworld.com/article/1052220/repairpermissions.html
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Oct 14, 2013 11:41 AMby COCO68,Thank you everyone, I was worried. I am on Mountain Lion baby boomer. Someone told me that I should check the disk utility, but obviously I don't need to. I was trying to see if it made any difference to my mac as its running very slow when gaming. Someone told me that mac's are very bad for leaking memory, I haven't got a clue what there talking about.
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Oct 14, 2013 11:45 AMby Pagaille,A memory leakage is due to a software not clearing memory not used anymore, to say it very simply. This is not the fault of the OS but the one the developper.
What do you mean by your computer running "very slowly" ? Maybe the game you're trying to make run is simply too heavy for your computer ? Most of the time you should look on the graphic adapter side. iMac aren't the most powerful and gamer-centric machine you can find...
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