I am getting a substantial number of permission repairs - like hundreds - when I run Repair Disk Permissions from Disk Utility on my new Mac Pro (late 2013).
Any thoughts on what might be wrong?
New Mac Pro (late 2013)
Running OS X 10.9.2
Thanks
Mac Pro (Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Although it’s immensely popular, repairing permissions is a waste of time unless you have a specific indication of a permission error involving system files, which is rare, or a boot failure. It is not a universal rite of healing for computers. It has traditionally spewed bogus warning messages that mean absolutely nothing.
The built-in help for Disk Utility reads in part:
If you see an alert or a message that says your permissions are set incorrectly, you can correct the disk’s permissions by clicking Repair Disk Permissions.
It’s justifiable, though rarely necessary, to repair permissions after running a third-party software installer, as defective installers have been known to damage the permissions of system files.
Here is an article with eight pages of those messages that you can safely ignore:
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
... basically, all of them unless they appear in RED.
Thanks for the assistance.
New Mac Pro (late 2013) disk permissions
