Q: How long is this process supposed to take?
Does 3 days sound like too long? I followed all the steps in the HT205331 article but in the last step, after getting the message "started verify/repair permissions on disk0s2", I get a row of moving back slashes seemingly forever. Activity monitor shows that diskutil is working, but very slowly. So far, it shows 15.4M reads, 1.6M writes and (slowly) counting. Data written is at ~100 GB. If it is supposed to go through the entire 1 TB HD, then it will probably take a month to complete. Diagnostic and Usage in Console shows plenty of sandbox system-policy-violation messages, which are probably slowing the process down.
Before quitting this process, I was wondering if anyone has any insight into this problem. Wouldn't repairing permissions with Disk Utility be better? What is the difference?
Or is the process very slow because I have an old machine (MacPro Eight Core 2.8, early 2008, 10 GB RAM) and lots of files? This happened after upgrading to El Capitan: can't open Mail because email library won't upgrade. Everything else seems to work OK so far.
Thanks to anyone with advice on this.
Mac Pro (Early 2008), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Oct 19, 2015 5:17 PM