I have just had to repair my disk permissions for the third time in two days. Can anyone suggest a cause of this problem?
The report seems to be mainly about iTunes files. I created a second iTunes library about a week ago and I wonder if that has something to do with it.
I am using Mountain Lion.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I would not worry about it. FWIW, that function has been completely eliminated in El Capitan (it is now being taken care of in the background and no longer a user accessible function, possibly because it was a hit + miss thing anyway - there was a very long list of permissions which could be ignored).
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore - Apple Support
it's true what he says bowa
Why do you think you need to repair permissions?
I naturally believed that if something was wrong it need to be corrected. I now understand that this part of the system is redundant and can be ignored. However it is a fact that after running the permissions repair approx 40mb of my disk was freed up.
Why Excessive Repair of disk permissions?
