Repairing permissions

[Charlie Warden]

Daiya Mitchell wrote recently that " Anyhow, try repairing permissions, and
then restarting the computer.

Go to /Applications/Utilities. Open up Disk Utility. Select your hard disk
and then click the First Aid tab. Click the button to ³Repair Disk
Permissions.²
Tell your daughter about repairing permissions, as it is basic maintenance
that should be done every month or two."

I have never heard that before. I did it. Fine! But what is involved? How
do permissions become incorrect? Does repairing them do good things to the
system? I use a G-4 OS X.3.7.

Thanks for the info in advance -- Charlie

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Daiya Mitchell wrote recently that " Anyhow, try repairing permissions, and
then restarting the computer.

I have never heard that before. I did it. Fine! But what is involved? How
do permissions become incorrect? Does repairing them do good things to the
system? I use a G-4 OS X.3.7.

Permissions can go awry after upgrading the OS and sometimes after
installing new applications or app upgrades. Or for unknown reasons...

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Paul Berkowitz
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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Permissions can go awry after upgrading the OS and sometimes after
installing new applications or app upgrades. Or for unknown reasons...

I repair them after all major install, before all major upgrade or at
least once a month.

The system uses a BOM (bill of Material) defined by the informations
stores in the .pkg you use for installing. When you repair permissions,
the System checks that the permissions of the files installed correspond
to what they should be (defined by these .pkg).
Of course, if the applications are not installed with the MacOS X System
installer, there is no Permission information the system can use, but
believe me, repairing permissions can make a tremendous difference in
terms of performance, stability and simply access to files and
applications.


Corentin