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  • OT: DiskWarrior vs. Repair Permissions

    Posted by John Fishback on November 14, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    I’ve used DW for years and have also used Repair Permissions (after trashing prefs). I sort of knew that both DW and Repair Permissions both affected the disk’s directory, but I didn’t know if the order of using DW & RP mattered. I contacted support at DW and they replied, “You always want to rebuild the directory first (with DW). Then, repair permissions. Since repairing permissions changes information in the directory, you want the directory to be in a pristine condition first.”

    John

    MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
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    Rafael Amador replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Andy Mees

    November 15, 2009 at 1:04 am

    Appreciate your sharing the feedback from Alsoft, John… you never know when someone might be asking themselves a similar question.

    That said, I’m guessing its just the original subject line, but in case anyone else wanders along later and finds themselves confused because of it … Disk Warrior and Repair Permissions are totally different operations; Repair Permissions compares the permissions of a subset of files (the basic OS instal) within your existing directory and if it finds any permissions that are not set according to their predetermined state then it changes them back, Disk Warrior on the other hand builds/rebuilds an entirely new directory to completely replace the old one, not a permissions check but a brand new directory, thereby fixing many possible corruption issues beyond mere permissions bits.

    Best
    Andy

  • John Fishback

    November 15, 2009 at 3:11 am

    Thanks for the further clarification, Andy. That’s good to know.

    John

    MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
    FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

    Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

  • Rafael Amador

    November 15, 2009 at 11:30 am

    I guess must be a kind of accumulative errors. Some times is necessary to run it few times till the graphic is clean.
    You fully clean them or go just with one pass?
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

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