Repair Disk Permissions isn’t working…

[Kevin Monahan]

Boot to the OS X install disk and repair the disk and its permissions from there.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Michael Orlansky]

Thanks for the quick response.

I was always under the impression that you’re supposed to repair permissions while booted from the disk that contains OS X that you’re trying to repair, but I’ll certainly give it a shot booted from the install disc.

Thank you.

Thanks,
Mike

[Chris Poisson]

If that doesn’t work try using Leopard Cache Cleaner. It’s free.

Have a wonderful day.

[Michael Orlansky]

Repairing from the install disc did not work, I’ll try the Leopard Cache Cleaner and report back. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks,
Mike

[Zane Barker]

In my experience disk utility can often find minor permission issues. Usualy they are things with printer drivers or other minor applications. Often it is because the applicatio, driver, or whatever has some funny code or something.

99% of the time when disk utility continualy finds things it is not a real problem.

What permissions issues does disk utility continualy find? Is it the same thing everytime?

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Rafael Amador]

In Mac OSX there are some kind of accumulative errors.
So there are certain errors can not be fixed until some other have been fixed before.
When I run DiskWarrior, most of the time the directories are not 100% cleaned at firt try.
A second pass, after Repairing Permissions, normally works.
I don’t see Repairing Permissions much useful if doesn’t go together with a more deep optimization.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Michael Orlansky]

Yes it appears to find the same incorrect permissions each time. They look to be minor issues, things with User Templates, Front Row and iTunes.

No one seems to be having any significant issues other than printing but I figured after running a big update it would be a good idea.

Thanks for all the responses.

Thanks,
Mike