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How do I repair Disk Permissions?

Some suggest doing at Disk permissions repair on a regular basis, especially when installing new software.

• For Mac OS X 10.2 or later, open Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/).
• Select your Mac OS X startup volume in the column on the left of the Disk Utility window
• Click the First Aid tab.
• Click the Repair Disk Permissions button.

Users are advised to read Apple pages on the use of Disk Permissions:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712

Some also advocate regular disk permission repairs (such as weekly) as a way to improve performance, although there isn't a consensus on this approach. The following is an excellent article worth reading and looking at the Pros and Cons of using disk permission repair...http://www.macworld.com/article/52220/2006/08/repairpermissions.html

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