How do I repair Disk Permissions?
Written by Murray Whittington 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
Last Updated Friday, 25 April 2008
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