On Aug 4, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Mike Linnett wrote:
On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:34, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote:
Using Disk Repair should be fine. But don't try Repair Permissions
that way, that will mess things up.
I think it must've been the "don't cross pollinate repair
permissions" thing that I'd remembered and was giving me concerns!
Not true.
You can safely Repair Permissions. Repair Permissions gets the correct
permissions from the Library>Receipts folder. There seems to be this
crazy internet rumor about "don't 'cross-pollinate' repair
permissions" which implies the each version of OS X does it's own
thing, and the "rumor" says the you must only use Disk Utility on the
same volume you're repairing - NOT TRUE - you can use Repair
Permissions on ANY volume because Disk Utility gets the correct
permissions from THAT VOLUME itself, not from some external source or
Disk Utility.app itself. It is probably a good idea not to use an
older version of Disk Utility to repair a newer version volume, but
this WON'T CAUSE DAMAGE, it will simply might not be aware of newer OS
X permissions parameters such as ACLs that also might need repair.
You'd have a partial repair rather than a complete repair, but it
WON'T DAMAGE YOUR VOLUME. As far as that goes, Repair Permissions
generally won't help anything at all, so this whole "rumor" thing
about Repair Permissions is crazy because 99.9% of the time running
Repair Permissions won't solve anything at all. See:
<http://www.unsanity.org/archives/rant/exercises_in_fu.php>
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