Lou:
You make a good point for the need to repair disk permissions even when
not installing software, which I neglected to mention. For some
reason, that I have not seen explained in these e-lists and that seems
to be a mystery to the technical experts outside Apple, the business of
the Mac OS or UNIX keeping track of the software files and folders
spontaneously goes awry. So one needs to repair disk permissions
periodically.
Al Poulin
On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:55 PM, iMac List wrote:
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From: Lou Judson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Permissions repair?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:20:57 -0800
So, why does repair permissions cure a slowed down OSX mac? Every
once=20=
in a while, without new installations, it starts taking longer and=20
longer for windows to open and thing to get done, and fixing=20
permissions restores it to snappiness. This is with both of my
iBooks,=20=
2001 600 G3 and 2005 933 G4.
I do use cron apps so they do the same thing just as well, along
with=20
other maintennance tasks they left out of X....
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Jan 9, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Al Poulin wrote:
The Disk Utility Repair Disk Permissions process has nothing to do=20
with a user's files. Nothing to do with the files for which you,
the=20=
user, control access to your files via the Get Info.
But Repair Disk Permissions has all to do with software on the Mac.
=20=
It has all to do with the operating system, the updates from Apple,=20
the applications from Apple, and third party applications. The
main=20=
benefit from repairing disk permissions is to straighten out the=20
damage that can occur through installation of some third party=20
applications. This has to do with UNIX keeping track of the
existence=20=
and whereabouts of software files and folder, not the user's files
and=20=
folders.=
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