Nora, Lee says you don't really need to worry about repairing permissions and I trust him completely. If you do maintenance by rebuilding the directory every so often you might go ahead and do it then since it is also one of the things DiskWarrior will do, otherwise it probably isn't necessary. Do it at the same time as part of your routine.
I haven't defragmented a drive for years, TechTools Pro allows you to do so but everything seems to run fine by updating the directory. Maybe it would help but I have not taken the time, maybe someone else can better answer this. John On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Nora Probasco wrote: > John, > > It actually didn't confuse DW as it put a screen asking which drive I wanted > to rebuild the directory for. I was impressed at how well it worked. I also > used it to fix permissions. By the way, do I need to fix permissions on the > other disks, especially since the Super Duper disk is copying the whole drive > with system? Someone on this list recommended DiskWarrior and I am so glad I > purchased it. I now highly recommend it also. > > Years ago when I was using Norton Systemworks (yuk!), there were functions > for optimizing the speed on your disk and realigning your hard drive memory. > Do we no longer need to do that? > > Nora > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, John Robinson <prof...@insightbb.com> wrote: > Nora, > > So glad this helped but you won't need to do it each month. I doubt you have > ever done it and just now your machine was getting problematic. You will > begin to notice the applications taking a long time to load and quit, you'll > see more spinning balls and who knows maybe 6 months down the road you will > need to do it again, maybe longer. > > Remember, on the external drives to unmount and turn them off (if not on the > boot with DiskWarrior they will once again appear and confuse DW). Once > DiskWarrior is running then turn on all your drives and they will be > available in the selection window for the drive to rebuild. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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