Re: Repairing difficult permissions

Hi Pat, I think the problem would have been your DLink Router. My installation of Snow Leopard went very smoothly and reconnected to my Airport Wireless Network / Netgear DG834G v4 Router immediately on restart after installation of SL. Repair Permissions only took 2 minutes ... & only o

Re: Repairing difficult permissions

On 30/08/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Thanks, Susan, Rhonda and Peter, So, those are permission problems it is safe to ignore. Before Peter's email, I tried installing the combo update twice but it didn't work. I went on to install Snow Leopard anyway, and the problem permiss

Re: Repairing difficult permissions

On 30/08/2009, at 11:39 AM, Pat wrote: Hello, WAMuggers, A month or two back I upgraded Safari 4 and QuickTime to the most recent versions. Ever since, when I use Disk Utility to repair permissions, dozens of entries needing repair come up. They don't stay repaired, and reappear afte

Re: Repairing difficult permissions

Hi Pat, > Ever since, when I use Disk Utility to repair permissions, dozens of entries > needing repair come up. If the permissions appear as "should be ..., they are lrwxrwxrwx", these permissions do NOT need to be repaired despite what Disk Utility tells you. The critical thing to note is that

Re: Repairing difficult permissions

Hi Susan, Interesting article. If I was Pat, I would download and run the OSX Update Combo 10.5.8 "Twice" (as recommended on the link you supplied). After installing the Combo twice, then repair permissio

Re: Repairing difficult permissions

Hi Pat, its possible that upgrading to Leopard will fix the problem. See the article on this page, with links to discussions on repairing permissions problems that other people were having. Doesn't sound quite the same as your problem though. regards, Susan. http://9to5mac.com/ On 30/08/2

Repairing difficult permissions

Hello, WAMuggers, A month or two back I upgraded Safari 4 and QuickTime to the most recent versions. Ever since, when I use Disk Utility to repair permissions, dozens of entries needing repair come up. They don't stay repaired, and reappear after every restart. I know how to discard pl