[mac4theblind] Re: Repairing permitions

  • From: Tracy Duffy <tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:45:56 -0400

Good heavens! Is that how it's done in lion, or is that just how you do it? I'm 
still running snow leopard and I can just go into apps, and then utility and go 
from there. Wow!


On May 21, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

>       Shut down your mac and go to your recovery drive with cmd r while 
> powering  it up.. then turn on voice over after holding down cmd r for about 
> 15 seconds and arrow down to disk utility. Now go to the disk you want and go 
> to the first aid tab to the  right of the table. select  it with space and go 
> to the repair permissions button and  hit it. 
> 
> Take care.
> 
> Sarah Alawami, owner and founder of WICS Radio America. Check us out on the 
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> 
> On May 20, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jenny Keller <jlperdue3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> can one of you tell me how that's done.  what I really mean is, where in the 
>> menus do you go to find repair permissions?
>> 
>> I don't think I've ever seen that before, but I'm still new at this.
>> 
>> Thanks for all of your help and putting up with my frustration.
>> 
>> Jenny
>> On May 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Tracy Duffy wrote:
>> 
>>> Can someone please explain, probably off list, what actually is happening 
>>> when you do a repair permissions? I mean I don't want all the technical 
>>> details, but what is happening and why do permissions differ in the first 
>>> place? I just ran a repair permissions and it fixed a ton of stuff, so I'm 
>>> wondering what it was doing and why they needed to be fixed to start with. 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Isaiah 2:11 Human pride will be brought down, 
>>>       and human arrogance will be humbled. 
>>>    Only the LORD will be exalted 
>>>       on that day of judgment.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx
Isaiah 2:11 Human pride will be brought down, 
      and human arrogance will be humbled. 
   Only the LORD will be exalted 
      on that day of judgment.



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