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 > web at http://wics.cc and thanks for tuning in. > > 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.