[mac4theblind] Re: Repairing permitions
- From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:47:34 +0100
Hi Tracey, well in a way I find it is better because correct me if I'm wrong
but didn't one have to insert there respective OSX disc to do a repair?
Where as in Lion one just needs to boot into the recovery mode and away they
go.
Did you had to insert your Snow Lepard disc at all to do the task?
Daniel
On 21 May 2012, at 21:45, Tracy Duffy wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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