[mac4theblind] Re: Repairing permitions
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:32:16 -0400
I still have an sl system and repair permissions from the hd. I'd actually
forgotten that you could run it from the os disc.
On May 22, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
In snow leopard it was advisable to insert your boot disk, how ever you could
do a permissions repair from the os itself. Not a good idea as some files
might be locked.
On May 21, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
> 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 Leopard 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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