Hello, I had also that problem yesterday and, it is enough to select the right disc , not with the numbers of gb on it but the name. I mean, you see normally 2 lines in the disclist in the disc-utility app. I was also a litle bit surprised about this but I think it works. So, there is no need to boot the recovery partition I think. Hope this helps, William Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 25-jul.-2011 om 05:30 heeft James Dean <professordean@xxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven: > The best way I've found to do this is to turn on your mac. After you hear the > chime, hold down command+R. Hold it down for several seconds. Give it about > two or three minutes to come up, and press command+F5, after which you will > hear Fred's melodious tones. The rest of the recovery partition, which you > have landed in, is very self-explanatory. Disc utility is there and it works > just like the one in the OS does, only, this time, your "Repair permissions" > will be undimmed. You could also boot into a Lion DVD if you made one by > holding down the C key at start-up until you hear the disc spinning rapidly, > at which point give it some time to come up and you can press command+F5 as > before. > > HTH, > > James A. Dean > > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Larry Smith wrote: > >> Hi list. I don't seem to be having any problems with lion at this time. >> However, I would like to run permissions. When I go to disc utilities folder >> and choose first aid tab and then try to choose repair permissions, it is >> dimmed out. The only item that is not dimmed is verify disc. By the way, I >> did choose the hard drive which I wanted to run permissions. There's only >> one disc any. Thanks for any suggestions.> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >