Re: Repairing permissions options?
- From: me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Király)
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:51:15 GMT
aaJoe <noemail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So is the consensus that Repair Permissions has no point at all? This
is amazing since most Mac users recommend it so often. Even
www.macosx.com does and they're supposed to be quite experienced. Or is
it only useful when and only when its used in conjunction with other
vital repair/maintenance apps?
"Repairing permissions" is often thrown out there as a magic fix for any
kind of trouble one may have on their Mac. I've even heard people
recommending it for things like strange mouse behaviour. Permissions rarely
get messed up to the point that they need repairing.
But repairing permissions IS useful for certain things. Somebody posted
in this NG recently that CD-Rs would mount on his Mac in admin accounts
but not in non-admin accounts. That sounded like a permissions issue, so
I suggested that he repair permissions. It worked.
I run the permission repair after running any software installer.
Software installers are notorious for messing them up and in some cases
can open up big security holes. I had one software installer recently
change the permissions on /Applications and /Library to make them
writable by non-administrators. Bad, bad, bad developer. Running the
permission repair fixed it.
So running the permission repair is not nonsense. But what IS nonsense
is the myriad of problems that people think will be fixed by running it.
Running it will not harm anything, it will just take a few seconds of
your time.
I disagree with the previous poster who claimed that running the
permission repair as a regular maintenance task is akin to taking
antibiotics when one is not sick. That's nonsense. Taking antibiotics
when not sick is a bad, bad idea and it can harm you. Repairing
permissions will not harm anything. All it is is a waste of time if it
doesn't fix anything.
Wouldn't it be nice if Apple stopped with the toy hardware business
(pretty computer cases, iPods, and other crap that one get in a hundred
other places)
I guess ugly computer cases are better sellers, and iPods are a flop?
Apple is primarily a hardware company, they are making lots of money off
this stuff. Dropping their bestselling hardware and focusing on software
would sink them.
and just focus on one thing: Make an OS that continues to
be free of malware AND works without spinning beach balls (can Mac users
ever look at those at a beach again without angst?!) doesn't freeze up
and doesn't let other apps freeze it up like DVD Player, Finder, Toast
to name a few. Wouldn't that be great?
That would be great, and fortunately that's exactly how it works on my
eMac with 768MB of RAM. I can't remember the last time the whole system
froze up, and when I see the spinning beachball it is usually for no more
than a second or two. I've never had a lockup caused by DVD Player,
Finder or Toast, with the exception being Finder trying to access a
network volume that has dropped offline.
What have you done to your Mac to make it run so poorly?
--
K.
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