Comments on: Troubleshooting Tips 1: Repairing Permissions

By: Michael Wade

Michael Wade — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:40:11 +0000

Thanks. I think this info really helped. But you should know the word you were looking for is whether, not weather.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:45:21 +0000

Repairing disk permissions has often worked for me, when applications repeatedly crash and (for example) when Itunes refuses to read a music CD.

But those who believe that the Mac OS is superior to Windows, might care to explain how a novice Mac user is supposed to find out how to repair permissions. Someone ought to do a survey to find out how many Mac users have given up using some of their Mac’s applications because nobody can tell them how to fix it and they don’t want to spend money at a repair centre.

By: Sopek

Sopek — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:21:28 +0000

I recenlty bought Apple’s new mighty mouse, since installing it, I’ve been crashing 3-4 times a day, I hope repairing the permission will fix it.

Thanks
Sophek

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:21:48 +0000

I use Macaroni to repair permissions automatically every day. All I do is turn my machine on, and Macaroni looks after the rest. I have had minor problems only on rare occasions, but they quickly disappear next day. I have crashes only on very rare occasions–say, once every three or four months.

By: madamX

madamX — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:18:47 +0000

I’ve repaired permissions and had good results with it. However, I usually run Onyx instead, since it does a multiplicity of things. I have never run the “optimize disk” routine tho.

My questions is this….
I have admin permissions and the user has everything but admin. Should I run repair permission from the admin side or does it matter?

By: Twist

Twist — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:50:57 +0000

I have had to fix a computer with major permission related problems in the past and repairing permissions didn’t help any. The problem was with the users files in their iTunes and iPhoto libraries.

By: Ronaldinho

Ronaldinho — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:44:25 +0000

Yawn. Repairing permissions is not useless. It’s fixed major problems for me more than once. Does it fix everything? No.

But the author of “repairing permissions is useless” is basically claiming that becuase he’s never had a problem that repairing permissions fixed, they must not really exist.

Well, you know, I’ve never seen a great white shark in person, either, but I’m pretty confident they exist.

It’s not a placebo. I’ve fixed major things wrong with OSX (for example, an iBook’s CD drive not working) by repairing permissions.

So anyone who thinks that repairing permissions is useless is just wrong.

By: Rich Trouton

Rich Trouton — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:03:33 +0000

One great thing about repairing permissions is that you can automate this via cron, if you never want to deal with it. I have my system set up with a repair permissions shell script tucked into my daily crontab, so every morning my Mac (and the other Macs I manage) have their permissions repaired every morning at 3:30AM. Since my team’s done this, we haven’t run into many permission issues.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:17:28 +0000

I can now see that Rosyna is a brilliant software engineer, but that’s as far as it goes. Declaring that repair permissions and zapping PRAM are useless it sheer idiocy.

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:59:59 +0000

No, really, repairing permissions is useless unless you have a problem you’re pretty sure is permission-related.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:45:06 +0000

Yes… thank you.. Twist already posted that particular link.

By: Clint Ecker

Clint Ecker — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:43:43 +0000

Repairing Permissions is Useless. Rosyna at Unsanity explains why repairing the permissions on your computer is a complete placebo 99.9% of the time.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:09:56 +0000

Hey now,
I’ve had permissions repair save my ass more than once.

By: Twist

Twist — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:02:44 +0000

Repairing permissions is pretty much a waste of time. From my own experience it is worthless as a problem correcting measure since most of the time if the permissions have been corrupted then the file is most likely is corrupt as well. To learn what repairing permissions really does (besides wasting your time) I suggest you read this post.