Verifying disk permissions every day would only help if your disk drive is failing. The notion of fixing permissions on OS X file systems is like the idea of putting a banana in your ear to keep the elephants away. People who insist it works haven't seen an elephant nearby in years.
Al --- AL FASOLDT Author of TECHNOFILE, a weekly consumer technology column for The Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York, and Newhouse News Service, Washington, D.C.; now in its 23rd year. Blog: http://www.syracuse.com/technology/weblog Technofile Web site: http://www.technofileonline.com The Post-Standard online: http://www.syracuse.com > > If you haven't done it already, a quick and easy step would be to launch > the Disk Utility application inside the Utilities folder that's inside your > Applications folder. Select your startup drive and then be sure you have > selected the FirstAid tab in the window. You will see two buttons, "Verify > Disk Permissions" and "Repair Disk Permissions"; click on the "Repair Disk > Permissions" button and let it run until it reports it is finished. See if > that fixes the problem. > > Incidentally, I recommend to my clients that they do this procedure EVERY > DAY at the beginning of their "computing day" (that is, whenever they use > the computer for the first time that day). -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
