What repair permissions does is reset the permissions to the original installed permissions that are found in Library/Receipts. Doing this may corrupt or reset any custom or necessary permission changes that have taken effect by recent Apple Updates, program updates, or Hard Drive maintenance. Running a repair permissions there-by is basically pressing the "reset" button on all your programs, hopefully bringing them back to the original state...which is usually not a good thing. What you may see, as in previous versions of Quark, is programs throwing errors due to wrong permissions, after repairing permissions! Ah the quandaries of UNIX.
I would suggest backing up then deleting all the preference files that have to do with the troubled program, in this case Entourage. Also, I would first suggest a database compact and if that does not work a database rebuild. If you are looking for maintenance (housecleaning) programs I would suggest these two: Preferential Treatment http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/html/pt.html Maintenance 3.6 http://www.automatorworld.com/archives/maintenance/ And of course TechTool and DriveGenius if you suspect hardware or would like to "defrag" your hard drive ;) ----- Jimmy Schrage Computer Support Technician IV Macintosh Support College of the Canyons (661)362-5536 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Annesley Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:22 PM To: Entourage Mac Talk Subject: Re: Reply All isn't working Jimmy, I'd welcome further comment from you as to why it should be a "last resort". I am no computer buff, and have been led to believe that repairing permissions was a form of "housekeeping" and thereby assisted in keeping a "clean" and "happy" Mac . Thanks in advance. Regards, Fred Annesley. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0747889239 > From: "Schrage, Jimmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:31:08 -0800 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Conversation: Reply All isn't working > Subject: RE: Reply All isn't working > > I disagree with everything he wrote. Repairing permissions should be a > last resort fix. > > ----- > > Jimmy Schrage > Computer Support Technician IV > Macintosh Support > College of the Canyons > (661)362-5536 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Reply All isn't working > > 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). It only takes a few seconds, > just enough to do it while you get a cup of coffee or check voice mail, > and > it prevents many "mystery" problems that otherwise creep into your rig > through normal use. While doing it that frequently is considered by many > to > be overkill, it's easy to REMEMBER and make a HABIT of doing it > regularly; > any first-year psychology major will tell you that once something > becomes a > habit, it feels easy and one can rely on doing it with little or no > thought, something that putting it on a calendar or remembering to do > every > Monday just doesn't match for reliability. And like the proverbial "You > can > never be too rich or too thin..." mantra of yore, you can definitely > never > repair permissions too frequently, either. ;-) > > Regards, > > Don Levy > The MacTherapist > Los Angeles > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Double Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:00:24 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Reply All isn't working > > > Hello all, > > We're having a peculiar problem that the Reply All isn't working. It > only > grabs the From: addresses and nothing from the To: and CC: fields. This > started happening about two weeks ago. > > We've checked rules, did a simple clean-up, etc. > > Thank you, Nicholas. > > Office 2004 Version 11.2.5 (060620) on iMac G3. > > > > -- > 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/> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > -- > 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/> > > -- > 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/> > -- 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/> -- 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/>
