On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Tina K. wrote:
If the time it takes is too excessive for your needs, they can be
removed in Terminal by an app named ACLr8:
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32415/aclr8>
DO NOT DO THAT to the files that Permissions Repair touches. You run a
very good chance of causing problems with the OS. ACL's are applied to
files for a reason.
Fundamentally, Repair Permissions is a 10.2 (and later) fix to
problems that typically only occurred in 10.1.
See:
<http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo>
Stop doing Repair Permissions. Permissions do not age, or decay;
they're altered by installers that are not correct, a problem that was
largelky fixed by the new INstaller in 10.2. The only time RP works is
iff something breaks immediately after a System Update.
So stop fretting, and stop running RP.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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