On 2010/11/05 11:44, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
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.
While that is *generally* good advice, sometimes repairing permissions
is needed. I had a situation fairly recently where I could not write to
my home directory, repairing permissions took hours to run and returned
hundreds or thousands of ACLs but it would not fix my home directory
permissions problem. Removing the ACLs and re-running repair permissions
was the only thing that I was able to do that fixed the problem.
Tina
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