On Nov 5, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Tina K. wrote: > 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.
Removing the ACL's likely cured the issue; repair permission never touches ANYTHING but system directories and some applications in the Application directory. It never even traverses /Users. If you do go removing ACL's like this, restrict it to userspace items: your home directory and files and folders created by you. Don't do it to the whole system... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
