Recently, without really knowing why, I decided to "Repair Permissions" (probably something I read in MacWorld, but at the time, I didn't know "Permissions" from an Intel chip). Now I figure "Permissions" is probably not a real concern of mine; I'm the only one who ever uses my Mac and can't imagine anyone else would ever want to read or write to anything on it. But to back up a bit: I went to First Aid and selected Permission Repair. It repaired several. Then I went to Verify Disk, and I got the following (in red):
"Volume Header needs minor repair" "The volume HD needs to be repaired" "Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit" And under "1 HRS volume checked": "Volume needs repair To do this, I was told to start up from my OS X install disk, then choose Utilities>Disk Utilities. But the install disk is for OS X 2.7 and when I ran it, it tried to install X 2.7 (I'm running OS X 4.6). I didn't want to do that! My OS X 4.4.3 update disk apparently has only the install program and Xcode 2. My Mac is running fine. Q: is this a case of if it ain't broke, don't fix it? If it needs to be fixed, what do I do? Much thanks, Nolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060418/971b342c/attachment.html
