On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:56 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > 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
Is that a mis-read or typing error? Perhaps should read ["1 HFS volume checked":] as in the type of formatted volume you just tested. > 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. If you booted using the DVD, quit the installer, and open the icon for the disk and look for Disk Utility; probably located in the folder Applications > Utilities at the base level of the disk. And didn't you recently buy Tiger? ...v10.4.3, if I remember right. That disk should also be bootable and would contain it's own Disk Utility also. Run First Aid from there (disk repair, not permissions) if you can and see if it yields a different outcome. Baring that, can you boot from an external disk that you've also kept current to v10.4.6? Try running First Aid on your primary disk from there. > 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 Some ideas, anyway. : ) Regards, Russ Preston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060419/aff1a13f/attachment.html
