Thank goodness. That option has been misleading more people, and doing more harm, than it ever should have been allowed to. If not for the early days of Apple’s own self-inflicted problems caused by sloppy installers, which have long since gone, the option would have no use at all. It has since been a placebo. Permissions don’t experience bit rot, any more than other part of the file system. And, in fact, typically repairing them will cause more problems than it solves, for example because setup processes have changed permissions intentionally and the installer catalog (the BOM) is not updated to reflect those changes. Never repair permissions on a server install, for example.
So just don’t bother. Soon, you won’t have to. Limit yourself to checking and repairing the file systems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
