If the OS is up and running you can run disk utility and do a disk
permission repair on the running system. Not sure if it is able to fix
as many things as when booted from another system but you do have the
option. You can't do a disk repair on the currently running system.
CB
On 9/2/15 10:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Guys,
Hopefully one of you all can explain this to me.
First off, I'm not saying anyone is being untruthful. It's very very!
likely that I may just not be understanding things entirely. I don't
clame to be perfect.
I have a friend who will be left unnamed who has a mac system running
Snowleopard. NO, it's not the guy on this list ironically. Anyway,
they had to recently repair disk permissions on their main internal
Macintosh HD. They can't upgrade to Yosemite, as their system won't
support it. Anyway, they have misplaced the Snowleopard DVD which
came with their system. Further, they don't have any other bootable
partition internally nor externally. So here lies my question.
How in the world were they able without the SL DVD media or another
bootable partition to repair permissions on their main primary
macintosh HD volume?
Here's the thing. From what I remember, correct me if I'm wrong,
Snowleopard didn't have a recovery partition, did it? Normally, after
Lion and higher, you could just boot, and hold down command+R to go to
recovery. From here, you could run Disk Utility, and repair
permissions. That's not going to work though in SL, as there's no
recovery that I recall, hince why you got a physical DVD back in the days.
You can't exactly repair permissions though while booted into the OS
though, as certain files and folders will be in use, and the volume
will be locked, therefore not allowing a repair to be done. So, with
no media, and no external bootable partition, and no recovery
partition, how in the world is he/she doing this? Either something's
not adding up here, or I'm just thoroughly confused, and my guess is,
probably the ladder. Just curious what on earth I'm missing here.
Enlighten me.
Chris.
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