So then, what would be the case where you would need to go into the
recovery first, as Apple has always told me to do it that way. I'm
not doubting either of you. Please know that. I'm just trying to
increase my knowledge on this.
Chris.
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*From:* Tim Kilburn <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:49 AM
*Subject:* Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk
permissions
Hi,
An addition to chris B's explanation, as the root user, in any
MacOS version, you are able to manipulate and/or modify
permissions on any active files. This, in itself, is scary and
one of the reasons why you need to be very cautious when doing
anything as the root user or even enabling the root user. So,
repairing permissions does not require a Recovery Partition nor a
separate startup volume, you just may be limited in what gets
repaired. In 95% of the cases that something needs repaired, it
can be done while still logged in to the running system.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Sep 2, 2015, at 08:53, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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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