Yes, Chris. It does. That now makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification.
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions Let me try to clarify. When running Disk Utility there are two maintenance functions you can do - Permission Repair and Disk Repair. The first one can be done on a live booted disk or partition. The second one can only be done on a partition that isn't being used to boot up a machine. In the case where you don't have a recovery partition and don't have another drive to boot off of you'll be limited to doing a permission repair. Even then, I suspect it can't repair as much because many files are in use. The better way is to boot off another drive, partition, thumbdrive or recovery partition and then do the permission repair. This also allows you to do a disk repair. Hope this helps clear up when you can use the two very similar named functions. CB On 9/2/15 10:59 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: Wait, now I'm even more confused. First, it seems like you're saying you can do it, but you're not sure to what extent. Now, look at the second part of what you say. Then, you said, you can't do it on the running system. So, I'm confused. Which is it? Can you, or not? LOL! Sorry for the confusion. Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions 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. -- 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]. 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