Hi Christina, On 19 Jan 2010, at 19:27, Christina wrote: > What is repairing permissions? Is this a safe thing to do and where do I do > this? Mac OS X is built upon UNIX, which uses Permissions to define a user's rights to access on the operating system. Permissions give users the ability to access certain files and folders as well as the ability (for certain users i.e. guests) to create and delete them too. Over the course of using your Mac, you can change these Permissions for a number of reasons, but it is always a good idea to periodically "repair" them using the "First Aid" feature in Disk Utility. This procedure restores the Permissions to their default values which can fix a whole host of problems as well as prevent others from occurring. To repair Permissions, do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility by doing one of the following; either open Spotlight (usually with Command Space I think) and type in "Disk" without the quotations. Or open the Finder and navigate to the Utilities folder which you will find in the Applications folder. In the Utilities folder, you'll find Disk Utility. 2. Select the HD you want to repair from the table of available disks. 3. (The First Aid tab should be selected by default), but if not, select that tab and navigate to the "Repair Permissions" button and click. The "repair" could take a while depending upon how many need fixing and how often you do it and yes, it is a perfectly safe procedure. NB You can also click on "Verify Permissions", which will scan your Permissions and tell you if they need to be repaired or not, but I would always run the "repair" anyway to be on the safe side. I hope this helps, but I am sure others on this list will be able to offer you better advice¬. TC James > I have a macbook that is almost two years old and I've been having the exact > same issues ever since upgrading to SL. Safari is slow and I constantly get > the safari busy, safari ready, busy message. I also sometimes encounter > sluggish typing of text. I feel like I'm typing in mud or water. This issue > comes and goes. I have cleared out my cache in safari and that does not help > at all. > > I am actually quite frustrated. I cannot even go to an amazon page. Safari > just stays stuck there with the busy, ready message over and over and never > will allow me to access the page. I end up having to force quit safari. > > What is repairing permissions? Is this a safe thing to do and where do I do > this? What is the benefitt of this program you mentioned to help delete > cached files. I do this right in Safari, is this program better than using > Safari to delete cached files. > > Thanks so much for any help, > Christina > On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On my MacBook Pro 13 that I bought in October, it feels like everything is >> slowing down. The Item Chooser menu causes the "Safari Busy" announcement >> at least once but more times on particularly big pages. >> >> This is a fast computer (2.26 Core 2 and 4 gb RAM) but it gets slower all of >> the time. Sometimes, I can even type ahead of the thing (especially in >> Mail) where I find that my misspellings are usually due to a missing letter. >> >> Has anyone else, using one of these newer models, seen something similar? If >> so, does anyone have a cure? If not, can anyone guess at a solution? >> >> cdh >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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