reading: "A single "First Aid" button replaces the old buttons to verify and fix your disk and its permissions—it verifies the disk, but permission repair has been relegated to the command line tool. Other things are gone from the GUI version, too—disk images like ISOs and DMGs can't be opened in Disk Utility anymore, and though the Finder (and the command line tool) can still burn ISOs to CDs or DVDs, Disk Utility no longer offers to. And secure erase options for disks are no longer available in the GUI. Apple's support document <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201949> claims its SSDs don't need a secure erase feature, though to be sure you could always encrypt the disk and then wipe it from the recovery partition or a USB install drive. One could argue that these are "legacy" features, but they're still useful for the many, many older Macs that El Capitan supports.” ref: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/preview-os-x-el-capitans-first-beta-is-a-promising-heap-of-refinements/3/ <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/preview-os-x-el-capitans-first-beta-is-a-promising-heap-of-refinements/3/>
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:11 PM, gmail <[email protected]> wrote: > > wow, sounds like quite a ride? > pooches along as well? > > yeah i meant permissions repair…seems like it was left out of DU all together. > still poking around, maybe i need a rounder tip… > >> On Jul 14, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 6:26 AM, gmail <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> we are so quiet lately…;) >> >> We’ve been on a 2 1/2 week road trip, fun but exhausting…nearly 4000 miles, >> spent time in Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite, Portland, Oregon Coast and along the >> Columbia River. >> >> Protip: hitting the northern Oregon coast on July 4th during a heatwave is a >> dumb, dumb idea. We started looking for a place to stay in Tillamook, and >> ended up in Clatskanie before we found a place to stay (and there we got the >> next-to-last motel room!) It was a scenic drive along the coast with the >> 13,498 other cars stuck in traffic... >> >> many pix will be forthcoming once I wrangle an album on flikr. >> >>> >>> looking over el capitan beta. i’m using disk utility…¡new interface!…¿no >>> preference repair? >> >> Presuming you mean ‘permissions repair’? That was always a kludge for a >> problem in 10.1.5 that was mostly fixed in 10.2. I’ve only seen it fix an >> actual problem 3 times in all those years since. >> >> Once I have the ‘first day back to the office’ stuff wrangled, I’m going to >> dig out the testbed Mac and install it. >> >> -- >> Bruce Johnson >> University of Arizona >> College of Pharmacy >> Information Technology Group >> >> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "StrataList-OT" 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/stratalist-ot. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" 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/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
