On Jun 9, 2007, at 10:39 PM, TjL wrote:
It's already been said that this is definitely not caused by
Yojimbo but it's also important to realize that "repair" is a
misnomer when talking about permissions. The permissions are
actually being "Reset to what they were initially set to" which may
or may not be what they should be set to.
Summary: just because OS X says that it did something when you
"repaired" permissions, it doesn't really mean that anything was
wrong, just that something had changed.
A better explanation is here
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo
I usually agree with John Gruber, and he's usually right on the
money, but he's just flat wrong on this one. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1928.html
where Apple _explicitly_ recommends repairing permissions as a
routine maintenance task:
"It's a good idea to repair disk permissions as a regular maintenance
task after upgrading or installing new software."
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