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Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything?

From J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything?
Date 2013-10-26 18:35 -0400
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On 10/26/13 2:25 PM, Matthew Lybanon wrote:
> Mac OS X 10.8.5.
>
> After installing several system updates I ran Disk Utility's Repair Disk
> Permissions.  Because "Show details" gave a fairly long list of
> (presumably) repairs, I ran it again, just to see what would happen.  It
> found what I think is the same list of things to repair (I didn't check
> every one, but it was a similarly long list and several items were
> repeats of items in the first list), and again claimed to fix them.
>
> I know it looks like I've answered my own question, but I'd like to know
> what other people think.
>
Is it iTunes? I've read that the latest update confuses Disk Utility's 
Verify Permissions.

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Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-26 13:25 -0500
  Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-26 19:35 +0000
  Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-26 18:35 -0400
  Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-26 19:03 -0400
    Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-27 12:22 +1300
      Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-26 20:24 -0400
    Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-27 20:10 +0000
      Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-27 21:38 +0000
      Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-27 19:00 -0400
  Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-27 13:15 +1300
    Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-27 11:35 -0500
      Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-27 15:52 -0400
      Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-27 21:05 +0000
  Re: Does Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions Do Anything? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-27 19:49 +0000

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