On 30.06.2005, at 08:24, Jan Melander wrote: >>> For all you unbelievers: maybe time to read this: >>> http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php >> >> That is not quite a serious source, eh? >> >> It's just a forum posting of a person with a deep misunderstanding >> about what repairing permission is for. > > It's quite the opposite! > > It's a developer that have full knowledge about what repairing > permissions > actually does. Everybody can develop something and everybody can write something. We have only words in that "article" and, as they are, they lead into a wrong direction. > ... that all this 'Repairing > Permissions' business are actually not the universal cure that it has > mythically become. I agree. > Read the text a couple of times and You should get the > picture,'Repairing > Permissions' have become something in the minds of the OSX users > that it was > never meant to be. I'm not going to read that more than once and I got a wonderful picture :-) And I agree again, but that is not what you originally said: --- On 27.06.2005, at 15:17, Jan Melander wrote: > Just for Your information, and for everybody else interested, > repairing > permissions are just a waste of time. --- ==Here is why I actually answer again: Mail told me to delete or remove some files because there is not enough room in the home folder. There are 86 GB free. Restart did not help but repairing permissions did. It showed just a couple of lines and Mail is up again. So it is not a waste of time. Thinking about if it is a waste of time is a waste of time :-) ___ Peter Ostry