Chris Moore <thinkdeep@...> wrote >2. Once a week or so, "Repair Disk Permissions" on your partitions of >the physical hard drive. This can be done at any time by going to your >UTILITIES folder (within the Applications folder) and using the Disk >Utility program. Is it necessary to "verify" the disk permissions before you repair them? Is this verification intended to inform the user whether or not they need to repair or is it intended to inform the computer what the repairs should be. I always verify first (or, I should say, click on the verify button, never do I attempt to read the verification list/log), but I assume that if you just click "repair" the OS does the proper verification for its one needs. But if this is true, why is therre a verify option? Does reparing the permissions age the disk or something undesirable like that? Jimmy

On 2-Feb-04, at 8:54 AM, Jimmy Rickson wrote: > Is it necessary to "verify" the disk permissions before you repair > them? Is this verification intended to inform the user whether or not > they need to repair or is it intended to inform the computer what the > repairs should be. I always verify first (or, I should say, click on > the verify button, never do I attempt to read the verification > list/log), but I assume that if you just click "repair" the OS does > the proper verification for its one needs. But if this is true, why > is therre a verify option? Does reparing the permissions age the disk > or something undesirable like that? Jimmy, funny, this is exactly what i thought yesterday. I'm having problems loading songs with an opened instance of Absynth 2. I tried repairing the permissions, it didn't do the trick. So please can some OSX guru shed some light on the "verify/repair" dilemma? :: Kim les studios AKIDO Quebec, Canada http://www.akido.biz :: Powerbook G4 1 Ghz // OS X Panther // Mobile I/O 2882 // Logic Platinum ::

On a fine day, 02-02-2004, AKIDO wrote: >On 2-Feb-04, at 8:54 AM, Jimmy Rickson wrote: > >> Is it necessary to "verify" the disk permissions before you repair >> them? Is this verification intended to inform the user whether or not >> they need to repair or is it intended to inform the computer what the >> repairs should be. I always verify first (or, I should say, click on >> the verify button, never do I attempt to read the verification >> list/log), but I assume that if you just click "repair" the OS does >> the proper verification for its one needs. But if this is true, why >> is therre a verify option? Does reparing the permissions age the disk >> or something undesirable like that? > >Jimmy, >funny, this is exactly what i thought yesterday. I'm having problems >loading songs with an opened instance of Absynth 2. I tried repairing >the permissions, it didn't do the trick. > >So please can some OSX guru shed some light on the "verify/repair" >dilemma? By no means a guru, but yes, you can simply pick 'repair' and the system will repair itself. As for the 'verify' button: in a way it's useless, but it's good manners to give the user the option to check _whether_ a repair is needed, without actually making such repairs. Disk 1st Aid (OS9) has the same 2 options, and Norton Disk Doctor also always asks if you want to fix whatever problems it encounters. -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra h @ k n o w a r e . n l Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/