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Disk Utility....Runs and Runs and Runnnnnnnns

zagato27

zagato27

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Firts, my setup. G5. Just installed Leopard (retail version) on a brand new Seagate Barracuda 320gb (oem disc failed). BTW, this new Seagate is my only hard drive and I'm only using about 31gbof the 298 showing available(so much for a 320gb drive eh?). I've tried running Disk Utility to "verify permissions" and get the message "less than a minute remaining" with the blue bar sitting at 20% or so. I've let it run for about 10 minutes and nothing. Should I let it run longer? Anyone else have this happen to them? Ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
Known issue eh? Guess that means that Apple is "working on it" and look for a cure in an update?
 
Arrrrrrgh. How could Apple have missed this one? Oh well, least I know that it's just now "me". Lazy day here in Savannah, or should I say morning. Late in the afternoon in London I'd guess. Kind of day to curl up with a book. Yup, think I'll try that after some domestic chores. Cheers
 
zagato27 said:
Arrrrrrgh. How could Apple have missed this one? Oh well, least I know that it's just now "me". Lazy day here in Savannah, or should I say morning. Late in the afternoon in London I'd guess. Kind of day to curl up with a book. Yup, think I'll try that after some domestic chores. Cheers
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They haven't missed it, they have a guide telling people not to worry.
 
Thanks. I see where disk utility seems to have "issues". However, I couldn't even get to the end where a message appears. I may start it up tonite and just let it go and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
 
slow disk permissions

Hi

Yes I had the same problem - checked the forums, realised that it was going to take some time - 1.5 hours in fact... tut.
 
Matari said:
Hi

Yes I had the same problem - checked the forums, realised that it was going to take some time - 1.5 hours in fact... tut.
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Yup, just the other night I set it up to run b4 I went to bed. In am it was done. Yes, I did get all those messages (those contained in the thread from Apple saying that they weren't a problem) saying that this was wrong and it wouldn't correct it but at least it ran all the way through. Cheers
 
I've found it works if I boot from the leopard disk and run it from there. Logged in normally, sometimes it works (and takes ~7min), but other times not so much. If you ever want to do it again, try from the boot disk.
 
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