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Making disk repairs?
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Are you sure it needs repair?
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore
Ok then,, wow,, I guess I need to ignore all these messages.. duhh,, they need to do something about this though..
That's a pretty LAME something, because here's how it "works":
- First, the user must get misled by bogus messages in DURP. No telling how long they try various ways to solve that mystery. [i.e., no one immediately concludes the bug is on Apple's end... so they continue their attempts at finding & fixing.]
- Second, they eventually stumble in to some forum (dazed and confused) and ask for help. At this point, they are told it can just be ignored... but that's not quite 100% for certain as yet. Because...
- Ultimately —to be sure —they need to take their report from DURP (with its umpteen entries) and compare those items in that list to the ones mentioned in that KB-doc (with its over 100 entries), to *verify* that ALL their items do indeed appear on that "official" list. [and what if they don't? what then?]
Tiger 10.4.6 finally fixed a similar (but far more benign) mess created by 10.4.0. This current mess has been lingering since 10.5.0 (november 2007), and continues on into 10.6.x today. I sure hope they fix this bug *before* 10.7 comes out. It has caused literally thousands of needless threads and damaged hair follicles.
I completely agree that it's completely lame, but it's something. Not much at all, but something.