my HD is NOT a CD!

[dirtymatt]

But eliminating the symptoms is a good thing. It's usually far too difficult to then find out what the user had done recently to get the permissions all screwed up in a forum environment.

But the problem will just come back later (assuming it really is screwed up permissions that did it, often I wonder if repairing permissions had any effect on the problem at all). It just seems like "repair permissions" is the "reboot" of the mac world. "Finder is acting weird...repair permissions" "Outlook won't open...reboot". In neither case is the cause of the problem being addressed, and the problem will come back.

 

[Bozola]

Just wondering... How do access the finder window quickly?

I am in the habit of double clicking the HD to get to a finder window...

Bozola

I've had this issue ever since I got Mac OS X (with 10.1), and thought little of it until this thread. It doesn't bother me much, since I choose to have no drives display on the desktop.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Just wondering... How do access the finder window quickly?

I am in the habit of double clicking the HD to get to a finder window...

Bozola

Click the dock icon when no Finder windows are open.
Hit Apple+N when Finder is active

That's what I do.

 

[Bozola]

Thanks... my "clean desktop" life could be just beginning!!

 

[rainman::|:|]

I'm kinda curious why everyone always jumps on the "repair permissions" solution. If the permissions on your drive get screwed up, all that repairing permissions will do is treat a symptom, it doesn't fix the underlying problem of what caused the permissions to break in the first place.

Quite often the cause of the permission corruption is a one-time thing, like a crash or a disk error, or something screwed up during an install (this is usually it). The permission might be wrong for weeks or months, and you never notice (if you don't repair often) until something goes wrong. If you have to repair permissions like, 5 times a day just to run smoothly, then you've got a bigger problem, but if you need to repair once every 4 months, the symptom is the problem.

 

[ump3]

I'm kinda curious why everyone always jumps on the "repair permissions" solution.

Its like the old 'rebuild the desktop' in OS9. Solves everything from incorrect icons showing to hair loss.