Repair Disk Permissions Question

[Irish Paul]

Hi - Quick Newbie question...When I'm running the Repair Disk Permissions utility on my boot drive- do I choose the Macintosh HD icon or the one with the numbers after it? (See screengrab) Or does it matter?

Ta

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

That's the make and model number of your root hard drive.

I can tell your firewire drive is a Western Digital WD20xxx for example.

 

[telecomm]

I suspect the option to select the drive (rather than a specific volume like Macintosh HD) is there for people who have more than one volume on a specific drive, so that they can repair permissions across a number of volumes at once.

Having only one volume on my main drive, it does the same thing no matter which you select.

 

[mad jew]

In other words, it shouldn't matter.

 

[Irish Paul]

Thanks guys - the reason i ask is because i remember a Final Cut tutorial by larry jordan where he specifically suggests one or the other - and for the life of me i cant remember which one... If anyone has seen it can they suggest?

 

[barr08]

Macintosh HD

 

[Irish Paul]

Thanks again guys. I found a neat litle utility that does a good automatic maintenance job some might find useful

http://www.atomicbird.com/macaroni/

Cheers