on 06/02/18 12:23, FWPHOTO at fwphoto at adelphia.net wrote: > I was wondering what others do when Verifying/Repairing Permissions. When I > open Disk Utility it shows the actual hard drive at the top of the lists & > then *my* drive (the one that I named & shows up on the desktop) a level > below. Do I select the top drive to V/R Perms, *my* drive, or first do one > & next the other (for 2 passes)? I believe it shows the other one first because it cannot very well repair the drive that you have booted on. Better to boot off another drive or your Mac OS DVD.