[Ti] verifying permission freezes

[T Molnar]

Sounds good Kynan,
thanks...
I have back up's but only of my most important items.
I would clone the drive but if there are errors I would just be cloning 
the errors as well.
Guess I will go muddle around somemore.
thanks
t
On Jan 28, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> Make sure you have up-to-date backups, and you have nothing to worry 
> about.  ;-)
>
> You might want to just open Disk Utility, click on the drive (not the 
> volume) and make sure that SMART Status says "Verified" at the bottom. 
>  And also, make sure your drive doesn't make any loud, repetitive 
> clicking noises.  I'm going to assume that you know what your hard 
> drive normally sounds like; soft clicking, typically very fast.  If it 
> starts clicking at a rate of about twice per second, very regularly, 
> very loudly, especially if these hangs occur at the same time, then 
> you'd want to think about replacing the drive.  That is a very common 
> mode of failure.
>
> Otherwise, I'd assume it's software.  One specific thing I've heard of 
> recently is that if you have the latest version of iTunes 6.0.2 and 
> are running 10.3.9, Disk Utility can hang.  One "solution" is to 
> delete every .pkg file with iTunes in the name from /Library/Receipts 
> except for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg.  Another is to strip 
> iTunes of it's Intel-specific code.
>
> Hope that helps,
>


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