<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I had noticed that Repair Permissions (whether I used Disk Utility or any other, 3rd party, software was always either very slow or seemed to have stalled.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I have found that using this command in Terminal is an effective way or repairing permissions, with a % progress report:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo diskutil repairPermissions /</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(password required)<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Just in case it is of help to anyone else with a laptop and Leopard.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">regards, Trevor</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></body></html>