[X4U] Repair permissions

[Gene Steinberg]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 3:19 AM, Greg Noneman wrote:

> The one minute estimate is not accurate. On my PowereBook G4 (1.67  
> GHz) it seems like it takes more like 15 minutes.  Give it time. It  
> will probably complete (eventually).
>
> Greg Noneman


This has become the norm, since Leopard checks ACLs as part of this  
process and it can be dreadfully slow. Basically, as a programmer  
friend of mine reminded me the other day, unless you have a real  
problem related to permissions (and few ever do), this process is  
nothing more than a "pixie dust" remedy that's no better than  
rebuilding the desktop for every little thing under the Classic Mac OS.




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