[HM] Running Permissions?

[Bob K]

Sorry for the abbreviation.

Permissions control who and/or what application(s) may change a file or 
folder.

"Repair Disk Permissions" is run (Jaguar and Panther) from the "Disk 
Utility"
which is a utility application, located normally in Applications > 
Utilities.
It fixes corrupted permissions in System related folders.  There is 
also a
copy of Disk Utility on every Apple System Installation CD.

It is recommended that the repair routine is best run from the Disk 
Utility on
the Apple Installation CD BEFORE, and from the Disk Utility on your HD 
AFTER, any
System related installation or update.

Not doing it before, could freeze the installation, not doing it after 
could
cause corruption in your System files.

That's my understanding of expert recommendations.

Bob K.


On Feb 20, 2004, at 9:10, Michael Minardi wrote:

> "the cardinal rule: to run Permissions before and after all system 
> installations"
>
> I will soon be upgrading to Panther so could someone give more details 
> about this? How exactly do you run permissions?
>
> thanks
>
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