As suggested, before installing the new system, I did a permissions repair installed and then did another permissions repair. I don’t know if anyone has noticed yet, but the permissions repair windows now fills up with “We are now using special permissions...” information lines which, of course, are totally ignored. Does anyone know how to get rid of these lines? It has now become a real chore to sort through all this chaff to see if any files or folders have actually had permissions repaired. And perhaps someone can tell me why Apple in its great corporate wisdom has seen fit to include all this useless information in the scanning procedure. jg