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. I have found that using this command in Terminal is an effective way or repairing permissions, with a % progress report: sudo diskutil repairPermissions / (password required) Just in case it is of help to anyone else with a laptop and Leopard. regards, Trevor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/titanium/attachments/20080225/b5bac7e1/attachment.html