[P1] OS X Help Please

[Jack Rodgers]

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 07:01  AM, david wrote:

> I'm not the most expert *nix guy but I can say this with certainty - 
> messing with permissions is not a good idea. Often times when clients 
> (or friends and colleagues) have called in a panic about their machine 
> acting up, I've found that messed up permissions are the cause. I'd 
> suggest that once you get your drive problems under control that you 
> fix permissions using Apple's Disk Utility. Then spend some time 
> looking around your system and look how the permissions are set for 
> different files.

Permissions are easily corrupted, it would seem. Prior to X, if you had 
a crash and problems occurred, you would trash certain preferences 
because the preferences were open files that became corrupted with the 
freeze. Now, it seems to me, permissions suffer the same fate. So, 
running Permission Fixer if a problem begins is a good idea. Seems to 
work for me.

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