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- Seriously, ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo
/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo - Files might have perfectly valid permissions but differ from what’s expected by the Repair Permissions process. According to Apple’s own description of the feature: ...
- Software Update Tips and Voodoo
/2004/12/software_update - If the permissions differ, Disk Utility reports the difference (and corrects ... Repair Permissions is not a periodic maintenance task or a preventive measure. ...
- ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended ...
/2006/04/repair_permissions - Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates ... We are told to repair permissions before and after each update by whom? ...
- Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections, Several ...
/2005/01/misc_updates - Repair Permissions is not a periodic maintenance task or a preventive measure. ... File permissions and ownership don’t have a half-life — they don’t ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Regarding TUAW’s ...
/linked/2008/02/25/floggy - Regarding TUAW’s Mischaracterization of My Repair Permissions’ Advice ... If you have a permissions-related problem (or suspect one) it might solve it. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: MacFixIt Retort on Repair ...
/linked/2006/04/13/macfixit - MacFixIt Retort on Repair Permissions. Cites several examples where running Repair Permissions can fix actual problems, but that’s just my point ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Macworld: ‘Repairing Permissions ...
/linked/2006/08/05/repair-perms - Macworld: Repairing Permissions: What You Need to Know’ Comprehensive overview of the “Repair Permissions” feature in Apple’s Disk Utility by ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: From the DF Archives: ‘Seriously ...
/linked/2007/03/20/repair-voodoo - Arguing that you (a) run Repair Permissions all the time and (b) have no permission problems, and then drawing the conclusion that there’s a cause ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Take Control of Permissions in ...
/linked/2005/10/14/permissions - Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X. 90-page $10 ebook by Brian Tanaka covering a topic that confuses the hell out of most Mac users. Friday, 14 October 2005 ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple’s ‘Mac Maintenance Quick ...
/linked/2006/05/07/quick-assists - Amidst other tips for morons such as keeping your desktop tidy, wiping dust off your computer, and giving ... document recommends running Repair Disk Permissions periodically. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple’s ‘Mac Maintenance Quick ...
/linked/2006/05/31/quick-assist - Apple’s Mac Maintenance Quick Assist’ No Longer Recommends Periodically Repairing Permissions ... Well, it’s been revised, and it no longer mentions Repair Permissions. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: Voodoo
/linked/2008/01/09/voodoo - If you’re having trouble, especially if you suspect it’s permissions related, you should by all means repair permissions and see if that fixes the problem. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: May 31, 2006
/linked/2006/05/31/ - Apple’s Mac Maintenance Quick Assist’ No Longer Recommends Periodically Repairing Permissions ... Well, it’s been revised, and it no longer mentions Repair Permissions. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: February 25, 2008
/linked/2008/02/25/ - Regarding TUAW’s Mischaracterization of My Repair Permissions’ Advice ... If you have a permissions-related problem (or suspect one) it might solve it. ...
- Smart Crash Reports Addenda
/2006/02/scr_addenda - Regarding the Permissions of the InputManagers Folder. The number one question from ... Instead, it now prompts the user with a dialog box asking for permission. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: August 5, 2006
/linked/2006/08/05/ - Macworld: Repairing Permissions: What You Need to Know’ Comprehensive overview of the “Repair Permissions” feature in Apple’s Disk Utility by ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: April 13, 2006
/linked/2006/04/13/ - MacFixIt Retort on Repair Permissions. Cites several examples where running Repair Permissions can fix actual problems, but that’s just my point ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘Floating’ Ownership
/linked/2005/04/25/floating - Dave Nanian of Shirt Pocket — the software company behind the ... OS X’s optional ability to ignore file permissions on FireWire drives: the permissions on files you create on ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: April 25, 2005
/linked/2005/04/25/ - Even better accuracy, Tiger compatibility, improved AppleScript support, and ... to ignore file permissions on FireWire drives: the permissions on files you create ...
- Daring Fireball Archives
/2006/04/?M=A - Seriously, Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo 12 Apr 2006. Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s ... Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: May 7, 2006
/linked/2006/05/07/ - Apple’s Mac Maintenance Quick Assist’ Recommends Repairing Disk Permissions ... Apple support document recommends running Repair Disk Permissions periodically. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: March 20, 2007
/linked/2007/03/20/ - Arguing that you (a) run Repair Permissions all the time and (b) have no permission problems, and then drawing the conclusion that there’s a cause ...
- MacSFTP
/2002/10/macsftp - I also wish the Set Permissions window showed the numeric value for the current ... because that’s how my feeble mind recognizes Unix-style permissions. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: February 2008
/linked/2008/february - Regarding TUAW’s Mischaracterization of My Repair Permissions’ Advice ... If you have a permissions-related problem (or suspect one) it might solve it. ...
- Daring Fireball Projects: bbdiff
/projects/bbdiff/ - Move it to a location in your PATH, such as /usr/local/bin/. Set the permissions on the bbdiff file such that the executable bits are turned on. For example: ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: October 14, 2005
/linked/2005/10/14/ - Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X. 90-page $10 ebook by Brian Tanaka covering a topic that confuses the hell out of most Mac users. ...
- Using the ‘telnet’ URI Protocol to Delete Files
/2004/05/telnet_protocol - [Update 24 May 2004: If you just want to know the steps I recommend to close the ... By default, it’s assigned to Terminal; I recommend using RCDefaultApp to set it ...
- Archive: 2006
/2006/ - Seriously, Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo 12 Apr 2006. Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s ... Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System ...
- Accommodating
/2003/04/accommodating - And which group brought in a 30-year-old Unix file permissions model that resulted in thousands of Mac OS X users being disallowed from emptying their Trash? ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: April 2005
/linked/2005/april - Safari and Setting Your Default Feed Reader. Apple did the Right Thing with regard to ... to ignore file permissions on FireWire drives: the permissions on files you create ...
- More on the Snow Leopard/Old Version of ...
/2009/09/more_snow_leopard_flash - John Gruber’s latest piece of Apple apologetics concerns the fact that Apple shipped a ... File information includes: the file’s UNIX permissions, its owner and group, its size, ...
- An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch
/2006/09/open_challenge - This file will be created with the default ownership and file permissions — read and write access for the current user, read-only access for the group and world. ...
- If It Ain’t Broke
/2004/04/if_it_aint_broke - Around a month after Mac OS X 10.3 shipped, I charted its adoption rate among ... File permission and ownership problems, for example, are not something a typical ...
- Adios Avie
/2006/03/adios_avie - This week’s announcement that today will be Avie Tevanian’s last day at Apple ... Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates ...
- Finder Reflux
/2002/12/finder_reflux - I do think the 9 Finder is terrific, but it’s certainly not perfect. ... be erased due to permissions problems, an understanding of the Macintosh Way is ...
- About the Help Viewer Security Update, and ...
/2004/05/help_viewer_security_update - [Update 24 May: If you just want to know the steps I recommend to close the various URI ... They’ve since fixed the permissions, and their example now works. ...
- O’Grady v. Superior Court
/2006/04/ogrady - In a weblog entry a week ago, PowerPage publisher Jason O’Grady wrote ... Seriously, Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo. Next: New T-Shirts. Shop at Amazon.com and ...
- Microtech’s Crashtacular Zio Driver
/2003/08/microtechs_crashtacular_zio_driver - But for those who aren’t sufficiently savvy regarding root permissions — which describes the vast majority of Mac users — something like Microtech’s ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: March 2007
/linked/2007/march - Arguing that you (a) run Repair Permissions all the time and (b) have no permission problems, and then drawing the conclusion that there’s a cause ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: April 2006
/linked/2006/april - MacFixIt Retort on Repair Permissions. Cites several examples where running Repair Permissions can fix actual problems, but that’s just my point ...
- Archive
/archive/ - Seriously, Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo 12 Apr 2006. Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s ... Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System ...
- Windows: The New Classic
/2006/04/windows_the_new_classic - As of just two days ago, though, it certainly didn’t seem like an obvious move for Apple to officially or ... Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System ...
- Smart Crash Reports
/2006/01/smart_crash_reports - It does not ask permission beforehand, nor does it report what it has done afterward. ... Both ask permission before doing do, and both tell you where they go. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: August 2006
/linked/2006/august - I love YouTube, but the simple truth is that their stock in trade is redistributing without permission video clips whose copyrights are held by others. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: October 2005
/linked/2005/october - Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X. 90-page $10 ebook by Brian Tanaka covering a topic that confuses the hell out of most Mac users. ...
- Daring Fireball Linked List: January 2008
/linked/2008/january - If you’re having trouble, especially if you suspect it’s permissions related, you should by all means repair permissions and see if that fixes the problem. ...
- Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding ...
/2006/04/asinine_and_or_risky_ideas - When I wrote about Boot Camp Thursday, I started by observing that while I and many ... Seriously, Repair Permissions’ Is Voodoo. Shop at Amazon.com and support Daring Fireball ...