Select the First Aid tab. In the left pane, select the hard drive or volume you want to run Repair Disk on. Place a check mark in the Show details box. Click the Repair Disk button. Whenever something isn't quite right with a Mac, someone suggests running Repair Permissions.
Fortunately, Repair Permissions is benign. You should use Repair Permissions if you experience a problem with an application, such as an application not launching , starting up slowly, or having one of its plug-ins refuse to work.
Permission problems can also cause your Mac to take longer than usual to start up or shut down. Disk Utility's Repair Permissions only repairs files and applications that are installed using Apple's installer package. Repair Permissions verifies and repairs, if needed, all Apple applications and most third-party applications, but it won't check or repair files or applications you copy from another source or the files and folders in your home directories.
In addition, Repair Permissions only verifies and repairs files located on bootable volumes that contain OS X. To repair permissions using Disk Utility.
In the left pane, select a volume you want to run Repair Permissions on. The chosen volume must contain a bootable copy of OS X. Click the Repair Disk Permissions button. Disk Repair lists any files that don't match the expected permission structure. It also attempts to change the permissions for those files back to the expected state.
Not all permissions can be changed, so you should expect some files to always show up as having different permissions than expected. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: mikeswitzer mikeswitzer. I semi-regularly use Onyx to repair disk permissions.
It normally takes around 30 minutes to complete. Yesterday my system started hanging so I ran repair disk from the boot cd.
This was fine and took around fifteen minutes. Then I ran repair disk permissions from the boot CD. After around 30 minutes it said '1 minute remaining'. That was 19 hours ago It's still chugging along so it sounds like somethings happening - but the progress bar and remaining time have not changed. So my question is - should I let it finish?
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