500 Pages Of Repaired Permissions???

I just repaired permissions and it kept going and going. I thought I better keep this so copied into Word. Turned out to be over 500 pages.
I Verified Disk and it did not bring up any problems. I repaired permissions again and nothing.
Should I be worried or is that normal for some reason to bring up sooooo many bad permissions???
Should I run any other checks?
thanks,
frank

As a matter of fact I did... I moved a ton of vid files off the MBP to an external then did a bunch of transfers using two different externals then added about 40 vid files to the MBP.
And I did see a ton of Quick Time go by in the repaired permissions. Would that all explain it?
thanks,
frank

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