Clearing Caches, affecting start-up times?
I ran some cache clearing using Main Menu a month ago and it seems to have impacted my start-up time (now takes about 90 seconds). I also notice when I repair disk permissions I always get the following text:
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Determining correct file permissions.
Group differs on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool, should be 80, group is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool
Permissions corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool
Group differs on ./Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy, should be 80, group is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy
Permissions corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/kcproxy
Group differs on ./Applications/Utilities/ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool, should be 80, group is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool
Permissions corrected on ./Applications/Utilities/ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool
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I upgraded to 10.4.9 today (combo) and it didn't affect this issue.
I also notice something similar (repeating text outline activities) when running the maintenance scripts.
Anyone have any thoughts on what this and how to fix system so I don't get repeating messages when doing routine maintenance?
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Hi
I get that as well, but the cause, for me, is Intego VirusBarrier. I contacted Intego & this was their reply:
"The Virus Barrier X4 definitions address a vulnerability found in these permissions and reset the permissions to what they should be when you restart the computer. Apple has yet to address this issue with a security update. So basically the Disk Utility is resetting the permissions to the incorrect (vulnerable) state.
At this time, and until Apple addresses this security issue, you should not run repair permissions on restart. And if you do run repair permissions for any reason, you should then restart so these particular permissions can be reset to the correct state."
You don't have this installed, do you?
Steve
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