How long to repair permissions

Got the grey screen...trying to fix with repair permissions...any idea how long it might take to run the repair....I have a 250G drive with about 120G of it used. I am asking just so I know if at some point I should give up....or just leave it for a while while it does its work.

There is no hard and fast time for repairing permissions - I have a PB running 10.5.2 and it takes almost 45 minutes, but on my intel aluminum iMac also running 10.5.2, it takes 3 minutes.
I generally get impatient when a process stalls as I track it in Activity Monitor and it doesn't do anything for several minutes. An Archive and Install can take as lttle as half-an-hour or the two hours it took you. I'm sorry there's no real answer tyo give you, but machines are variable and so are times.

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How can I repair permissions?

How can I repair permissions on my iMac?

Open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, click on the volume with Mac OS X installed, choose the First Aid tab, and press the Repair Disk Permissions button.
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How often to repair permissions?

How often should one need to repair permissions?
It seems that I need to do so too frequently in order to repair sluggish or erratic performance.
Adam

Permissions shouldn't have to be repaired unless there is a permissions problem. Are you getting permissions messages when you open files/apps?
Slow, erratic behavior doesn't sound like a permissions problem. I'm not sure why RP is helping this.
How much RAM do you have installed?
How often and after how long does this happen?
Please post your Console > system.log from around the time of the last slowdown/permissions repair. Maybe we can find something there. Depending on how often this happens, you may be able to test it bystarting up in Safe Mode (It will take more time to startup because it runs a directory check.)
If your system functions correctly that way, go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> Login Items and remove them. Boot normally and test. If not go to/Users/yourname/Library/Contextual Menu Items and move whatever is there to the desktop. Then do the same with /Library/Contextual Menu Items. Lastly, try moving/Users/yourname/Library/Fonts to your desktop.

How long to repair an Iphone 5 ?

Hello,
I live in France and for a battery issue, I called AppleCare to repair my Iphone 5. (The 24th December and UPS took my Iphone at the 26)
But, they did not tell me how long will last the repair (included the time to arrive and to return of the repair center).
So, someone can tell me how long because I will need my phone the next week.
Thank's for your answers.
NB: Sorry for the mistakes in syntax.

Try calling Apple again, but I wouldn't count on seeing your phone next week.
I sent a message to Apple, thinking i was going to chat with a Apple tech. I needed to purchase additional coverage to speak to them about their product that i bought from them.
...they sent me here! Not that this is a bad place though.
Good luck

How long does Repair Disk take?

When starting up my iMac - only bought 3 weeks ago, I open Safari and my screen gets a black screen over it and say "You need to restart your computer. Hold down..." after 3 times of doing this I rung apple and went through some steps with technical help. I'm now waiting for Disk Utility to repair my disk - it's been over an hour. How long should this take?

An hour seems too long to me. That screen effect and message sound like a kernel panic. Such freezes are generally attributed to hardware but not always.
If the machine is only three weeks old and you are getting kernel panics, I'd make a booking for the shop to check it out.

Re: How long to repair before I can cancel?

I reported a fault firstly on one of my landlines on the 4th August. I returned home from holiday then to find my Alarm was faulting and there was no signal on the phone whatsoever. I phoned to report the fault and they said it would take 4 days to repair - but nothing happened. So I cancelled the phone line which was meant then to remain for thirty days with a messgae to re-direct to my other line. Guess what - they cut it off immediately ! How helpful, I've had that number for over 15 years and now I have to seek out everyone to let them know. So thats that phone line gone. Now my second phone line started getting noisy after this - very noisy and with crossed lines and strange behaviour (kept say numbers we called were unavilable) So be the 24th August I report a fault on this line too. Now, as I work from home this line is critical to me. It also has the broad band on it. So I have had no communication back to me from BT - even though I have provided my mobile and e-mail address. I received a bill this week - it had £10.90 call which was apparently 'operator assisted'. I called to have this removed. I have called back to the fault department 3 times to ask for assistance and updating but only get 'we completely understand (but we are not trained engineers and we are not going to do anything about it - is what they say) . I am currently waiting for a manager or engineer to call me - which they promised to do - but I am sure they won't. I have been with BT for 30 years,worked there 17 years and been loyal to the company, but it is time to change as they very obviously do not care about their customers. A repair time of any longer than 2 or 3 days is just not acceptable. All of this for me started when the could not install BT infinity properly either and I waited for 6 vweeks until someone did some fiddling with the pairs in the local cable box. I will now need to change my supplier (with all the heartache of 20 years of e-mails in all the families names) and write letters to the chairmans off once again as it seems to be impossible to talk to anyone in BT who is capable, trained or able to do anything about a reported problem.

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How long to repair?

Hi,
My MBP Pro C2D was sent in on the 7th of this month for repair (most likely a screen swap). The status page still reads "Repair in progress." It has been two weeks. Is this normal? How much longer should I wait before calling them? Thanks.

I called them, and apparently the engineering department has been trying to get a hold of me at an old number of mine. The rep said they probably are going to ask my permisison to send out a new unit (they would like to keep mine). Hopefully they can get in touch with me now that they have my current number and we can get this resolved.

How do I repair permissions when I removed the read and write priveleges to everyone?

I won't beat around the bush.
I accidentally disabled read and write priveleges to everyone onto the entire startup drive. It didn't occur to me that would also include admin. I saw a red no-sign on the folder, and now starting up leaves me with the white screen and the gray apple indefinately.
I'm not sure how to use terminal, but I have been using the time machine - it won't help me any if I can't start up my computer, though.
Thanks for helping.

You are very welcome, and if you have not done a Mountain Lion install before, read/print for reference: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10763 It is easy and straight forward but having the steps in front of you always helps.

Repairing permissions before and after updating software

What is the reason to repair permissions before and after updating software? This may sound like a stupid question to many of you, but I am new to computers and I am trying to learn how and why of some of the things of my PowerBook. I installed some updates without repairing permissions. Did I install some software updates the wrong way? Thank you.

This is a topic which will draw as many emphatic for and against responses as overnight shut down or not, defrag or not, optimise or not, and so on.
I agree with Neil. I believe that OS X has progressed sufficiently that repair permissions has become redundant and so I do not do it on any regular basis.
Some folk may refer you to an Apple Support Article 303602. That Article in its 4 May 2006 version, titled "Top 10 Tips to Keep Your Mac in Top Form" suggested Repair Permissions should be done "after upgrading or installing new software". The Article was however revised on 15 May 2006 to be titled "Top Tips to Keep Your Mac in Top Form" and the item on Repair Permissions [along with two other recommended maintenance tips] was removed. It is my view that the conclusion to be drawn here is that Apple no longer considers Repair Permissions to be a required maintenance procedure.
Many users have adopted a "Repair Permissions" mantra for a cure-all over several years. I dropped it sometime in 10.3.
But, to each his own.
HTH
TiPB 867 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Why can't I delete repaired permissions?

I recently upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I repaired permissions before and after. For the most part, the upgrade was successful without any major problems. The issue I have is when I repair permissions I can't delete the "history" of fixed permissions ... they clear with the clear history button but as soon as I repair again they all come back and it takes about three times longer to repair permissions than it did on Tiger. Any thoughts ?

First, despite what you'll often read on this site, repairing permissions is a complete waste of time unless you have a permission error involving a system file, which you probably never will. It's not a routine maintenance task, and certainly not something you need to do before or after a system upgrade.
Second, if you do repair permissions, it will always spew false errors, which makes it almost impossible to tell whether there were any real ones.

Repairing permissions from disc -not

Just to put it out there I own 4 mac's currently and have been using them for 10 years and I'm pretty stumped right now. I updated to 10.4.5, decided to repair permissions from disc and I boot up (from a 10.4.x disc probably like 10.4.2 or 3) and I get a diagram of a mouse with an arrow pointing at it showing that it needs batteries! I've never seen this before and I don't use an external mouse so what the heck is this? I read that you're not supposed to use install discs to repair permissions after you upgrade beyond that version. Never heard that before but that's fine. I can't even boot up beyond this mouse diagram thing to repair the disc. Is it the PB or what? Beyond that if you aren't supposed to use a boot disc, how do you repair permissions? Using disc utility in "utilities" doesn't do everything. Maybe someone can straighten me out here.
I've upgraded to 10.4.4 on my dual 2.5 ghz and use the same tiger install disc and or update disc (I have both) and have no problem.
thanks in advance
powerbook 1.67 high rez 15" Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 gigs ram

thanks for the reply, my understanding is that repairing from disc doesn't get everything, that you need to boot from a dvd or external disc.
any idea why my PB wont boot from either disc? what if I wanted to reinstall, I cant even do that!!
thanks

Repairing Permissions & 10.5.2 Upgrade

Before I start the update to 10.5.2 I have the following questions about repairing permissions:
1) Why do you have to repair permissions before you do the update?
2) Exactly how do you repair permissions?
3) What am I looking for when I do this process?
4) Should I repair permissions after I do the 10.5.2 Upgrade?
I have a brand new MacPro (Early 2008) and I'm trying to avoid any mistakes.

1. To insure that everything is OK before hand.
2. In the Utilities folder is an application called Disk Utility.
Open it up, click on your HD on the left sidebar, and then click on "Repair Disk Persmissions.
3. Nothing really. Let it do its thing.
4. Yes. Anytime you install something you should run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
Joseph Kriz

How long should permissions repair take?

I have a MBP 3,1 23.4GHz/4GB/320GB 7200RPM HD running OS X 10.5.7. I remember permissions repair, a long time ago, being a relatively quick process. It has waxed and waned over time, and at times there were many messages up (SUID...) that I was told to ignore.
Today, all messages are gone. I ran a permissions repair, then ran a second one and timed it. It took 5 minutes 9 seconds. Of that time, I got the barber pole for about 4 minutes and the crawling line for 1.
That seems awfully long. Any comments?
Thanks!

Hi Donna,
I've never heard of it taking this long, so something doesn't sound right.
How long has it been since you've run it?
I would quit the process and run Verify to see if the HD directory is ok. If it won't let you quit, try a force quit (command-option-esc), and if that doesn't work, you may have to do a forced shutdown (hold power button down for about 10 seconds/until MBP shuts down).
The "whirring" sound may be your fans revving up now and then.

How to DELETE WIN XP Partition? ? Possible? Repair Permissions bug...

Apple store has a program that at the end of the day it restores the computer back to how it was fresh from the start, simply by rebooting. What program is that. That would be dope to have.
Anyway, how do you delete a WIN XP partition? I haven't installed windows yet, but just want to be sure that I can if I want to. Thanks.
PS> Has there been a fix to repair permissions taking so long bug?

The repair disk permissions in Leopard is not hanging or frozen, it just takes longer to finish repair disk permissions than in Tiger. Here's more info on this one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6593656&#6593656
As for the merging and partitioning HD, I'm not certain if Boot Camp can create 3 partitions. So far I've only created 2. You can use the Disk Utility to create and merge multiple partitions but that will also erase the contents of the drive as well.

Repair Permissions: list remains very long

How serious could the following be:
After repeated reruns of Repair Permissions, a very long list remains on my Main Disk of only three classes of defects, to wit
AA—nine times of the type:
Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSources.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
BB—several hundreds of times of the type:
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Library/Sounds",
(as well as two of the type: ACL found but not expected on "Applications/Utilities").
CC—two times of the type:
Permissions differ on "sbin/restore", should be -r-xr-xr-x , they are -r-sr-sr-x .
Warning: SUID file "sbin/restore" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Observation:
all, with the exception of CC, are located in "System/Library/…",
and
"Disk Repair" is OK.

You're very welcome, Steven.
Just so you know, I used to run repair perms all the time.
I thought it was a maintenance procedure.
It's not, really. The only time to run it is if something's wrong (which is why you ran it)
or after installing major apps (but many folks that I respect here, say it isn't necessary even then.)
Five years ago, it was the "be all and end all" to maintaining a "healthy" Mac. Not so anymore.
So, do read a few of the threads from the link.
You'll find TONS of people wringing their hands over the RP notations.
"I ran it over and over, and the 'errors' are still there!"
I read a few of your most recent posts, and I realized that you've been trying to get things squared away. I hope you're all fixed now, but if not, don't ever hesitate to come back any time.

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