HT1452 Should I repair disk permissions?

"Permissions differ" came up about 50 times after verifying disk permissions. Should I repair disk permissions?

As long as the report ends up with 'Permissions repair complete' then, as far as permissions go, you are fine. You can ignore the various statements in the report:
Permissions you can ignore on 10.5 onwards:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
Using 'should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r--' as an example, you will see the that the permissions are not changed, but the | indicates a different location. This is because an update to Leopard onwards changed the location of a number of system components.
Poster rccharles has provided this description of what it all means:
drwxrwxrwx
d = directory
r = read
w = write
x = executeable program
drwxrwxrwx
|  |  |
|  |   all other users not in first two types
|  | 
|  group
| 
owner
a little more info
Before the user had read & write. A member of the group had read.
After, only the user had read & write.
If you are running Panther or Tiger:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21090

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    > I repair permissions using the Tiger disc upgrade.
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
    You should still run it periodically.  When you run it, what needs to be repaired has been repaired; consider the rest of it an FYI.  I've never experience a problem, where a Repair Disk Permissions message actually caused a problem.  But, if you ever get an error while running Repair Disk (or Verify Disk), that is usually a serious problem.

  • When I repair disk permissions using Disk Utility and it says it's completed the task, I click on it again and it repairs more. This has been going on for hours now. Could there be that many wrong permissions? Should it get to "all repaired" eventually?

    When I repair disk permissions using Disk Utility and it says it's completed the task, I click on it again and it repairs more. This has been going on for hours now. Could there be that many wrong permissions? Should it get to "all repaired" eventually?

    It's normal behavior. You don't have to worry about. Most of what's listed is just a report of what the utility finds., not necessarily that there is omething wrong.
    If you want to find out more, read the link below, or see the More Like This links on this page.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US

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    Try to put your headphones several times in and out from your connection, might be the switch is stuck. Normally it should work again while trying to plug the headphones in and out!

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21090
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/dt.jar".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jce.jar".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/dt.jar".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/jce.jar".
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    Permissions repair complete

    Pleasant dreams.
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  • Keep having to 'Repair Disk permissions'.

    My MBP (2.53 GHZ Intel Core i5, running 10.6.8) keeps running slow, and only improves after Repairing Disk Permissions. I had to run this again this morning - and I'd only ran Permissions repair two days ago! This is what I got;
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jce.jar".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar ", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/jconsole.jar ".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/management-a gent.jar", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/management-a gent.jar".
    User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib", should be 95, user is 0.
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/dt.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r-- .
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/dt.jar".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/jce.jar".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/management- agent.jar", should be lrwxr-xr-x , they are -rw-r--r-- .
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/management- agent.jar".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/security/bl acklist", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/lib/security/bl acklist".
    User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Libraries", should be 95, user is 0.
    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Libraries".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/deploy.jar".
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    Repaired "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Resources/JavaPlugin Cocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources/Java/libdeploy.jnilib".
    Permissions differ on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Deploy.bundle/ Contents/Home/lib/security/cacerts", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
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    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds/Alerts".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Audio".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/ColorPickers".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Compositions".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Favorites".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/FontCollections".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Fonts".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/iMovie/Plug-ins".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/iMovie".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Input Methods".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Internet Plug-Ins".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Keyboard Layouts".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Preferences".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Printers".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Screen Savers".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Sounds".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library/Voices".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Library".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Movies".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Music".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Pictures".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/ru.lproj/Public".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Sites".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Desktop".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Documents".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Downloads".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Library/Application Support".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Library/Assistants".
    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/zh_CN.lproj/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers".
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