Ignoring Disk Permissions (Back Up Internal)

I just did a re-install of my entire system, however I can't really do anything with my files because they are all using old permissions. Isn't there a way to change all the permissions real easy, or ignore the entire disk's permissions?

You can't just ignore the entire disk's permissions.
And changing your permissions wholesale is not a good idea.
The question is, what method did you backup before you reinstalled your system?
What Mac model did you reinstall on?
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
shows that had you backed up via a clone, and have a Firewire bootable Mac, you could have simply used the migration assistant after erase and install to reimport your data without having to worry about permissions. If that's not what you did, you may want to look over this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712

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Lost disk permissions of usb-hd

trying to lock my extern usb-harddisk
and save it against changements,
i made the mistake to lock it in the information window
i have 10.4 german version,
and try to find expressions of the english 10.4 to explain:
in the last part of the info window,
first pull down menu:
----you may: read&wright ,
----no rights ---> last expression i choosed.
since that i have no icon on the screen.
disk utility finds my hd
and -----verifiying appears to be ok
-----1hfs volume checked
------- volume passed verification
buttons --- verify disk permission
---repair disk permission,
---mount button (on the top)
are not usable (unactivated)
is it necessary to erase the volume,
to make it mountable?
how to get disk permissions back?
greetings
andreasmichael

thanks a lot!
i tried to follow the FAQ you requested,
with the following result:
Last login: Wed May 24 09:13:02 on ttyp2
Welcome to Darwin!
andreas-breiners-power-mac-g5:~ andreasbreiner$ :chmod 775 "/Volumes/hd232gb/"
-bash: :chmod: command not found
necessary to enter in a different manner?
(FAQ you requested:)
Q. I accidentally changed the permissions on a disk so that one or more of the permissions were set to No Access, and I can't see the disk to change the permissions back. How do I fix this?
A1. If the disk in question is your Mac OS X startup disk and your computer stops starting up at the blue screen, restart with the Command and S keys held down, and enter the following commands:
mount -uw /
chown root /
chmod 1775 /
exit
A2. If the disk in question has Mac OS X installed but isn't the current startup disk, open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and enter the following:
sudo chown root "/Volumes/volumename/"
sudo chmod 1775 "/Volumes/volumename/"
sudo -k
You will be asked for your password when executing the first command; it will not appear in the Terminal window. Replace volumename with the disk's actual name. If you don't know what the disk's name is, choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, and enter /Volumes/ as the folder's path. Locate the item corresponding to that disk and drag it into the Terminal window; in this case, omit the quote marks and all text between them in the existing commands. Log out and back in.
A3. If the disk in question does not have Mac OS X installed, open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and enter the following:
chmod 775 "/Volumes/volumename/"
Replace volumename with the disk's actual name. If you don't know what the disk's name is, choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, and enter /Volumes/ as the folder's path. Locate the item corresponding to that disk and drag it into the Terminal window; in this case, omit the quote marks and all text between them in the existing commands. If you get a message that you don't have permission to do this, proceed as indicated in situation 2 above, but use 775 as the number. Log out and back in.

Warning after running disk permissions

After running disk permissions on my internal hard drive I get the following message:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Does any one know what this means?

This is one of the most common bugs being reported about Leopard, and has to do with the installation of the Remote Desktop Client software update through Software Update. There is no official fix for this, and repairing permissions in general seems to be quite problematic with Leopard.
If your system seems otherwise stable and free from major problems, it may be worth waiting for Apple to take care of this via another software update or some other remedy.

After getting the dreaded gray/blue screen, I tried to run disk repair on the internal disk. I got an error message saying "Disk Utility can't repair this disk and restore your backed-up files. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely

After getting the dreaded gray/blue screen, I tried to run disk repair on the internal disk. I got an error message saying "Disk Utility can't repair this disk and restore your backed-up files. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely." What do I do now? This is an iMac and I'm running 10.6.8.

Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it. See below for how to clone a drive.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.
You may be able to backup your data if you have an erased external drive you can use. Before you do the above but after you have opened Disk Utility you can try to clone your drive:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
Now this will only work if the drive is accessible and can be cloned by Disk Utility. Otherwise, you would need to access your drive from another Mac that you can connect via Firewire - Target Disk Mode.

DISK PERMISSIONS "INTERNAL ERROR"

Disk utility does not complete repair of Permissions due to "internal error"?
Not even with SOFTWARE RESTORE #1 disk.

Hey, I hope I did it right. I am new at this. THE BOARDS is great! I originally posted the problem at the beginning of the catagories area using the search insert, and inadvertantly posted it within several different topic areas.
THE BOARDS had changed a little since the early 2005's as well.
PECOS BILL from another area should take credit, as to that's where I found the answer. Got so many e-mails the first day, had to shut down subscriptions for the topic!
Good Luck.
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I ran repair disk permissions an all my photos in aperture are gone. How can I get them back?

I ran repair disk permissions an all my photos in aperture are gone. How can I get them back?

If you've turned on "Find my iPhone" on the device you can track its location at iCloud. The device must be powered on and have internet access to be located.
Doubtful you ever backed up your "camera roll" to iCloud but you may have backed it up to your computer via iTunes. You can "restore" that backup to your new iOS device but you can't view the contents of that backup and pick out pieces of it.

Repair Disk Permissions Issues

I'm not sure I am posting this in the correct community but here goes . . .
I have a 17" Macbook Pro running the latest version of Snow Leopard. It is almost 2 years old and I have 4 gb RAM.
Recently, it seems to be slowing down and I have to run repair disk permissions 2-3 times a week to recoup a little speed. I also delete my Firefox cache regularly to try to gain a little there. I do make a few videos in iMovie and initially I thought that was the problem but this week I have not really worked in iMovie much and it is still slow. There seems to be some issues in the log of the repair permissions. I hope they show in this image. I don't know what these mean or how to fix them. It is the "permissions differ" entries I am confused about.

You can ignore those permissions per support article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21090
Since you brought up iMove, I suspect your storage is nearly full as this most certainly causes the computer to slow down. video files are the biggest culprit.
Look in your Activity Monitor and reduce the drive space by copying to a external, Disk Utility HFS+ formatted external powered drive of unnecessary files so your boot drive is ideally below 50% filled (yea I know but the computer slows down after that) and not more than 75% filled.
Once you have done that. Get another newer external powered HFS drive and download the free Carbon Copy Cloner and clone the internal drive to the external.
Hold option and boot off the external clone, test it out then use Disk Utility to erase the internal and then reverse clone the external onto the internal, this will defragment and optimize your drive so the OS and programs are on the fast part of the drive, not the slow parts.
Reboot into the internal and run off of the free OnyX's maintainence and cleaning aspects and reboot.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Sir speedy machine here we come!
Now of course you may have other issues that could be causing your slow down, like not enough RAM or some sort of failed process or leftover program, tweaks or simply a slow Internet.
You can opt to simply reinstall OS X 10.6 ( by holding c and booting off the installer disk ) over your installed version (doesn't touch files or programs) then immediatly Software Updating until clear, that will clean anything hanging out in OS X.
If you still have slowdowns, then it's in what geeks call "User land" basically something installed outside of root, like a program or only runs in user, not in OS X.
For that you need to create a new user, transfer your files via the Shared Drop and wean yourself off the old user and finally delete it. Also install all new versions of your third party programs removing the originals first.
That should do it.

Need advice on Repairing Disk Permissions...

I need some input from those who know how to Repair Disk Permissions (under Disk Utility, for those who don't know).
Basically, I lost a TON of my Access and Privileges on my G4 recently--which I really only noticed after iTunes would no longer let me import anything (no matter how many times I tried changing the Ownership & Permissions on my Music folder's Info section)--which, I might add, I suffered due to a virus caused by Limewire. As had been suggested to me, I Verified Disk Permissions, and saw that I had a TON of problems listed on my startup HD. So I'm now seeking ways to repair them.
Now, the most obvious way is using the Repair Disk Permissions program (which I've actually never had to use before). However, under OS10.3.9, when I select the Repair Disk Permissions on Disk Utility, in listing all my Drives available, it actually shows the drive in 2 formats/pictures:
1) the actual technical name/manufactor model/GB size of the drive (on top), and
2) the Desktop name and Icon picture of the Drive as it appears on my desktop.
This confuses me: as you can guess, the startup Drive in question is only partioned as one. So on Disk Utility, which of these 2 pictured drives do I have to highlight and Repair Disk Permissions to (i.e. 19GB Maxtor32049 Vs. 'HAL')?
Also, for those of you who have used other means (programs) to change Disk Permissions, which would you recommend? For example, I got a program from Versiontracker called BatCHmod, but I don't know if something like it is any safer than just using Repair Disk Permissions. Because unfortunately, I'm running out of room on my disk, and don't have nearly enough space on my other drive to hope to back the whole Drive up to.
Please help!!!

Hi phasmatrope!
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk HAL, in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun RP until the only message it reports is:
"We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util.
New permissions are 33261"
This is a status message and not a cause for concern. You may safely ignore it.
Or these:
"We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/jobs. New uid is 1"
"We are using a special uid for the file or directory ./private/var/at/spool. New uid is 1"
Again, these are status messages, which appeared after Security Update 2005-001.
There may be others that you can ignore. Complete lists at link below.
Spurious Permissions Errors In 10.3.x
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
Good Luck!
ali b

Unrepairable disk permissions

When I got my iMac for Christmas this past holiday it seemed dead on arrival. After initial booting it abruptly shut down. Without any options on Christmas day I just tried restarting it multiple times. With out any plausible reason it started to work and has worked fine since. I have noticed though that the HDD is making more noise than it should and at times when nothing is really going on.
On a guess I tried to fix the disk permissions. After verifying and repairing multiple times the same errors keep coming back. So my question is, is there anything I can do with software to fix this or would erasing the drive and reinstalling OS X fix the problem. If not could it be a physical error on the hard disk?
Thanks to anyone who can help.

Why you never took your machine in for warranty repair is a mystery. If the machine was DOA as you suggested the first thing you should have done is return. I do agree with the last poster about backing up your system, always keep backups using Time Machine or a Bootable Clone (use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner) on a regular basis.
As for the messages in Repairing Disk Permissions, there is a good chance the are message you can safely ignore. Please refer to Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore.
If you want to check the hardware health of you can run Apple Hardware Test in Extended Mode. If the system reports errors please post them. If it doesn't there is a good chance your machine is operating fine. As for the noise here are some Failing hard drive sounds, if your HD sounds like any of these make an appointment with your local Apple Store or AASP immediately for repair and as we have stressed BACK UP NOW!!!!!!
Roger

Can't repair disk permissions or run Mac Software update application

I tried repairing the disk permissions and received the following error message:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Got the same error message when verifying the disk permissions. The verify disk option also failed.
Whenever I run this application to check for updates, it just bounces in the dock and disappears. Then I get this error box that says "The application Software Update quit unexpectedly". It then gives me 3 options to "ignore, report, and relaunch".
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks for the fast reply. I was able to run the disk utility using the disk. But I got the same errors when I booted back up and tried to run the "repair disk permissions". Plus the "Software Update" program still crashed.

10.5.6: Problems with disk permissions after Time Machine restore

HELP!
This is the second time this is happening to me-- I restored my 10.5.6 system fully from a Time Machine backup, and now the disk permissions, as far as I can tell, are completely screwed up.
I have not turned off my system since the restore, for fear that it won't start up again (as was the case the last time I did this). When I try to repair disk permissions in the Disk Utility app, I get the error message "The underlying task reported failure on exit."
Generally, the system does not have access to certain folders (most, if not all of them, actually).
For example, Safari can't use plugins.
I'm not asking why this is happening, I just want to know what I should do to avoid having to reinstall 10.5.5, update it to 10.5.6, and put all of my files back, because all my settings would be deleted if I chose that option.
I'm not going to turn off my computer until I fix this, because I know it will never startup--
again.
DUN DUN DUN...
So please help me, and thank you kindly,
SeanDaBomb

SeanDaBomb wrote:
I repaired permissions, updated prebindings, cleaned user caches and cleaned archived logs almost every single day before I restored my system. I was trying out this theme changer for Leopard that was unable to undo its (ugly) work. I think the problem might be that I restored the system from my 10.5.5 install disk (yes, in the Utilities menu, the Restore From Backup option).
Using a 10.5.5 install disc doesn't matter, as you didn't actually load anything from it, just used it's installer to do the restore from TM.
So you selected a previous backup, from before all the trouble started, right?
My backup drive's condition is alright, so I doubt that I restored corrupted files.
Everything now on your system came from your TM drive.
I'd suggest booting from your Leopard Install disk, and using it's copy of Disk Utility to do a +Repair Disk+ on your internal HD, then a +Repair Permissions.+

Disk permissions and Internet not working

I am have problems with:
1. Disk utility - run repair permissions and then states "Permissions repair complete". Run verify permissions and some of the same problems come back saying they are now this. This is after running them over and over again and doing nothing else on computer.
2. Problems connecting to internet. Wiring setup has not changed. Can't connect to (Example: www.google.com) using Safari, Firefox or Chrome, but can access iTunes Store and App Store with no problems.
I can't figure out what to do, any suggestions would be great.
John

jodmcc1,
Ignore the permissions thing, this is normal, you can repair constantly and it will always come up with something, so do not be concerened with that.
Here are some things to read on connecting:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1714?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6731
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6731

Repair disk permissions help

Hello all,
im fairly new to the macbook and have been reading up on repairing disk permissions as the mac has started to slow down in time
the problem i have is i opened disk utility
and ran verrify disk permisions, it found problems, so i restarted and held comand and r and booted into the recovery console
from there, i chose disk utilities and ran verify disk again, again it found problems, so i ran repair disk permisons, that came back and repaired succefull,
so just to check i then vefried the permisons again, and once again it found the same problems, so i then re - repaired the permisions, and again it cam back succefull
again i double checked and once again it found the same problems , so im going round in a loop here the problems arnt actually properly fixing?
how can i sort this out?
any help would be appreciated!
regards

Those messages are in fact quite similar to the ones Apple mention in the KB.
All the examples you posted are instances of the same symptom: the BOM states a given path is supposed to be a directory but it actually is a symlink to a directory.
A possible cause of this is when something was installed that did not foresee upgrades that would leave multiple versions installed at the same time, then the development team eventually decided that a new version would be needed to co-exist with the old one and such a new version has been installed. The old BOM file still report the directories (or files) as not being symlinks but the new installation actually moved the old data to a directory specific for the old version, installed a new version and then changed the old directory (aka the "unversioned" or "current" path) to a symlink to the latest installation.
You can safely ignore these differences.
While in the past running permission repair used to be a very important periodic maintenance routine, nowadays it's rarely needed and even more rarely useful. It still is a good idea to run it right before and after an important operating system patch update, but it's not really necessary.
It's very common (and has been for a long time) for the tool to report differences, say they have been repaired, and then, if run again, to report the same differences. In those cases you can generally ignore those differences. Only if the repair tool says it failed to repair something you should be concerned.

Beachballs, worldbooks, and disk permissions

hi everyone.
like many, i have a problem... well, a few actually...
1. start ups have been taking forever, and the computer has just been painfully slow overall. 2. when i finally do start up, i've been getting beachballs right away (before i can even get into any programs).
(as per some forums i've seen) to counteract this, I have:
re-updated the 10.4.11 combo; tried to free up some space on my HD (i was down to 30gigs, and now i'm back up to 50), including getting rid of some apps i don't need; AND i have tried to repair my disk permissions.
There has been some improvement once i'm in my system (though startup is still slow), however, these "solutions" have lead to two new problems...
1. Worldbook will not delete. i can't get rid of it. In fact, when i even try, i get beachballs of doom and my system freezes. To counteract this, i've even downloaded the tiger cache cleaner, and tried to do a force delete of it, but when i try doing that it even crashes the cache cleaner!!
2. disk permissions won't finish. it gets near the end and then it freezes up too. the program just stops responding. it does the same thing with verification too. And even when i try repairing the permissions from my new tiger cache cleaner toy, it ends up crashing that as well.
beachballs, worldbook, and disk permissions (not to mention the slow start up).
what the ****?

the.internet.***** wrote:
yes,
i was able to check my volume again in disk utility. it said 'not supported'. That's pretty new as far as i can tell.
Are you sure you had selected the disk and not the volume? i.e. something like "Toshiba CDEKHHBGN78WQ" rather than "Macintosh HD" or whatever.
This is your internal HD, correct?
The S.M.A.R.T. status should either be "verified" or say something about failing, as far as I know. It will say "not supported" about external FW drives, for example, as Disk Utility cannot gather the relevant information about those. It would also say this about older drives or any drive which doesn't support S.M.A.R.T.
If you are sure it said "verified" before, I would have to assume that the drive has failed. You shouldn't believe me, though, as this is just a suspicion - I don't know. I'm thinking that maybe if a drive is damaged badly enough, perhaps Disk Utility cannot even recognise the drive as supporting S.M.A.R.T. Does anybody know if that's possible?
even with this 'not supported' SMART status, do you think i could boot from disk warrior to repair my volume? i tried repairing again with disk utility, and it said the same thing about the keys, which Tom found was fixable with DW. but as far as i can tell i'm now into red alert. is it fair to say that right now (if i can afford it) my course of action would be to get DW, try that out, and if it doesn't fix things, then to take it into a shop, see if they can get my info off, and then wipe my harddrive?
If the drive has failed, DW won't help. It can't repair hardware. If the drive is still good, it is worth trying DW if you want to recover data from the disk. If your stuff is backed up, you could either try DW or wipe the disk and start over.
You might try running the hardware tests provided by Apple. This should be on the install DVD if your machine came with Tiger originally. Otherwise, you might have received a separate CD for this. You boot from the disk and run the tests. It won't find all hardware problems but it will check for some of the major ones. There should be instructions on the disk which say how to start up to run the hardware tests.
- cfr

Verify disk permissions question....

Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
ACL found but not expected on "Applications/Utilities".
ACL found but not expected on "Applications".
ACL found but not expected on "Library".
I verified my permissions on my internal disk with all my externals disconnected... this is what I got as a report. what does this mean and what should I do?
fresh install of Leopard and FCS2
also I still have Tiger and FCS1 (carbon copy cloned) on an external drive and it was hooked up to my iMac while I did the clean install of Leopard. now whenever I run FCP it will sometimes spin up the external and search for something even though I do not have it set for a scratch drive or anything.... what is going on? should all externals be disconnected while doing a fresh format and install of OS and Apps?
thanks for all your help.
DROCK

ok I found this article so I guess that answers my first question.... what about the disk spin ups????
thanks
issue or symptom
The following messages may appear in the Disk Utility log window when repairing disk permissions.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/authopen" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
"Any message that starts with: 'ACL found but not expected on...'."
Products affected
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Solution
You can safely ignore these messages. They are accurate but not a cause for concern.

Ignoring Disk Permissions (Back Up Internal)

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