Lost Option For Disk Repair Permissions

Question

Hi Gang
I'm using 10.4.11
Unless I'm missing something here, it seems I've lost the option to Repair Disk Permissions for all of my
Non-System Drives? I now only have the option to Repair Disk Permissions for the System Drive only.
I never had this condition before - always ran Repair Disk Permissions for all the external drives on a regular basis. Perhaps this process was never necessary to begin with? But that still doesn't explain why the option is 'Grayed Out'
What have I done differently? The only thing I can think of, is the fact that I added an 800 FW cable internally (to the 3rd internal FW800 Out Port), on one if the PCI Multi Port Cards. That additional Drive is turned off right now.
Screen Shots;
http://www.locationstudio.net/YesRepair.jpg
http://www.locationstudio.net/NoRepair-1.jpg
http://www.locationstudio.net/NoRepair-2.jpg
Yes I realize I have a lot of external drives, but I'd rather not get into a discussion of SATA Controller Cards at this point. I've got tons of Video Files that would ALL need reconnection in FCP. Trust me, it's not an option right now.
I'm just looking for an opinion about the loss of that Option to 'Repair Disk Permissions'
Thanx
Mike

Answer 1

And you mean, therefore, only SYSTEM Disks can have 'Repair Disk Permissions' performed? Correct?
Correct.
If so, then why was I able to see that function before? 'Repair Disk Permissions' was ALWAYS there despite the circumstances. Ummm?
Did you ever clone your internal to these before? It really should not be available unless there is an OSX on it.
How bout 'Disk Repair'? Does it benefit to perform this function on all of these external drives? I've always read this before.
Actually, THE most important one is Disk Repair, and it really should be done before any Permission Repairs... now it's not a problem to Repair Permissions if the Disk is OK, but Repairing Permissions if the Disk Directory is the slightest messed up is like sending envelopes of cash out to addresses, but all the street signs have been changed.
Just to see if it would make a difference, I checked the Box 'Ignor Disk Permissions' Same result - can only perform 'Disk Repair'
Yes, the way it should be, but normally you want Ignore permission set on external drives. You can have or set Permissions on external drives, but it's normally not needed.
BTW, Repair Permissions does not Repair all Permissions on your Boot Drive either, just on System Files/Folders, not any in your Users folder for instance.