Repair permissions slow

Trying to rebuild permissions with Snow Leopard on 2Ghz Intel Core2 duo Imac. Starts off with an estimated time of 28 minutes, but never progresses. Am booting from Snow Leopard master install disc. Is the process that slow? It hasn't been that slow with previous OS.

There's no need to boot from the installer unless you wish to repair the drive. I would advise this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. 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 your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If it's slow then it may be because there are problems. Leave it be until it finishes or throws an error message.

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Hi,
I have Leopard 'erase and installed' and am delighted with how much more quickly it boots now - even after re-installing my programs.
1: However, one thing is very slow. Repair permissions in Disk Utility shows estimated time less than one minute but it takes 15 minutes or more. It finds thousands of problems! Then when I run it again to check that all is well it takes just as long and reports having done the same repairs. And again. So the repairs are not actually getting done...
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You can ignore the SUID messages > Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore and that has no effect on speed.
Not enough free space on the startup disk can slow the system down.
Click your Apple menu icon top left in your screen.
From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info then select Storage from the menu.
Make sure there's never less than 15% available disk space.

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OK, lets try booting from your install CD (”C” key held down), when you get to the X window go up to the Main Menu under Installer and open Disk Utility. Select your hard drive from the upper left hand corner of the window and under First Aid run Verify and Repair.
After you verify the disk, look at the bottom of the window to see the S.M.A.R.T. status. If your disk is "verified," it's a valid disk with nothing wrong at this time. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, back up your disk immediately and have the disk replaced. It will fail.
Now select you startup drive from the Main Menu/Startup Disk and click Restart.
Also, after you restart hold down the Control key and click on your hard drive icon, scroll to Get Info, now look at your hard drive Capacity, Used and Available. Make sure you are not running out of hard drive space. Also you might take a look MacJanitor or any of the other utility software to help with a little house cleaning.
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Disk Utility Permissions Repair Running Slow

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Usually takes 3-4 minutes per item.
Now saying 9 hours.
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It will quickly drop. I've had it start with 22 hours, but only ended up taking 6 or 7 minutes.
Just for your further interest there is no reason to "often" repair or verify permissions or the hard drive. These should only be done if a permissions error or disk error has been reported or as a precautionary prior to installing new system software or cloning or backing up a drive for the first time.

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I know this has been discussed a lot here but I'm having trouble finding the definitive solution. If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful.
I click Repair Permissions and it says Estimated time: Less than 1 minute.
Hours later it finishes.
This gives me no confidence that it is working.
How do I get it to run at about the same speed as it used to in Tiger - a minute or so?
Thanks

IanB wrote:
Hi Thierry,
I can see you are whacking a few unix commands into a bash shell there but can you explain what they do for me?
Indeed! But I can't go to in detail on "how to" manage your Mac through a Unix shell. It's a bit of topic here. Anyways, here are some explanations on the commands themselves.
First I realize I've used one of my shell aliases 'll'. It's a command built in the Korn shell, that doesn't exists in Bash. So, I've created a convenient alias, that allows for some uniformity between the Unix shells I have to cope with.
alias ll='ls -alsG'
I've listed the content of the /Library/Receipts/db directory, which I'm allowed to read (and execute). This reports the presence of this file: a.receiptdb
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http://sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html
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Finally, I've listed again the directory content to see how much space that file has freed on my HD. It means that my DB file needed some clean-up/reorg.
That command 'echo $((291647488 - 284282880))' is simply to use the math functions of the Bash shell I've used here as a simple calculator.
The receipts DB file is appended with information about installed packages. It's used by Repair Permissions (of Disk Utility) and Software Update. Both applications need to read the patterns defined by the applications designers to correctly apply the Unix permissions to each of the files installed/created by applications ... MacOSX system in first place.
I hope this will help.
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Repair permissions in Disk Utility won't stop

OK, I've never done permissions repair on our MacBook Pro 15" (2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). (My apologies to the fastidious cleaners among this group.) I've done multiple upgrades over the past 4 or so years that we've owned it, including the latest upgrade to Lion for iCloud purposes. Because of processing time issues with Safari, I (a) cleared its cache, (b) deleted certain files in Home/Library/Safari (form values and download.plist) and in Home/Library/Preferences (com.apple.Safari.plist) and (c) tried to repair permissions in Disk Utility. All of this was per the recommendations of another Apple discussion group. (I also purchased (but have not yet installed) additional RAM to accommodate Lion and to address general operating slowness.) I started repair permissions about 11 or 12 hours ago and it's still going! While our MBP has a boatload of files on it, I'm wondering whether this is normal? Should I stop it and try something else? Thanks.

Cancel out of the Repair Permisisons and reboot the computer and start Safari.
Download this free program called OnyX and run ALL the checks, cleaning and maintainance tasks and reboot at the end.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
OnyX is much safer to use because it reminds you to reboot the computer to rebuild the cache files, which you likely didn't do, then went to Repair Permissions and files were missing and ikely the reason why it got stuck, but it could be something far worse and hopefully OnyX will reveal more details with the initial checks.
This is what I would do in your case.
Lion will run much better with more memory than 2GB, however I would seriously consider fixing your OS X and software issues first before upgrading the RAM.
While your inside the machine replacing RAM, you might as well replace the hard drive with a newer faster, 7,200 RPM drive too and rebuild the whole OS from the ground up.
Because your machine was upgraded one OS over another, you likely got a lot of cr*p built up and seriously need to consider doing a
backup of files on a external drive, better a whole drive clone
a format and "fresh install" of 10.5 on the new internal drive, use the same username and hard drive name as before
then upgrading to 10.6, make another clone here on another external drive
then upgrading to 10.7, followed by installing all your necessary programs fresh from orignal sources
and finally returning the contents of your user files folders (Music, Documents, Pictures, Movies etc) from backup right back into the same folders on the new configuration.
In that order as it's important for maintaining perfromance that the user files are returned last. Hard drives are faster up front than they are as they get filled up, since programs and OS doesn't move around much, installing them first as it's up front where the perfromance is best and your files, which do change often, are placed further down into free space thus the OS and programs remain fast for a longer period of time.
It is a LOT of work and you have a LOT to learn, but you got a older computer that you have neglected for some time and your trying to run a newer operating system. Good thing is your processor and video card are decent, so the computer has potential to live like a new machine. If your willing to apply labor or have a Mac geek do it for you. Else your looking at a buying a new machine prematurely.
If you can't c boot off the 10.5 grey disks, then your just going to have to start with 10.6 and buy iLife at the AppStore when you download Lion again with your AppleID (option click on Purchases)
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Colorsync/Display issue after repairing permissions

I'm working on a friends Mac with OS 3.9. She hasn't repaired permissions since Panther came out. Her computer was super slow, so I ran the repair. Display was perfect before the repairs. It completely improved the system but after the reboot the display got ugly. Blazingly bright colors mostly. I tried going into colorsync and changing profiles but to no avail they were all ugly. Then I tried to fix the problem by re-calibrating... no luck. When I reboot the system it comes up the correct colors for a moment then after a few seconds trips back into ugly mode. I tried removing the colorsync profiles and placed them in a folder on the desktop for safe keeping. Rebooted... still no luck. I might not have removed all the right files. Last thing I tried was to repair profiles in the ColorSync app. It fixed problems... but once again, it didn't change the display back to normal before or after the reboot.
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Welcome To Discussions JCTrick!
Open System Preferences > Displays > Display.
Adjust the settings there.
If that doesn't help, click on Color.
Checkmark the box for Show profiles for this display only.
Click on the display you wish to adjust, to highlight it.
Click Calibrate.
Follow the instructions. Sorry, I'm afraid I can't walk you through them, as it's been so long since I've done it! But you can stop the process at any time.
If none of that helps, run the Apple Hardware Test.
Good Luck!
ali b

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.

Repairing permissions frequently - daily

Can anyone shed light on this puzzle?: I have to repair permissions at least 2 or 3 times every day. I generally run only Mail 2.1.3, Safari 3.1.2, Filemaker Pro 5.5v2, Quickeys 3.2.3, and a small number of always-on gadgets (Sidenote, TypeIt4Me, Alarm Clock 2, NetBarrier - all current versions). I'm almost always running Safari and I do go through lots of tabs in a session (a minimum of about 500 each day), but I close excess tabs regularly (wish Safari would do that automatically!), and I relaunch Safari several times each day.
At least 2 or 3 times every day, Safari slows to a crawl and I use Oasis to repair permissions. It's almost always the same group of permissions that need repair. Here they are:
Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD
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
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD
Can anyone shed some light on why this happens so frequently, and what I might do about it? I've tried running Activity Monitor to see if that would tell me anything, but either it doesn't or I don't know what to look for.

If you were having any serious problems with your Mac you might as well complete the exercise by repairing your hard disk as well. You cannot do this from the same start-up disk. Reboot from your install disk (holding down the C key). Once it opens, select your language, and then go to Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Select your hard disk as before and click Repair.
Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
Then try this:
(First, if yours is an Intel Mac, check that Safari is not running in Rosetta, which is enough to slow it to a crawl.)
Many, including me, have had success with adding DNS codes to their Network Settings, with good results in terms of speed-up:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu. Click on TCP/IP and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' enter the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.
If that didn't do it, then try this as well:
Empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu), then close Safari.
Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete the following files:
form values
download.plist
Then go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete
com.apple.Safari.plist
Repair permissions (in Disk Utility).
Start up Safari again, and things should have improved.

Help re repairing permissions

Hi all, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum! i like many of us have just upgraded to Leopard with little or no difficulty. However last night before shutting down my MP i decided to repair permissions to ensure everything was still okay as it was a new O/S. On completing "Verify permissions I was given the following information:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreService/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Has anyone had the same message?
Does anyone know what it means?
Do I need to take any action? if so what would you suggest?
As I said earlier everything seems okay, and Time machine is backing up to my D2 Quadra external HD via Firewire 800 without issue. Your advice and guidance would be very much appreciated re this issue as I'm not sure how to proceed.
Thanks in anticipation of your valued help,
Denis

I found the same thing when when repairing permissions after noticing the slow boot up I have with Leopard and the taskbar taking so long to render. I was a little paranoid at first, but I am more at ease now.
Thanks for the post

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