Repair permissions takes ages under 10.6.8 and finds thousand of differences in Application folder

Permissions differ on standard applications:  dvd player, etc
ACL found but not expected on almost all standard applications

I agree with Ramon!
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 and 10.6:
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 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.

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    Hi,
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    I have tried quitting all apps, logging out, trying again, trying in a test account and nothing changes the fact that it takes 5 minutes approx to complete the job.
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    I recently installed Photoshop Elements but it wasn't running at the time and once permissions were sucessfully repaired it still displayed all the symptoms described above.
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    Any light shed gratefully received.

    Here goes,
    Ran permissions repair from DVD and it did the same thing so I clicked stop repair, the button went blue and nothing else happened for 10 minutes. I forced a shutdown and started again.
    This time I went straight for repair disk and it said...
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    Checking HFS Plus Volume
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    (Red Text)-> Invalid node structure
    Volume check failed
    Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit
    (Black txt)-> HFS Volume checked
    (Red text)-> 1 Volume could not be repaired because of an error.
    So, I have backed up this HD but will my clone be duff as well now or is this a physical corruption to the actual structure of the disk? I guess I can check using DUtility on my external HD.
    I guess I'd better call apple eh!
    Thanks, Ben.
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  • After trying to change permissions on my computer so others on my network can access files, my external Hard Drive has a lock on it and I can't access files. I've tried repairing permissions, logging in under another Administrator account, using Terminal

    After trying to change permissions on my computer so others on my network can grab files, my external Hard Drive has a lock on it and I can't access files. I've tried repairing permissions, logging in under another Administrator account, using Terminal to fix the problem, downloaded BatChmod but nothing works… Any other suggestions? I have an Imac running OS10.6.8.

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  • Repairing permissions takes a long time!!

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    Message was edited by: macjack

  • Repair permissions takes for ever again

    Hi,
    I had a problem on my PB G4 further to running Repair Permissions from a Tiger boot disk: it took almost a night for Disk Utility to read through the database and to repair permissions.
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    I ran Repair Permissions at the end of the procedure and ... it kept reading the permissions database relatively quickly, BUT it took 1:30 hour to repair them! Eventually, it ended up with just a single correction related to "private/etc/cups".
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    Disk Utility's Repair Permissions doesn't do anything for items in a user's home folder, or if an application is not installed using Apple's installer, so for the most part it is pretty much useless - although some people swear by it (others at it). You really shouldn't be messing with the permissions at all on system files and folders (this includes the "apply to enclosed items" from the Get Info), so it won't do anything anyway unless these get messed up.

  • HT4710 when i try to go into iphoto i get a message To examine and repair permissions, quit iPhoto. Press the Command and Option keys while you open iPhoto, and select "Examine and repair iPhoto Library file permissions."

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  • Permission Repair takes AGES under Leopard

    I have noticed that under Leopard permission repair can take over 20 minutes to complete. On the same machine using Tiger it was only a matter of 2 minutes (at most). Does anyone have an explanation, fix or idea that might point me in the right direction? It's not as if the machine that I'm using is underpowered and the problem doesn't appear to be connected with the size of the machine anyway; my MacBook Pro takes less time (about 4 minutes) than my 3.0 GHz Xeon Quad for permission repair of the system disk.....
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  • Why Repairing Permissions takes so Long

    Is it normal for the Leopard Disk Utility to take a really long time to Verify and/or Repair Permissions?
    Repairing Permissions under Tiger was not bid deal bug in Leopard it really seems slow. There is now a timer but it it not even close. The one minutes can turn into 5 to 15 minutes. I wonder if the delay means there is something wrong with my installation?
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    There are more permissions for Leopard to check than there were in Tiger. I'm not sure that is the complete explanation but repair permissions does take a long, long time in Leopard and the progress indicator being stuck on 1 minute for so long adds insult to injury. You can post a complaint about it to Aople Feedback.
    http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
    I've not found that verifying permissions is noticeably faster than repairing them so I never use the verify function.

  • Repair permissions Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit, ever since time machine system restore

    Recently had to restore system 10.5.8 Leopard startup volume using Time machine. After many hours of migrating additional important databases that were recovered from failing startup drive, everything seemed to be back up and running smoothly on a new WD 1tb Black drive. Right before I run timemachine again to backup the new revised seemingly stable startup volume, I choose to repair disk permissions using disk utility. Repair permissions failed with this error, The underlying task reported faliure on exit. I tried using the OS X DVD to repair permissions, Diskwarrior, Onyx, none are able to reapair the disk permissions. Although everything seems perfect I would imagine that the system will fail eventually. It's strange that I had no problems repairing disk permissions in the past on this particular system that was the most recent backup. What should I do ?

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  • Repairing permissions takes forever

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  • Repair permissions error.  SUID file has changed and will not be repaired?

    I repaired permissions tonight and I get the error message quoted below.
    I don't understand the warning around the SUID file. I don't know if I should be concerned about this or what this file does. Any information or advice?
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    Im just glad to see others have the exact same permission changes, which as the other replied stated, makes me not worry about it.
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  • Google, Facebook etc take ages to load on Safari (and Firefox)

    There have been a few threads on this issue...but none seem to have a solution that works for us.
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    4.. Changed/added DNS numbers to airport (via airport utilities) and change the airport settings (using openDNS numbers).
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  • Repair Permissions Feedback ?

    I usually repair permissions about once a week or so and find that it repairs the same thing almost every time? I am just wondering what exactly it is and why it keeps having to be repaired? Any help would be appreciated.
    Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
    Determining correct file permissions.
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    Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
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    That message means that the weekly cron task has been run since you last used the repair permissions command; this task sets the permissions on the secure.log file as well as several others to -rw-r----- after rotating the logs, which allows all admin users to read the log. The repair permissions command changes them to -rw------- to keep the secure.log file secure, with only root able to read or change the log's contents.
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  • Repair permissions now takes 15-30 minutes

    In leopard, permissions repair was slooooow. but upon moving to SL, it got a lot faster - that is, until just recently, probably coinciding with the 10.6.2 update, where it now gets stuck at the "2 minutes remaining" mark for approximately 15-30 minutes. it is at this point, we get the message:
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    anyone else experience this?
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    K T wrote:
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21041?viewlocale=en_US
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    i've seen this issue before - but my problem is that repairing permissions takes up to half an hour now. on my MBP, which runs the same version of OSX and has a much bigger drive, repairing permissions takes under 5 minutes.
    i'm wondering if it's an unrelated issue. is it possible to see what's hanging up the permissions repair?
    Message was edited by: bscepter

  • Repair Permissions Error (Close to Runs too long, No Progress Bar)

    I have gotten this Repair Permissions error at least 10 times:
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