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Unable to Repair Permissions
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Patterson, NY USA
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I can't repair permissions on OSX.2.8
Disk Utility actually finds much that needs to be fixed but after each error it finds is the message "permissions not repaired. reason, operation not permitted."
I have never seen this behavior before. Can anyone help. There are three accounts on the system. All are set up as admin. This happens under all three accounts.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mt. Ararat, chillin' with Noah in the Ark's broken hull.
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try booting from the os install disc and running it there.
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All-seeing and all-knowing since 2000 B.C.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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No, you need to repair permissions booted off the startup disk in question. Doing it off the disc only repairs a small subset of the permissions.
tooki
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: New York City
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This problem can occur under Jaguar (not Panther). Disk Utility itself has incorrect permissions, which will prevent you from repairing permissions on your disk.
Here is a utility that fixes that...
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fdup/fdup.html
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Asheville, NC
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As a piece of info for people who find this when searching, if you delete the pkgs out of /Library/Receipts, you can't repair permissions. This is unrelated to the issue at hand, though.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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