[malique]

Following this beautiful article

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...intenance.html

it is something we can't do often enough so - where's the tool to stop doing it manually every time I installed something?

[gorickey]

Macaroni 1.4.4.....

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9633

[malique]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Macaroni 1.4.4.....

*singin* U are my HEEEEEROOOO...

[gorickey]

Wow, I've never been sung too "virtually" before....

Thanks!

[geltab]

Would anyone know why everytime I try to run disk utility, it crashes? It starts ok, but when I try to click on my hard drive it crashes everytime.

thanks

[gorickey]

Originally posted by geltab:
Would anyone know why everytime I try to run disk utility, it crashes? It starts ok, but when I try to click on my hard drive it crashes everytime.

thanks

Permission issue it sounds like...do you see the same behavior under a different user??

[geltab]

I only use my pb under my name. Any ideas?

thanks for the help

[gorickey]

Originally posted by geltab:
I only use my pb under my name. Any ideas?

thanks for the help

Sure, create another user...login and test the situation under the new user. If it works, then you know it's a "user" issue and probably a permission problem; however, if it persists under the new user, then it's a "system" issue and may be more involved.

BTW, you can simply delete the new user once it's created if you so choose once done...

[dagaz]

Originally posted by geltab:
Would anyone know why everytime I try to run disk utility, it crashes? It starts ok, but when I try to click on my hard drive it crashes everytime.

thanks

There's a freeware application out there called "Repair Disk Utility's Permissions", try versiontracker.

[geltab]

Link (dyld) error:

dyld: /Users/zach/Desktop/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility Undefined symbols:
/Users/zach/Desktop/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility undefined reference to _PMIdentModify expected to be defined in MediaKit

this is the error I get. Do you think that program will help. They have an error listed that the program fixes and it doesn't look the same.

Thanks.

[geltab]

It worked under a new name. I did the repair permissions. Will this apply to my original user name if I delete the new user id. Also, how do I fix my original id so that I can access disk utiliy under that id? Thanks again for the help.

[Hop Pocket]

that's super!

[gorickey]

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[gorickey]

[xeo: thanks goricky, i merged the threads so this post would be pretty confusing now]

[madmacgames]

you can change the time when the periodic maintenance scripts run to sometime you're computer will most likely not be asleep.

The crontab for these is located at:
/etc/crontab (just do `sudo pico /etc/crontab`).

you can also check the date on the logs of there to see the last time they ran at:
/var/log/daily.out
/var/log/weekly.out
/var/log/monthly.out