also, where do you go to be "root?" terminal, I assume? I forgot how to do it, and for that matter, I think I forgot my root pw anyway
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > So then, what would be the case where you would need to go into the recovery > first, as Apple has always told me to do it that way. I'm not doubting > either of you. Please know that. I'm just trying to increase my knowledge > on this. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim Kilburn > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:49 AM > Subject: Re: Very confused on an aspect of repairing disk permissions > > Hi, > > An addition to chris B's explanation, as the root user, in any MacOS version, > you are able to manipulate and/or modify permissions on any active files. > This, in itself, is scary and one of the reasons why you need to be very > cautious when doing anything as the root user or even enabling the root user. > So, repairing permissions does not require a Recovery Partition nor a > separate startup volume, you just may be limited in what gets repaired. In > 95% of the cases that something needs repaired, it can be done while still > logged in to the running system. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Sep 2, 2015, at 08:53, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > If the OS is up and running you can run disk utility and do a disk permission > repair on the running system. Not sure if it is able to fix as many things as > when booted from another system but you do have the option. You can't do a > disk repair on the currently running system. > > CB > >> On 9/2/15 10:32 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >> Guys, >> >> Hopefully one of you all can explain this to me. >> >> First off, I'm not saying anyone is being untruthful. It's very very! >> likely that I may just not be understanding things entirely. I don't clame >> to be perfect. >> >> I have a friend who will be left unnamed who has a mac system running >> Snowleopard. NO, it's not the guy on this list ironically. Anyway, they >> had to recently repair disk permissions on their main internal Macintosh HD. >> They can't upgrade to Yosemite, as their system won't support it. Anyway, >> they have misplaced the Snowleopard DVD which came with their system. >> Further, they don't have any other bootable partition internally nor >> externally. So here lies my question. >> >> How in the world were they able without the SL DVD media or another bootable >> partition to repair permissions on their main primary macintosh HD volume? >> >> Here's the thing. From what I remember, correct me if I'm wrong, >> Snowleopard didn't have a recovery partition, did it? Normally, after Lion >> and higher, you could just boot, and hold down command+R to go to recovery. >> From here, you could run Disk Utility, and repair permissions. That's not >> going to work though in SL, as there's no recovery that I recall, hince why >> you got a physical DVD back in the days. >> >> You can't exactly repair permissions though while booted into the OS though, >> as certain files and folders will be in use, and the volume will be locked, >> therefore not allowing a repair to be done. So, with no media, and no >> external bootable partition, and no recovery partition, how in the world is >> he/she doing this? Either something's not adding up here, or I'm just >> thoroughly confused, and my guess is, probably the ladder. Just curious >> what on earth I'm missing here. 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