Hi Lynn, I am not an expert, but I tend to close all applications when repairing permissions except for VO, as I have no other way of knowing if the process has finished. But perhaps I will and then give it around 10 minutes. Of course, it will take longer if you don't do it often.
I also repair Permissions before and after a Software Update and sometimes after installing new software. Hope this helps TC James Lyn Nash & Twinny On 5 Feb 2010, at 11:11, Lynn Schneider wrote: > Hi everyone. If you are having problems with your system and you want to > repair permissions to try and fix them, is it necessary to close all apps > first? I noticed that last time I repaired permissions, it did fix a bad > Safari problem, but when I looked at the log, it showed that certain files > were not able to be opened or something like that. I'm going to try > repairing permissions again just as a routine maintenance thing, but this > time maybe I would turn Voiceover off first? I just wanted to know what you > all thought. I don't exactly understand what repairing permissions does, but > I noticed that when I had to force quit Safari because it was acting up on > several occasions, I repaired permissions and it made Safari like new again, > so it does indeed work sometimes. > > I crashed the new iTunes already this morning, so thought I'd repair > permissions just to make sure things were on the right track for this new > version. > > Thanks in advance for any insights. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
