Hi Laura, That time estimate should go down a lot once you get started. It's an extrapolation based on how the process starts when you repair permissions. I'd be surprised if it takes anywhere near that long -- or even more than about 20 minutes.
I'm not sure how to give explicit instructions to troubleshoot this, but maybe Tim, Chris, or others can make suggestions. You should not be having these kinds of busy messages with your machine. A few things that I can think of, if Lion is your first operating system. By default, there are a lot of settings that will make Lion run with an apparently higher load factor than earlier Mac OS systems like Snow Leopard. By default it will re-open all the windows in applications like Mail and your Safari web browser when you launch each app. If you want to stop Lion from re-opening old windows in applications when you quit them, try using Command-Option-Q instead of Command-Q to quit. If you genuinely don't want the system to store all the states of your previously open windows, this will help minimize the load. Not having a lot of windows open at one time, especially in Safari, will help. Apart from that, it's possible you just have some runaway process that would show up in Activity Monitor, and that can easily be identified and killed by someone at the Apple Store Genius bar. You can make an appointment for this quite accessibly from the web site. I'd probably start at this page if you're in the U.S.: http://concierge.apple.com/reservation/us/en/techsupport/ Then I'd select my state and store and go the next step and choose "Mac" as the subject for your visit. You'll be able to choose you time slot, and make your reservation, optionally giving a short description of the issue. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 27, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Laura ann Grymes, LMT wrote: > I have a 500 gb HD and when I went to go start the process it said 1 hr 55 mn. > wow. > Laura Ann > > On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: > >> Hi Laura, >> >> I have a similar system to yours, and it takes less than 10 minutes. I have >> a 1 Terrabyte drive if that matters, not that much on it. >> >> Les >> On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:03 PM, "Laura ann Grymes, LMT" >> <agape.wellness.mass...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How long should repairing permissions take and do I need to do anything >>> before doing that? >>> It has done this from day one out of the box new. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Laura Ann >>> >>> On Jul 27, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >>> >>>> Oh. nuts. well, there goes that theory. :) Hmmm. repairing disk >>>> permissions would be my next step, as I don't know of any malware that >>>> could do it, even though that's what the behavior sounds like. >>>> >>>> >>>> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
