Running 10.5.2, I notice a few quirks and blips (formulate wouldn't run, for instance) so I decided to do some routine maintenance and run cocktail. Cocktail stalls when running disk permissions, so I gently got out of there and tried to repair disk permissions via Disk Utility. Same thing. It says "this will take less than a minute, and about 25% of the way through, it stalls. Anybody got any ideas on this?
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Re: Repairing Disk Permissions
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:21 AMI've found that, on more than one occasion, the permission repair will stall out for a couple of minutes ... and then finish up. The "under a minute" thing doesn't seem to be very accurate.
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Re: Repairing Disk Permissions
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 12:57 PMYou're quite right about the timer being a little "off." I tried it again, and walked away from the machine. When I came back about 10 min later, it was done.
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Re: Repairing Disk Permissions
Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:27 AM10.5 disk utility time estimates are fantasies. disregard them.
boot off the leopard install disk and run disk utility from there. more effective that way.
