Use Apple's Disk Utility (found in Utilities folder) to Verify/Repair
Permissions. Just open it, select the HD or partition to be checked, and click
on 'Repair Disk Permissions'
- takes less than a minute for a 40GB HD. How To
Maintain Your Mac
Use Apple's Disk Utility (found in Utilities folder) to Verify/Repair
Permissions. Just open it, select the HD or partition to be checked, and click
on 'Repair Disk Permissions'
- takes less than a minute for a 40GB HD.
To actually repair or fix your HD, you need to bootup from your system CD and
use the Disk Utility found on the StartUp screen.
An inexpensive shareware called Macaroni
can also be used. This tiny app runs automatically in the background in your
System Prefs folder and is very effective at keeping things running smoothly
on your Mac..
And, of course, just restarting your Mac once in awhile does
wonders for clearing up invisible quirks.
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