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jhegg - Apr 11, 2008 - 6:09 pm

Since upgrading to leopard disk utility won't repair or verify. I have two users on my PowerPC G4. Why not?

Thanks

Jon

DeltaMac - Apr 11, 2008 - 8:04 pm

Are you asking about repairing permissions, or just a simple disk repair? Disk Utility won't repair the disk that you are booted to, so boot to your Leopard install disk, and try Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

If you are asking about repairing permissions, and not disk repair, then what do you get as an error message when you try to do the permissions repair? You can also try permissions repair when booted to the installer disk.

Let me know what you find out....
- Dale

jhegg - Apr 12, 2008 - 2:14 am

Thanks Dale

I am only interested in repairing disk permissions. The blue progress bar just gets stuck. It says its repairing and estimates one minute to complete. I've let in run a long time, but no joy.

How's that?

Jon

DeltaMac - Apr 12, 2008 - 6:42 am

How long did you let it run?
My PowerBook G4 (with Leopard) takes about an hour to complete the repair permissions, and appears to be stuck with about 1 minute remaining. It eventually does finish.
Give it time.

Repair permissions is not the routine maintenance task that it once was. You don't really need to run it very often - maybe a couple times a year....
- Dale

jhegg - Apr 12, 2008 - 7:56 pm

Well thank you Dale. That's all it was, time! It took over an hour, but it worked. It used to take 5-10 minutes approx, so it threw me.

I am in your debt!

regards
Jon