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Repair permissions to resolve slow system issues
Authored by: acroyear on May 31, '03 12:23:49PM

Right, and running non-prebound in my experience simply means about 5 minutes of sloth, while the system tracks down the libraries in real time.

I have a hard time believing that repairing permissions does all the miraculous things people are claiming it does. I am starting to wonder if this will be Mac OS X's equivalent of the "rebuild the desktop" supposed panacea. As you say, either a file will open or it won't. I've yet to see a BareFeats or XLR8YourMac site do even a sorta scientific test.

Even the original article shows us that the writer rebooted his Mac, which has actually been the main thing that has sped up slow systems I've been on (since memory gets freed up, there's less paging, and the hard drive gets rid of multiple VM swap files).

Now, all that said, can anyone tell me why whenever I check Ownership & Permissions on a file in the Finder, I get apparently varying gibberish/non-Roman characters followed by (Me) [okay, the "Me" I get, but why the rest of it? It's an English only system]?

--Acroyear



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