Leopard's slooowwww Fix Disk Permissions

[MrKnewitAll]

I've just upgraded from G4 / PT7.2 to G5 8-core / PT7.4 and in the process of the installation I've come across the disturbing discovery that running "Fix Disk Permissions" in the Disk Utility takes a Long time.

When button is clicked, thermometer says approx. time to be 1 minute. I thought it was broken, as it got to about 10% and then didn't move for 5-6 minutes. I aborted several times, and while trying to find a contact number at Apple, eventually the thing completed. It took about 12 minutes. Subsequent re-running of FDP gave same results.

I know this isn't a Digi-Design issue- a Google search turns up a good number of similar stories. Has anyone found a cure or work-around for this?

[Eric Lambert]

That's the way it is on every Leopard machine I've worked on. It's unlike Apple to have such an apparent flaw in such a commonly used app like Disk Utility. The horribly inaccurate 1 minute status display just makes me laugh now. The first two times I repaired permissions I was really nervous because of that discrepancy.

[25ghosts]

VERY normal in Leopard

[EvilElfBoy]

Yeah its weird, but I'm used to it already.

[Irl Sanders]

Yeah, even using Cocktail under Leopard, repair permissions is a 15 minute job. Haven't seen anything authoritative as to why this is so. The main response seems to be that you don't need to repair permissions anymore.

[25ghosts]

Although it should be the same, for some reason it seem faster to do via the Terminal:

Open Terminal and type:

sudo -s then enter

at the prompt type your password and hit enter...

now type or copy this line

diskutil repairpermissions /