Permissions problem in 10.5.8 is patched by Snow Leopard...

Jonny Evans
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August 29, 2009
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We’ve just come across what appears an interesting report, which describes problems and a solution for fixing permissions in Snow Leopard and Leopard.

The report comes out of Macworld via Network World, and describes situations in which users upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 have faced problems fixing permissions on their start-up drive using Disk Utility.

There’s a rich stream of user comments on this over across at Apple’s very own Discussions forums.

Ted Landau has described a fix for afflicted users, which also includes news of a little-known Knowledge Base article detailing permission error messages you can happily ignore.

Otherwise the recommended repair is to download the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update and reinstall the update twice--without selecting to repair permissions in between.

Landau also found that upgrading to Snow Leopard seems to address the permissions problems he was facing.

Comments (2)

PeterZ (not verified) | August 29, 2009 - 7:53am

Ugh, nothing worse than hearing the "Fix" is to install the update Twice. Oddly enough, the last permissions problem I had with my Mac, was fixed this exact same way.

Josh (not verified) | August 29, 2009 - 8:48am

I ran the combo updater twice and it didn't fix anything for me. I get a bazillion lines saying, this differs and that differs, nothing says they were fixed