Guys,

I recently installed limewire on 10.3.9, tonight I went to repair my permissions and I got HUNDREDS of error messages regarding "drwxrwxr-x"

Has anyone else had this, or know what is?
I ran permissions before I installed LW and they were fine.

The errors were like these…
Permissions differ on ./Applications, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxrwxrwx
Owner and group corrected on ./Applications

Thanks in advance…

I've seen that before, when Repair Permissions is run from a different start-up disk (permissions are matched to the current system running).

Just restart in Safe Boot Mode (hold down the shift key right after the start-up tone), login to your usual user and run Disk Utility-Repair Perms again.

This will reset the perms back to your usual set.

Thanks.

So it's unlikely to be anything to do with LW then?

When I think about it, I think I may have clicked on the 2nd HD icon rather than the first.

Right--LW doesn't affect permissions.

btw, Repair Permissions is now considered "voodoo", and more likely to just make trouble. see Gruber's http://daringfireball.net/2004/12/software_update for more info.

cheers

Thanks.

I'll check that out.