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Originally Posted by ra3ndy Another thing to do to clear up flaky system behavior is Repair Permissions. Do this by opening Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) and clicking "Repair Permissions"
It also doesn't hurt to run some general maintenance scripts on your Mac from time to time. There are many free programs out there that run the full gammut of maintenance scripts, but Cocktail seems to be a preferred program on this forum. |
Those are both good ideas in general, especially for dealing with a system that seems to be running more slowly than normal, but neither suggestion is at all likely to fix the problem complained of here.
In fact, there are some folks who dispute whether repairing permissions ever helps anything. See:
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php
My view isn't that extreme, but I've never heard that repairing permissions can fix a problem with application and general system kernal panics. Indeed, as I said previously, I've rarely heard of a software problem causing kernal panics.
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