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10 hours repairing permissions

Hi, I restored a timemachine backup to a new Bigger Hardrive but the system doesn't start up. so I'm doing Repairing permition from another installation of OSX, the thing have been doing the repairing permtion for 3 hours and said that I…

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@andycorleone Published 2009-02-23
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Leopard 10.5
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3,942 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2009-02-23 – 2009-02-25
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Hi, I restored a timemachine backup to a new Bigger Hardrive but the system doesn't start up. so I'm doing Repairing permition from another installation of OSX, the thing have been doing the repairing permtion for 3 hours and said that I will need 10 hours more, is this normal ?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

2 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @blast9999 2009-02-23

Did you reinstall chameleon after you restored the backup? It should boot. No point in repairing persmissions until it boots.

Field Note #2 @Ali C. 2009-02-23

No that probably is far from normal. Reinstalling Chameleon will probably fix it faster than that, though.

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@andycorleonePrimary Author22009-02-23 → 2009-02-25
@blast9999Contributor12009-02-23
@Ali C.Contributor12009-02-23

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