> My girlfriends Macbook (Core Duo 1.83Ghz 2GB RAM, 120GB HD, Leopard  
> 10.5.7 and all updates) has been running a little slow recently and  
> have been looking at it to figure out why.

> I went into Disk Utility and ran a Repair Permissions. After about 4  
> mins of running that, it kicks up a lot of errors, mainly referring  
> to incorrect permissions on some files in System/Library/
> PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.Framework/, System/
> Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app, Quicktime Player.app Quicktime  
> preference pane, and iPhotoAccess.framework folders.

> Repair did nothing, also tried it running off the Leopard install  
> DVD. I've done a disk verify and that came up clean.

> I am wondering whether I need to worry about this, and if so, what  
> could people suggest to help? I have AppleCare on my machine so have  
> the TechTool Pro DVD. Is that any good?
> Should I just do an Archive and Install?

> Thoughts welcome as always

> Dom
> Sent from my iPhone 3GS's Palm Pre

> Do the errors look like these?
> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
> They can be ignored.

> If you do use Techtool check there haven't been any updates to it.
> Apple shipped a version with 10.4 macs that completely borked a 10.5
> boot disk if you turned on all the tests / repair actions. Disk
> warrior was the only way to fix for me. You could try the Apple
> hardware test (boot instructions are written on the install DVD), it
> may be built in to the mac's EFI firmware too. Chances are it won't
> report much, but it could.

> Don't forget the maintenance tasks -> ($ sudo periodic daily weekly
> monthly) should run them all or use Onxy or Tinkertool etc…

> Re:co
> On 1 Jul 2009, at 18:28, Dom Barnes wrote:

> > Howdy

> > My girlfriends Macbook (Core Duo 1.83Ghz 2GB RAM, 120GB HD, Leopard
> > 10.5.7 and all updates) has been running a little slow recently and
> > have been looking at it to figure out why.

> > I went into Disk Utility and ran a Repair Permissions. After about 4
> > mins of running that, it kicks up a lot of errors, mainly referring
> > to incorrect permissions on some files in System/Library/
> > PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.Framework/, System/
> > Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app, Quicktime Player.app Quicktime
> > preference pane, and iPhotoAccess.framework folders.

> > Repair did nothing, also tried it running off the Leopard install
> > DVD. I've done a disk verify and that came up clean.

> > I am wondering whether I need to worry about this, and if so, what
> > could people suggest to help? I have AppleCare on my machine so have
> > the TechTool Pro DVD. Is that any good?
> > Should I just do an Archive and Install?

> > Thoughts welcome as always

> > Dom
> > Sent from my iPhone 3GS's Palm Pre

> Safely ignoring.

> Any other tips? Doing a rebuild on iPhoto cos that seems to go  
> mental on the fans and CPU. Gonna run the cron jobs with onyx now.  
> Think its probably just overstressed. Poor core duo.