Heh, Mikey-San you're something else.

Larry Jordan is a highly respected, Apple-certified media consultant and broadcast editor, among other things. Oh, and here's another forum for video professionals who talk along similar lines. You can go set them all straight if you like. http://forums.creativecow.net/forum/applefinalcutpro

I think that Mikey-San like many posters here is only interested in ensuring this site has the right info.

If anybody's website says that you should repair permissions on a weekly basis, that to do this you should safe boot your machine before repairs, and restart it afterwards, and for further info one should read about drive journaling, then this tells me two things: -

1. The user doesn't know what he is talking about,
2. If by some very strange reason, he does benefit from doing such things to his computer, then there is a far more serious underlying issue that he would be advised to address.

I think most people here would agree that I know a little something about permissions in Mac OS X.

Please read:
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/re...issions_voodoo
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php

Here's the real story about file defragmentation in Mac OS X, which as you will see, does not apply to extremely large files (as a Final Cut user might encounter):
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpo...2&postcount=10

Yes, I've come across these articles before. I guess time will tell whether it's truly a "myth" about repairing permissions. Nevertheless, right or wrong, repairing permissions is frequently noted as a basic maintenance step for FCP....and as your articles state it isn't exactly doing any "harm", even if it may be useless. And I still don't think it's fair to write off the author's credibility like that. He may not know the inner workings of OS X as well as some people here, but regarding editing system matters, I'll put more trust in him and other experienced editors.

Heck, I don't even know if the original poster is actually using FCP, I just hope he gets the help he needs and simply tried to impart what information I've learned.

"We don't really understand how Mac OS X works, but I believe him!"

It's completely fair to write off the credibility of a technical article when the author has no idea how the system works. I dunno what kind of science you practice, but that's how I roll.

edit: It also doesn't help his credibility that he's wrong.

Thanks, best of luck on your mission and be sure to bug Apple and FCP developers to let them know we've been in the dark all these years.

I am not sure this would be the greatest idea. I think that drive would become full in no time and be pretty useless as a defrag backup. If the idea is to wipe out the original drive and the copy over a backup then I would use superduper or CCC and not Time Machine.