Instruction Manual

Using DiskWarrior’s File Checking Chapter 2: Using DiskWarrior 44
box will cause this repair to happen. Repair Disk Permissions can only be performed on a
volume that has MacOS X installed on it.
Check All Files & Folders
Sometimes the internal structure of special files can become corrupt. Under MacOS X,
preference files, a well as many other data files, share a special format. If this format becomes
corrupt other parts of the OS will be unable to read these files or will read incorrect data, causing
bad system behavior. DiskWarrior will check the internal structure of these types of files for
flaws. If any are found they will be displayed in the report and you can remove those files.
The OS has certain limits for folder depth, number of files in a single folder, and length of file
path. DiskWarrior checks for these things and reports them so you can fix them.
Certain system symbolic link file(s) are needed as part of the installation of the MacOS X.
DiskWarrior checks these links and repairs them if possible. The report will tell you what files
were repaired and any that could not.