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What is "verify disk" on my Apple Macbook pro?
My Apple is 2 years old and up to date. I keep having to repair Permissions to keep Virtual Box running to access Windows component.
I have had recent problems with Itunes crashing after a Podcast or music starts repeatedly stopping. Itunes is up to date too. I wondered if this verify disk would help. I don't want to pay Apple to get help for something their recent update messed up. It's been happening since I updated Itunes. I am old and not highly techny so simple is good.
I need to add that when Itunes crashes all I get is the swirling rainbow, nothing responds and I have to restart with button. when it restarts, it take a long time to come up. Everything was fine until this started and I am fine with the permission thing, it's some quirky thing and that's just where I saw "verify disk" and wondered what it did.
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- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
verify dild
- CanadaRAMLv 79 years ago
Verify disk is an option in Disk Utility (Applications: Utilities). It will check the health of the catalogs and directories on the hard drive. It will not repair any faults. You can't do a Repair on the boot drive. To repair the MacBook Pro's hard drive you will have to boot from the DVD drive or an external bootable drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5864
To do a disk repair without a bootable DVD or external, restart the machine and hold down the Shift key throughout the bootup process. Booting the machine in Safe mode like this initiates a disk repair at startup, it will take a Long time to start up the machine to the Finder. Once it finishes booting to the Finder, you can restart and let it boot as normal.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskU...
Unless there are some serious problems with the catalogs and directories, doing a Repair Disk is unlikely to solve your iTunes specific problem. You may have to delete and reinstall iTunes. If the problem is specific to one or a few Podcasts or songs, you may need to delete those specific items.
