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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Disk First Aid running on every boot
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:14:30 +0000
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Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> wrote:

> In article <vj525a$18c4$1@dont-email.me>,
>  super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > On 2024-12-08 19:58:35 +0000, Knezzen said:
> > 
> > > In article <vintageapplemac-3011240518390001@192.168.1.134>,
> > >  vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:
> > > 
> > >> As subject, every time I boot this machine up lately the Disk First Aid
> > >> alert appears telling me the computer didn't shut down properly and then
> > >> it scans for errors. Thing is, I shut the computer down correctly every
> > >> time!
> > >> 
> > >> Machine is PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz, OS9.2.2, hard drive is a 256GB SSD
> > >> hooked to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.
> > >> 
> > >> Any ideas why this keeps happening? It has done it before in the same
> > >> way over the years, there'll be a period where it boots fine and then
> > >> a period where it always runs Disk First Aid, and then it'll go back
> > >> to booting fine for a time for no rhyme or reason... I have a
> > >> relatively fresh install on the machine now, a couple of months old,
> > >> and it was booting straight into OS9 for a while before this started
> > >> happening again. I have done no recent software installs that
> > >> correlate with it beginning, either.
> > >> 
> > >> I can disable Disk First Aid from ever running at start-up, is that
> > >> recommended or cautioned against?
> > > 
> > > From my experience I started getting this *all the time* when I moved
> > > from rotating storage to SSD's in my machines about 10 years ago or so.
> > > 
> > > Something about how a volume is flagged as "dirty" in Mac OS 9.2.2 is
> > > problematic when using more modern storage solutions. I tend to just
> > > disable the boot check in the "General Controls" control panel and keep
> > > an eye on my volumes with Disk First Aid twice a year or so.
> > > 
> > > -Theo
> > 
> > Wonder if you could just compress Disk First Aid into a self-extracting
> > archive and use it when needed, that's what I do with apps that don't
> > behave like I want them to. If it froze the machine on start up for
> > some reason though that wouldn't work.
> 
> It's not really using the main Disk First Aid application, it's a on 
> boot control of the filesystem independant of it. Running Disk First Aid
> manually works fine, and the on boot check runs fine. The problem is 
> that it keeps appearing every boot for some reason, despite the system
> shutting down correctly.

Just a remote possibility:  have you checked to see if there is
something in the Startup Folder that shouldn't be there?


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