It was time to do some maintenance work on my wife’s iBook. I forget her computer most of the time in my maintenance runs. That’s terrible because I should take care of her iBook; I mean, she is the most important person in my life, so taking good care of her computer should not be something that slips my mind…

Anyway, after running all the updates, cleaning up her hard disk, and rebooting her system (it was online for about 64 days!), I started Disk Utility to restore the permissions. This is something you should do quite regularly because it helps solve minor problems and makes your computer run just a bit smoother.

I stumbled on a really nasty situation. Disk Utility started off with no problems, but after a couple of minutes I got the following error:

“Lost connection with disk management tool… cannot continue… quit and relaunch.”

This sounds scary, huh? I agree! I fired up Disk Utility and tried it again. Same problem.

So, because I never saw this error before, I started to search the Internet. Now, the problem is easily solved. It seems that the iTunes update causes this problem and you can solve it by following this procedure.

• Go to the following directory: /Library/Receipts

• Remove the file called: iTunesX.pkg

Now you should be able to launch Disk Utility and run it without any problems.

On the Internet you can find a couple of other solutions, but I think that this is the best (and easiest) way to go!

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