Hi Damon, Rich, and Others,
You don't need to run the Combo Updater unless you have been seeing
problems on your machine. Here's the background: Cara saw some
permissions errors reports on her machine after her last update to
10.5.5. Scott Bresnahan told her that the messages were probably
harmless, but if she was worried about them, she could download the
Combo Updater for 10.5.5 and run it. It did, indeed, make these
messages go away. David then asked, as you guys did, why bother to do
this if you've been running the software updater. I replied that
this is a standard piece of advice if you've been seeing problems with
your computer after applying updates. Basically, the software updater
keeps track of what system software and updates are installed on your
computer, and informs you of incremental updates to install.
Occasionally, it's bookkeeping is off. In those instances, you can
fix problems by installing the larger Combo updater from Apple's
Software Downloads pages. Whether or not you see an improvement may
also depend on what your machine configuration is. For example, David
uses Braille devices with his Mac, and saw problems with their use,
and I do not. This is usually something you try when you think there
is a problem. (I did run the Combo updater for 10.5.4 when I noticed
unstable focus behavior, but this didn't solve things for me.)
There's no harm in running it; it just takes up more disk space than
the regular software updates. As I said, it's usually run when you
notice problems. And probably thanks are due to Scott for any of
David's fixed focus problems, since he made the original suggestion!
<smile>
Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Damon Fibraio wrote:
I am kind of confused. I just ran software update. I had 10.5.5 on
there and
the only thing it listed was the java update. Which I assume that I
have
this combo update that David is talking about. I run software update
pretty
religiously, so I assume that I have it.
-----Original Message-----
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Poehlman
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:50 PM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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Subject: Re: combo update deffinitely worth getting:
It is not automatically installed. There are three ways to update.
1> via software update.
2> via the apple web site to get the same update you get via software
update.
3> via the apple web site to get the combo update.
The combo update makes an assumption that you have not updated since
the
most recent major update so that you don't have to run all those
updates
inbetween which you can also do via software update.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: combo update deffinitely worth getting:
I assume this won't come via the automatic update option? Is this a
correct
assumption?
If I look at "about this mac", I see that its at version 10.5.5;
does this
mean this update is already installed?
Its about 600 megabytes.
-- Rich
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From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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the blind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:52 PM
Subject: combo update deffinitely worth getting:
Hi all,
Before I installed the combo update of osx 4.5.5, I had all kinds of
focus issues. I also had braille focus issues worse than any I had
seen and this was after going through software update to grab 4.5.5.
Running the combo update made things much better.
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