Actually, I am playing fair. In fact, I do own the files in question so can change or delete them. That is the way the original installer installed them.
My point was that if Apple really has changed permission handling in a way that affects installations, then the installer should be able to handle it in an intelligent way, as this is going to affect nearly everyone who installs. Stopping with an unintelligible error message is not handling the problem. I expected that the installer would actually do something along the lines of asking for administrator access, which is what should be happening for any installation into the system wide applications folder. Overall the installation process seems a very inconsistent - for example, the applications are installed system wide, but fonts are installed in the local user's font folder, not the system wide font folder. As it is, I have just had to waste two hours dumping the complete Office installation and reinstall because the VBA system suddenly started denying it existed (after stopping with a "not enough memory" error!). -- Eric Hildum > From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:16:11 +0100 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Office Update fails and screws up my Entourage > > On 22/10/2002 18:51, "Eric Hildum" wrote: > >> See above, if the permission change had an effect, then I would expect that >> the installer should be smart enough to handle it. This will, after all, be >> an extremely common issue that would be easy to diagnose and handle. > > Come on Eric, play fair! > > If an installer messed with things it wasn't supposed to you'd be crying > foul in an instant. Yet here you are asking why an installer can't just > ignore a users file privileges and change things the user has said it has no > right to? > > Privileges are there for a reason. NO installer should EVER override the > privileges set on any file. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
