On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 1:22 PM -0700 12/22/2005, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Just a quick question...did you install PS as you or as another
user? I wonder, I've run into some odd problems with other
programs when that's done. MS Office is one.
I installed it from the main admin acct.
I do all my script/package and kernel installs from an admin
account, usually with permissions repairs fore and aft. I do the
quickie drag installs from whereever. I do all my labours from a
regular user account.
Just like Tom, it's corrupted user prefs (the Settings). File
ownerships are fine.
For grins, I spent time with PS from the admin acct - now it won't
open files either.
You know..I never do that. I have an unused test account, but
otherwise I have one account that does everything, install and delete
programs all the time, and never seem to have these kinds of problems.
For the life of me I don't know why..I don't do any particular
maintenance, I don't repair permissions, ever, I run fink, I run
darwin ports, I fecklessly run system upgrades the moment they come
in, run untested beta software, I never defrag my disks, the only
time I ever format the disks are when I first get them, never run
Disk Utility or DiskWarrior (at least preventatively...the ONE time I
ran DW on a drive that didn't need it, it ate the directory. I had to
restore from a backup and start over.)
That's the ONE thing I do do: keep a backup of my stuff reasonably
current, and I have everything on good UPS'es. Ok, my two things I do
are keep a backup, use a ups, and run MacJanitor once in a blue moon.
My Three things... (sorry couldn't resist, BBC America ran the
Spanish Inquisition episode of Monty Python the other night...)
It's like my Honda Civic...I feed it gas and give it new tires and
oil now and again, just jump in it and go. That's my Macs...I don't
spend a tenth of the time futzing with the system that most people
seem to think is required; OS X has been like stable as a rock on
every one of them.
Most of the rest of the macs here are the same. People just turn 'em
on and use 'em.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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