At 3:33 PM -0700 12/22/2005, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.
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.
So far only problem of this nature has been PS. ...specifically
corruption of the file "Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings/Adobe Photoshop
CS2 Prefs.psp".
[Aside - is there a tool that would allow me to copy the full path of
selected file(s), in the Finder, to the clipboard? for pasting into
things such as this email.]
I prefer to keep my work away from an admin-enabled account because I
know too much about the *nix underpinnings. An account with that
flag set is half of what simple malcode needs. I figure why give it
even that half?
For the life of me I don't know why..I don't do any particular
maintenance, I don't repair permissions, ever,
The issue is level of trust, I guess. I've started reading the
various logs kept by the system. Learning what the repairs should
look like, etc. Hafta admit - since the last security update, I
haven't seen repair permissions do anything really meaningful.
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
Except for an out-and-back once every few years, I don't really
defrag either. And now even that should be unnecessary with Tiger.
I don't own NDD or DW. I've run a few repair passes from DU, after
some bad freezes, but it's never found anything. knock wood.
That's the ONE thing I do do: keep a backup of my stuff reasonably current,
Me too. :)
- Dan.
ps. VCR/DVR/TiVO Alert!
Tonite, 11:30pm, on TCM - my fav Xmas movie - "Fitzwilly" !!!!!
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