Hi James On 9 Sep 2012, at 21:11, JAMES AUSTIN <[email protected]> wrote:
I was not aware of this, thank you for for letting me know. :) Let me give you an example of something which happened to Lynne quite recently. Apple recently released an update to their Remote Desktop manager admin application. There was an aspect of the newer version which, at the time, Lynne couldn't get to work properly. So, we thought, we have the older version in a recent backup. So, let's just replace the app with that older one and all will be well. As you might guess, however, things didn't turn out that way. When she ran the older app after dragging it into the /applications folder, all hell broke loose. We were getting systemic crashes and other nasty things. Connections to remote machines were broken, and would no longer function. She couldn't even establish the connections again at all. In the end, we had to re-replace the older version with the newer app, reboot the system and then she had to re-configure all of her connections again from scratch. Ultimately, we did get it working again. But it taught us a major lesson … don't fool about with systemic applications and try to revert back to older versions just like that. That is why I now always advocate doing a total backup of the system just before any major updates. Obviously, there will be times when just replacing the application with an older version will cause absolutely no problems at all. I wouldn't argue that point at all in the case of non-systemic applications. However, even then I would advocate caution. You can never be too careful and that's why applications such as Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper! are such indispensable tools. Gordon <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
