logical. best...skip

On Jul 22, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Lee Larson wrote:

> On Jul 22, at 2:36 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote:
>
>>
>>> Is there a "proper procedure" for repairing permissions?
>>
>> allegedly the more productive method is to boot from the install cd >
>> disk utility. otherwise, i close everything but disk utility
>
> I don't think this is a good way to do it. When programs are  
> installed by Apple's installer, a "Bill of Materials" is stored in / 
> Library/Receipts/ on the boot disk. If you repair permissions from  
> an older boot disk, such as the install CD, you'll be using an  
> older and incomplete BoM database. This older set of information  
> might not contain corrections for BoM mistakes, and will likely be  
> incomplete.
>
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