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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
