On Dec 22, 2005, at 4:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.]
If you drag the folder from the window containing the file to a
terminal window, it sticks in the full path, from which you can copy
and paste. Also a handy tip for rapidly moving to a deeply nested
folder navigate via spring-loaded folders in the Finder, then drag
the result into terminal (after a cd command, of course) and go.
Sweet little trick.
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?
Yeah, but the *important* half that malcode needs is my manual
permission....that's the point of running as a sudoer rather than as
root.
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.
DiskWarrior is on my Must Have list, it's saved people's butts here
many times, including the time I recovered a munged Zip disk with the
only final copy of a major grant application that was due that day.
That one made a LOT of people happy. You rarely need it, but when you
do it's that magic happy place wand you can wave to make it all better.
NDD is vile trash.
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
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