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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2462 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20070722/5d8e3bf2/attachment.bin
