>Neil Hughes / 04.3.26 / 0:48 PM wrote: > >>I think I got a bit overexcited there...there's nothing in Application >>Support that looks relevant to PowerMail. > >That's exactly it. Because the privilege was set to drwx------, nothing >got installed there so applications such as AppleMail and PM go look for >AddressBook support files there, find nothing there -> crash. >There is the problem! >:-) > >Repair Permission won't go look there because the directory is unrelated >to Receipt. At this point, you might want to archive install because >even if you correct the permission issue you are already missing files. > >In my case, I am running multiple machines here so I just copied needed >files after chomod. >
Well, I did the archive install...and it worked! This message comes to you via 10.3.3 :-) Mind you, the permissions are the same now as when PowerMail kept falling over, but I'm not complaining. A word of advice for anybody else who finds themselves with an OSX 10.3 update disk set, i.e. where the first disk is labelled "Upgrade" and expects to be used on a previous Jaguar install. It won't allow you to archive install or do any kind of update on a newer version of the OS (10.3.3) and complains that the disk contains a newer version. You have to boot from the original Jaguar installation CD, archive install from that and then use the 10.3 update. Found that out after the 10.3 installer took one look at my 10.3.3 disk and said "no way" - the Apple support site explained what I needed to do. Jeesh! Talk about long-winded....it took about 5 hours to do the whole lot, including downloading that hefty 10.3.3 update. Takes me back to my first Mac, a B&W in 1999 - 15 minutes to take it out of the box, 20 minutes to install MacOS 8.6, 2 minutes to get on the web :-) Neil
