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It is absolutely essential to repair permissions before and after you run any update that uses Apple’s installer application!
Any installer that asks you for your password needs to do so, because it has to write to files or folders that are usually not available to users other than administrator or root. In order to do so the permissions have to be exactly as expected by the installer application, otherwise it cannot finish the installation and may even damage your system.
There are certain files whose permissions get more easily changed than others. This is the reason why some installations are immune to this sort of problems and others are very sensible – depending on which files and folders get changed. You can tell by the number of trouble-reports on [the Apple] discussion board.
Permissions can get broken by installations of third-party applications that use Apple’s installer app. This did happen e.g. with Norton Antivirus 9.0.0, LimeWire and many others. If people use their OS 9 Classic folder to boot into OS 9 natively (e.g. to install required firmware upgrades) they also have a high probability of permissions being changed.
Furthermore there are many users who did simple upgrades since 10.0. 10.0 and 10.1 are known to do weird things to permissions.
So you might not need to repair permissions if you:
1. Never installed an application that asked for your password
2. Never did a simple upgrade
3. Never booted into OS 9 natively from the same system folder that you use as Classic.
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The above is from this thread (CLICK HERE) <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@@.6890d19d> at the Apple boards.
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For more tips on routine maintenance, CLICK HERE <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@@.6890d19d>.
Any installer that asks you for your password needs to do so, because it has to write to files or folders that are usually not available to users other than administrator or root. In order to do so the permissions have to be exactly as expected by the installer application, otherwise it cannot finish the installation and may even damage your system.
There are certain files whose permissions get more easily changed than others. This is the reason why some installations are immune to this sort of problems and others are very sensible – depending on which files and folders get changed. You can tell by the number of trouble-reports on [the Apple] discussion board.
Permissions can get broken by installations of third-party applications that use Apple’s installer app. This did happen e.g. with Norton Antivirus 9.0.0, LimeWire and many others. If people use their OS 9 Classic folder to boot into OS 9 natively (e.g. to install required firmware upgrades) they also have a high probability of permissions being changed.
Furthermore there are many users who did simple upgrades since 10.0. 10.0 and 10.1 are known to do weird things to permissions.
So you might not need to repair permissions if you:
1. Never installed an application that asked for your password
2. Never did a simple upgrade
3. Never booted into OS 9 natively from the same system folder that you use as Classic.
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The above is from this thread (CLICK HERE) <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@@.6890d19d> at the Apple boards.
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For more tips on routine maintenance, CLICK HERE <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@@.6890d19d>.
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