[Ham-Mac] "repairing permissions" is not necessarily good Mac hygiene

[harris ruben]

FYI, I'm running 10.3.9. Your "easier way" worked PERFECTLY!

Thanks for the input.

Perhaps Apple will fix this on the next iTunes patch.

n2ern

>
>There's an easier way.  Just drag the Icon for iTunes 6.0.2 (this is 
>the only version that produces this problem in the latest Tiger, OS 
>X 10.4.4.) out of the Applications folder and onto the desktop, 
>repair permissions, then return it to the Apps folder.
>
>That said, "repairing permissions" was a solution to a problem that 
>Apple developed back in the early days of OS X when folks hadn't yet 
>tumbled to the fact that booting a Mac into OS 9 without dismounting 
>its OS X volume first would likely result in OS 9 running rough-shod 
>over files belonging to OS X and damaging their permissions 
>settings, among other bad things.  The source of the problem was 
>that OS-9 was not designed to deal properly with Unix file 
>structures.
>
>Running your older applications within the Classic application 
>avoids this problem.  Think of Classic as "diapers for OS 9."
>
>For an enlightening review of this still somewhat controversial 
>subject, see "Exercises in Futility Part 2:  Repairing Permissions 
>is Useless," and the comments which it produced:
>
>   <http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php>
>
>Dick Rucker, KM4ML
>
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