Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions
Date	2017-02-20 20:41 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-02-20, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> wrote:
> On 2/19/17 3:03 p, David Empson wrote:
>> Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
>>> Disk Utility. Verify/Repair disk permissions is gone. Or is it now part
>>> of FirstAid? Was it even necessary?
>>
>> Again, removed feature. Much of its reason to exist was to verify/repair
>> permissions of system files to correct cases where the user or third
>> party software or installer packages having interfered with something.
>>
>> Since El Capitan introduced System Integrity Protection, most of the
>> operating system cannot be modified by the user or by non-Apple
>> software, therefore most of the reason for verify/repair permissions has
>> been eliminated.
>>
>> The system still does an automatic verify/repair permissions as part of
>> software updates, and there is a lower level tool available via the
>> command line (or accessible through third party utilities) if you really
>> want to repair permissions.
>
> The question I have, David, is that time and again I have seen 
> _Apple's_own_ installers leave a permissions mess which must be cleaned 
> up by running Repair Permissions in Disk Utilities. In the past (yes, 
> growing distant today), I have fixed significant problems (apps not 
> launching, docs not opening, strange behavior, and other glitches) by 
> repairing permissions.
>
> So has Apple finally fixed its own installers and updaters so they get 
> the perms correct?

No such problems here in many years.

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Sierra Upgrade Questions Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2017-02-19 11:38 -0800
  Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-20 09:03 +1300
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions "Andre G. Isaak" <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2017-02-19 21:27 -0700
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 05:04 +0000
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2017-02-19 21:15 -0800
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-20 15:28 -0500
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 20:41 +0000
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-21 16:33 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 17:04 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 00:04 +0000
            Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-23 14:45 -0500
              Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-23 15:01 -0500
      Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-20 16:02 -0500
        Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh> - 2017-02-21 16:33 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 17:04 -0500
          Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-22 00:05 +0000
  Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-19 15:10 -0500
    Re: Sierra Upgrade Questions Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2017-02-19 13:17 -0800

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