[mac4theblind] Re: Question on Mac OSX v7.3 changing before taking the plunge?

  • From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:28:27 -0500

a combined update is redundant if you are keeping current.

On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

I always grab en combined updates. that has every update since 10.7. I run that 
all the time and it works fine. no issues.
On Feb 7, 2012, at 3:12 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:

> the day it came out.
> 
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
> 
> When did you update then?
> On 7 Feb 2012, at 21:38, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> 
>> all I can tell you about this is that I updated without the combined and 
>> it's fine.
>> 
>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, I just want to start off with that I downloaded the update on 
>> Saturday and as of that day I have no problems. It has even fixed a couple 
>> of websites that I go to with VO. 
>> 
>> Ok now for the question. In short nothing is wrong but am curious and I have 
>> a theory but let me 1st explain. When the update came out on a Wednesday I 
>> didn't download it as it was late in the evening and also I didn't want to 
>> be the 1st to encounter problems. The file size was 736MB which I thought 
>> was big but you haven't seen nothing yet! So I left it as I have college for 
>> the next two days and did the update on the Saturday gone. Now here's the 
>> question at last. 
>> When I did the update again, I noticed after the version number, it had the 
>> word "combined". and the file size went up to a whopping 1.34GB. 
>> My theory is that between the time of the update coming out and me then 
>> doing the update a few days later, there were some issues for users posted 
>> on macrumors.com. So my educated guess that during that time they addressed 
>> the issues and for those who haven't already done the update, it was 
>> extended and was a bigger file size at that. Also If I had done the update, 
>> on the day it was released, between that day and Saturday were there any 
>> "mini" updates that finally link it up the word "Combined". 
>> 
>> I am thinking some if not most of you might really care about this but since 
>> its my 1st update I've done on a Mac is this a common thing that happens. 
>> No problems which is good just curiosity! 
>> 
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