I don't remember, esther published a long missive on this a while ago but it seems important enough that folk are doing the update by hand when they see the warning that it could not be repaired.
On May 13, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Marty Rimpau wrote: Hi David, what is a suid file? On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:42:11 -0400, David Poehlman wrote: Hi Marti, It's not necessary to delete the history but it does not hurt. It is always a good idea to run repair permision after an update but I did not have a sluggishness issue on either of my two systems after updating the os or safari. Here is a caution though. when you run permission repair, if you get a warning about a suid file, it is recommended that you get the combined update from the apple web site and install it to correct this issue. I have not seen a problem related to not doing it but it is difficult to know what might be affected by it so any sluggishness after updating and running permission repair or freezing or stuttering or apps being strange could be related and if you rule that out and the issues still exist or issues crop up if there are none to begin with, it is one less thing to deal with when troubleshooting. Permission repair should be run a second time and the history should be shorter. I always clear the history out of habit from my windows days when things piled up and I naturally just did away with them if they were unnecessary. HTH! On May 13, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Marty Rimpau wrote: Hi all, just wondering, does repair permissions need the history in order to do its' repair effectively? I ask, because, I would always delete history after repair permissions was complete, on the theory that all the things it found before, I would have to wade through to get to the repairing permissions part of the table, which I didn't want to do, but when voice over was sluggish, when I finished the update last night, I ran repair permissions, but this time, when the repair disk disk was no more dimned, I just quit the repair permissions utility, so just wondering, if it needs the history to be there to know what to repair, or is the history, just the table of the problems that were found, practically none of which, I understand, but I did get the 10.7 and the safari 4 public beta yesterday. Marty
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