I've successfully installed 10.4.3 and am happy with the increase in speed and have no gripes other than the occasional speedup of fans when opening Safari or Photoshop, etc. I do have a question regarding repairing permissions. I now find that when I do, the list of repairs is very long, and if I repair permissions immediately after having just done it, the list of repairs will be just as long. Just wondering what's going on here. In 10.4.2 the list was seldom over 2 or 3 items.
Actaully what your seeing is the ocassional repair of an item, here or there and 50 gazillion itterations of special permissions blah, blah, Blah are bing used to examin such and such files.
THis confuses the heck out of most people. I wish Apple would come up with one message Speicial permissions will be used to test various files at the very begining and then for get about anouncing each individual item. Just show defective files and whether they were fixed. only about 2.5 to 5% of Apple Users are UNIX propeller-heads and would even be interested in such.
I am a Mac user since the days of SE/30 and when I was working I worked on units as old as the FatMac. and systems as old as 4.x. I know what all those status messages mean.
To me its likened to this:
I am going to the store. I picked up my keys from side table, I opened the door I walked 50 paces to my car, I opened the door after unlocking it, I put key in ignition, I started the Car, I put car in gear after fastening seat belt. I mashed on gas . The car speeded up to 55 miles an hour. I grove approx 20 minutes to Jack-n-the Box. I slowed down and parked. I I put car in park and cut key off, I opened the door, I got out. I walked 1/4 mile to door and went in. I did my shoping.
Instead I took 20 minute drive to Jack-in-the Box to shop.
We don't need all the details how we got from point A to point b. We just need to see this needed repair, this was repaired. The permissions were okay.
I am seeing exactly the same thing. As previously noted, Apple does mention some specific instances of "special permissions" that can be safely ignored. However, they don't go so far as to say that ALL can be safely ignored. Since the 10.4.3 update, I now get 27 of these "special permissions" messages every time I run Repair Permissions (mostly relating to widgets and PHP, and one related to the Dock), plus one "special gid" message related to the Dock.
Supposing that everything is A-OK, I find all the messages annoying. I think they should either not include these, or else make a clear visual distinction between error messages and informational messages.
the "We are using special permissions..." messages are there because the permissions on certain files have changed since 10.4 originally came out (specifically, in this case, with the 10.4.3 update).
Disk Utility is simply informing you that one of the receipts on your computer specifies different permissions for a file than the way it was originally installed. This also happened in 10.3 when 10.3.3 came out, and we always got the message about special permissions being used for cd9660.util
No cause for alarm, it's simply Apple tightening up the ship...
I agree that these messages should be hidden, for no other reason than avoiding the deluge of questions posted here about it.
I guess my question should have been: if I've just repaired permissions, why, if I immediately repair permissions a second time, are all these same permissions needing to be repaired again?
the "We are using special permissions..." messages are there because the permissions on certain files have changed since 10.4 originally came out (specifically, in this case, with the 10.4.3 update).
Disk Utility is simply informing you that one of the receipts on your computer specifies different permissions for a file than the way it was originally installed. This also happened in 10.3 when 10.3.3 came out, and we always got the message about special permissions being used for cd9660.util
Jeff,
Thanks for the answer. I just didn't quite understand that from the previous messages. It would be nice if they could do something so that only what is actually repaired, is shown on the list.
Anyway, Thanks.
Rich
