[Ti] 10.4.3

[John Griffin]

DPSRIDP
1) D=Disk Repair
2) P=Permissions Repair
3) SR=Safe Reboot
4) I=Install update
5) D=Disk Repair
6) P=Permissions Repair

I go through this every time I update. I run Disk Repair from a  
different volume (TechTool eDisk in my case) and a Permissions Repair  
while I am still in Disk Utility. Then I reboot the computer in Safe  
Boot mode (holding down the Shift Key after the startup chimes). Then  
do the Install. Then hit the compulsory “Restart” button and go back  
into eDisk (or whatever separate volume that contains Disk Utility).  
Do another Disk Repair and Permissions Repair. Then I boot back into  
the main volume in regular mode.

Some people reboot into the Single User mode and invoke Applejack to  
do the Disk Repair, Preferences Repair, Permissions Repair and Cron  
Scripts all at once before and after installing the update.

I have had no problems until this most recent update when two of the  
new widgets (Flight Tracker and Phone Book) would not work at all and  
Stocks lost its icon and started sporting a generic widgets icon. Re- 
installing the Combo updater did not help. I just copied these  
widgets over from another volume that had an installation that had  
these widgets working properly and everything is A-OK again.

I don’t know what would have happened to your Mail.plist file during  
the update, but as you indicate, that’s what backups are for.

jg

On 7-Nov-05, at 6:38 PM, Mike Bigley wrote:

> I have done the 10.4.3 update on 2 computers and both of them lost  
> the settings for Mail.app; fortunately I had a back up, but has  
> anyone else experienced this or heard of it happening? I saw on  
> another list the recommendation of restarting your computer BEFORE  
> upgrading as many problems like this (that are not experienced  
> universally) can be related to things that get fixed by restarting  
> after long uptimes.