[X Newbies] Problems Installing Apps

[Chris Walker]

On 1/4/04 Kirk McElhearn wrote: 

>Are you saying, however, that sometimes you don't get a
>password request at all? That's not normal.
That is what I'm saying and it struck me as unusual.

>I'd suggest you repair permissions. Open Disk Utility (in your Utilities
>folder), click your drive in the left column, click the First Aid tab, then
>click the Repair Permissions button. Don't be surprised if it corrects lots
>of files.
Thanks I'll give it a go but I do use Cocktail on a regular basis to do
cron jobs.

chris