[X4U] 10.4.1 on various machines

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 27, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Roy van der Westhuizen wrote:

> A quick question relating to a problem already solved. Last weekend  
> I dl'd 10.4.1 to my PB 17 G4 1 Gig. I then installed it onto my  
> wife 17" iMac 1.6 G5. It would not install onto my secretaries 1.25  
> emac, so I dl'd a version directly onto her machine. Mail worked  
> fine on my machine and my secretaries, but not on my wife's iMac.  
> To cut a long story short I dl'd another version of 10.4.1 from the  
> Apple site, not Software update, directly onto her machine, and  
> mail now works properly. On the Apple site it said one should dl  
> from there if you want to install the update on multiple machines.  
> My question, do the updates differ for various machines if using  
> Software update and is it always advisable to dl directly to each  
> machine, or did Mail somehow become corrupt in transferring 10.4.1  
> from the PB G4 to the imac G5?

Yes, the updates are different - I saw that on my 4 Macs at home -  
the update size for my iBook was something like 28 MB, but for my old  
iMac it was only about 18MB. So do download either from Software  
Update to each machine, or download the "complete" updater from the  
Apple site.


Kirk

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