On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 14:45 US/Central, Gnarlodious wrote: > Entity mike spoke thus: >> here's the list of what I do -- >> run the following command in the terminal (lose the '#' if you cut & >> paste): >> # sudo update_prebinding -root / -force > AARRGGHH!! > Don't do this! I lost all my default file-opening applications. I can't > imagine someone doing this as "routine maintenance". OOP ACK! It works fine for me. It's basically the same thing as the "optimization" that happens when you install a new application, but system-wide as opposed to application-wide. As far as your losing all of your default file-open prefs -- I wish I could do that. :-) Mike