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Originally Posted by iGuy
You say run Disk Utility beforehand, but I was advised to always run DU afterwards, which I do. Am I wasting mine (& my Mac's) time in doing this straight away after installing new software?
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To answer your question you need to first understand the purpose of running "Repair Disk Permissions" from within Disk Utility.
Since OS X is an Unix based operating system, permissions of files are very important, but sometimes; for whatever reasons, these file and folder permissions are messed up by either Apple or 3rd party applications; it is often the latter.
Therefore ensuring the permissions are as expected by the OS is the best thing to do before allowing an OS update to update its files. The less variables you offer to the update process the happier you will be. Trust me.
Keep in mind that sometimes the issues, resulting from bad update process, do not manifest themselves until months after the initial execution of the update, due to usage patterns. In some cases, because of this usage patterns the problems are not apparent until things get really messed up.
This is all reasons why the procedures I had outlined are the
recommended steps for applying any OS X updates on the Mac.
Of course, there are no harm in running "Repair Disk Permissions" after an OS update, but you need to always make sure you're using the same version of Disk Utility that came with the OS you're running.
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Originally Posted by dale1v
 If you are the sole user of your laptop, you should already be adminsitrator? |
You should never use your Mac from a user account with "Admin" rights. See my reply to Mikerlx below.
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Originally Posted by mikerlx
How do I become the Administrator without having to reinstall OSX Leopard?
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Why do you want to be in the Administrator of your Mac? You should never use your Mac on a regular bases from an account with full "Administrator" rights.
If you always use your Mac from the user with "Standard" rights, then if your Mac is ever hacked the hacker will only have the same rights as that user. On the other hand if you are using your Mac from a user with "Admin" rights, the hacker will have full access to your Mac; there is also "root" users, but I will not get into that.
This is why I always set up my Macs and anyone else I helped, with at least 2 user accounts. One with full "Admin" rights, that is usually the first account created when setting up a new Mac, and the second with "Standard" user rights.
If you ever want to login as the Administrator, you just have to choose "Log Out XXXX..." from the Apple menu and relogin with as the user with Admin rights. Alternatively, if you have "Enable fast user switching" on, you can switch user from the User menu at the top right side of the menu bar.
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