Let me just say this long, extremely shameful, Apple confession:
• "Repair Permissions" used to not be voodoo, shamefully enough. Even these days, for reasons I have yet to understand, sometimes the permissions on the folder into which Software Update downloads stuff get pooched, and therefore Software Update fails to download updates. Sometimes it does download updates and decide they cannot be checksum-verified.
I am pretty sure that this problem is all fixed these days, but I've said that before.
Also: • "Verify Disk" should always be voodoo in 10.4 or later. You should never see any errors whatsoever. But if you do see an error, it means the following:
SHUTDOWN NOW, START UP FROM DIFFERENT DRIVE, and RECOVER YOUR DATA IMMEDIATELY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL READING THIS? GIT!
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• "Repair Permissions" used to not be voodoo, shamefully enough. Even these days, for reasons I have yet to understand, sometimes the permissions on the folder into which Software Update downloads stuff get pooched, and therefore Software Update fails to download updates. Sometimes it does download updates and decide they cannot be checksum-verified.
I am pretty sure that this problem is all fixed these days, but I've said that before.
Also:
• "Verify Disk" should always be voodoo in 10.4 or later. You should never see any errors whatsoever. But if you do see an error, it means the following:
SHUTDOWN NOW, START UP FROM DIFFERENT DRIVE, and RECOVER YOUR DATA IMMEDIATELY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL READING THIS? GIT!