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Repairs and Receipts
Authored by: bluehz on Jan 21, '03 08:01:17AM

If I am not mistaken - doesn't RepairPermissions rely on Receipts in the /Library(s)/Receipts dir?

The reason I as is that I have a seperate HD assigned as my /Applications partition. All works well, but occasionally when doing an install - the installer will get confused about whats going on and create a new empty /Applications/Library dir and then deposit its appropriate reciept inside. No biggie really and I have been trying to remember to move the odd Receipt into the proper /Library/Receipt dir - but on occasion I have just deleted the Receipt. Consequently my Receipts dir may not be as up to date as my actual installations are. Is this a problem, and if so is there a way I can reinstall just the missing receipts?



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Repairs and Receipts
Authored by: mahakali on Jan 21, '03 04:48:49PM

Yes, it uses the receipts. Software update also uses these receipts to update softwares. I'm not sure about 3rd party apps, but you better keep apple applications & system receipts.



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