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Not Exactly Apple's Solution
Authored by: Rev. Al on Jul 08, '04 03:29:44PM
Apple's advice, located here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25788 Note that Apple does not advise you to delete the receipt package, but merely move it to the desktop (or wherever) temporarily, replacing it afterwards. You can replace the receipt package before the required reboot. I've done this on a few machines with no errors. I'm not sure if keeping the old receipt package is useful or not, but Apple seems to think so.

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Receipt Usefulness
Authored by: jbruner on Jul 08, '04 05:35:31PM

I believe that the receipt packages are used when Repair Permissions is invoked from Disk Util, no?



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Receipt Usefulness
Authored by: xcgr on Jul 09, '04 02:13:22AM

That's correct. Deleting receipts is almost always a Bad Idea(tm).



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