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A script to reset file permissions
Authored by: McGuire on Feb 19, '02 08:35:57AM

> [Editor's note: Just for the record, Apple does not recommend running
> an older-version system CD against a newer installed version; their
> current advice is that you must reformat and reinstall, which is not
> really a good choice for many people!]

From experience I can tell you this is NOT the case. Because I spend quite a bit of the time out on the bleeding edge of software I have on more than one occasion had to reinstall OS X because I had messed up. You do NOT have to reformat. I just reinstalled from the OS X 10.1 disk and then went to software updates to get all the patches. It has worked EVERY time and I have never lost any data and never had to reformat.

Michael, :-)



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