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BEWARE! BAD INSTALLER HOSES CRITICAL SYSTEM LIBRARY

Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: summerstormpictures Monday, July 27 2009 @ 02:17 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

AFTER INSTALLING THIS VERSION OF BOXEE, I WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON MY HARD DRIVE FOR LEOPARD 10.5.7! THIS BOXEE INSTALLER DELETES THE CONTENTS OF THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER AND LEAVES ONLY THE BOXEE PACKAGE RECEIPT. THE ONLY WAY I WAS ABLE TO RESTORE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY WAS TO COPY THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB/ FOLDER OVER FROM ANOTHER MAC, SET PERMISSIONS CORRECTLY TO ROOT-ADMIN AND THE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY RETURNED. THIS IS NOT THE PROPER WAY TO DO THIS, HOWEVER, BUT CONSIDERING THAT A PRE-SNOW LEOPARD 10.5.8 UPDATE IS PROBABLY COMING AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, THIS WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW. THIS IS A CRITICAL THING. I VERIFIED IT BY RUNNING IT ON THE OTHER MAC, BUT BACKING UP THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER FIRST, WATCHING IT GET HOSED AND THEN MOVING MY BACKED UP CONTENTS BACK.

System Info:MAC OS X LEOPARD 10.5.7 RUNNING ON A MACBOOK PRO 17-INCH MID-2008.