Run DiskWarrior and perform repairs if needed. Download the combo updater* and make sure it's the correct size (sometimes you get just a partial download).
Make a full clone backup of your startup drive. Here's my never-failed-yet method for system updates. They are more likely to cause problems (as the orginal posting showed) than to prevent them.
Wacom drivers for mac 10.5.8 update#
These mistaken beliefs are often accompanied by the beliefs that you should restart the Mac in Safe Boot mode before updating the OS, and that you should force a Safe Boot for the first restart after updating.Īpple does not recommend any of these mythological means of avoiding update problems. For reasons unknown, many users believe they should repair permissions immediately before, immediately after, and sometimes during (by intercepting the restart) system updates. This is yet another example of the misuse of repair permissions. I haven't tested this, as (being very honest here) I only ever consider repairing permissions on my system if I've got an issue that seems like it might be related to permissions.
Wacom drivers for mac 10.5.8 install#
Installing the update twice - without repairing permissions between - re-reads permissions from the files which, at that point, are available and the receipts are fixed.So basically, if you installed the combined updater and then repaired permissions, you need to install the combined updater twice, back to back, and then repair permissions will work properly. Obviously, the combo update may affect more files. Gerben describes the problem and the suggested solution: For files not installed yet, their permissions (and owner) are taken from nonexisting files during the update process and stored in the package Receipts (Base system). After a long exchange, user 'Gerben Wierda' seems to have figured out the cause and a solution. Other users, though, are seeing no such problems. It seems a number of files are coming up with absolutely no permissions. According to this thread in Apple Discussions, some users are noticing some odd entries in Disk Utility's Repair Permissions function after running the Combined Updater and then repairing permissions.