For those updating to iLife 5 - A friendly reminder

[DanSlagle]

The fun starts Tomarrow! iLife 5

- Finish up your old projects in iMovie
- Make a copy of iMovie
- If you INSIST on upgrading in the middle of a project, make a duplicate of the project
- Run cache Out X and check your permissions after you upgrade. Making sure to clean out system caches (it should ask to be rebooted)
- If you are having issues I will be keeping a running problem list here on the iMovie 5 (HD) fixes and issues list

[sirN]

Thanks for the info Dan. I have a question about permissions. I've heard that you should run it before and after downloading software. Since there are 2 choices - Check Permissions or Repair Permission, which one do you do or do you do both? I usually just Repair permissions 'cause I assume it also checks them while repairing them. Am I close on this?

[DanSlagle]

I usually just Repair permissions 'cause I assume it also checks them while repairing them. Am I close on this?

Exactly! Actually I just have a cron job to run a permissions fix EVERYDAY at 5 in the morning. So I rarely do it manually. If interested. Open up a terminal.
- type "sudo crontab -e"
- type "i" for insert
- paste this

# Root Crontab
# field allowed values
# ----- --------------
# minute 0-59
# hour 0-23
# day of month 1-31
# month 1-12 (or names, see below)
# day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
#
# Repair File Permissions
00 05 * * * /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /

- hit ESC
- hit Shift-zz

After that it will run everyday at five and it you want to run it from the command line:
sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /

[DanSlagle]

The iMovie 5 issues list is growing

[sjk]

I just have a cron job to run a permissions fix EVERYDAY at 5 in the morning

For modifying crontab files I recommend using the CronniX GUI.

An alternative I prefer is adding commands to /etc/daily.local, which is invoked from /etc/daily when that's run with "periodic daily" by cron at 3:15 (by default; see /etc/crontab):

#
# repair disk permissions
#
echo ""
echo "Repairing disk permissions:"
/usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /
echo ""

And output will be appended to /var/log/daily.out, like:

Repairing disk permissions:
Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/File
systems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util.  New permissions are 33261
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
Verify/repair finished permissions on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD

You can also create weekly.local and monthly.local command files in /etc for their corresponding weekly and monthly scripts.