Idiot absent-mindedly installs 10.6.3
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From: Ian Piper on 6 Apr 2010 09:14 On 2010-04-06 13:50:19 +0100, real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Knowing full well that it would break an essential software tool, a >>> nit-wit I work with managed to install Mac OS X 10.6.3 without thinking. >>> >>> Is it possible to revert to 10.6.2 somehow? >> >> Restore from time machine. I have faith in that since I did it >> yesterday, being an idiot who updated to 10.6.3 > > That would have worked at home, but not at work. > > Anyway, you just had bad luck, not actual idiocy. > > I did notice that both 10.6.3 installations I did failed to work > properly after the first restart (applciations wouldn't launch, and so > on), but were OK subsequently. > > Daniele What's the problem with 10.6.3? It seems to be OK on the one machine I've installed it on so far. Ian. -- Ian Piper Author of "Learn Xcode Tools for Mac OS X and iPhone Development", Apress, December 2009 Learn more here: http://learnxcodebook.com/� --�
From: Woody on 6 Apr 2010 09:28 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Knowing full well that it would break an essential software tool, a > > > nit-wit I work with managed to install Mac OS X 10.6.3 without thinking. > > > > > > Is it possible to revert to 10.6.2 somehow? > > > > Restore from time machine. I have faith in that since I did it > > yesterday, being an idiot who updated to 10.6.3 > > That would have worked at home, but not at work. > > Anyway, you just had bad luck, not actual idiocy. > > I did notice that both 10.6.3 installations I did failed to work > properly after the first restart (applciations wouldn't launch, and so > on), but were OK subsequently. I noticed actually that when I did the time machine restore, it gave me a list of backups and dates to restore, and the top one said 10.6.3, so i guess that means that it must have at least restarted in 10.6.3, had enough time to do a backup and then fail. -- Woody
From: Woody on 6 Apr 2010 09:45
Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-06 13:50:19 +0100, > real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) said: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> Knowing full well that it would break an essential software tool, a > >>> nit-wit I work with managed to install Mac OS X 10.6.3 without thinking. > >>> > >>> Is it possible to revert to 10.6.2 somehow? > >> > >> Restore from time machine. I have faith in that since I did it > >> yesterday, being an idiot who updated to 10.6.3 > > > > That would have worked at home, but not at work. > > > > Anyway, you just had bad luck, not actual idiocy. > > > > I did notice that both 10.6.3 installations I did failed to work > > properly after the first restart (applciations wouldn't launch, and so > > on), but were OK subsequently. > > > > Daniele > > What's the problem with 10.6.3? It seems to be OK on the one machine > I've installed it on so far. It was ok on my macbook pro. I will remember to back up sabs macbook before I update it! -- Woody |