Maybe the permissions are incorrectly reported as incorrect? :)

I wouldn't bother too much about permissions (unless they really are causing an issue). The permission repair ”hysteria” seems to come from the early days of Mac OS X when there *where* a lot of issues with permissions after installations. Nowadays I don't care about them. Haven't ”repaired” any permissions for two years on the computer I'm typing this from and I don't suffer from any permission problems as far as I can tell.

There ”were” not ”where”.

Wish the posts could be edited. I always make some mistake that I don't see until I've submitted the post.

There;s no need to worry about that. It's only saying the permissions are different than expected. This is installed by Apple, so the receipt is correct.

Thats no reason to give it a half star. Does the Java update not function correctly? It does, and that's what to rate it on.

I never repair permissions anymore unless I have a problem, which is hardly ever.

The reason I gave it such a low rating is because it is Apple's responsibility to make is so that their users don't have to wonder (or spend a ridiculous amount of time checking to see if all of them are 'safe' irreparable permissions).

If you bought a car, and though it got you back and forth to work, it made odd noises or gave you some other indication that something was wrong... i.e. caused you to wonder whether something was wrong... this I'm sure would be unacceptable.

IF Apple had resolved this after a reasonable amount of time... no problem. But this has been going on for years.

Again... how would you like that if it was happening to your car and every time you took it in for a tuneup (i.e. upgrade/update) it often resulted in additional noises (or whatever) that you thought would be eventually resolved.

I've been using Apple since the mid-90s and overall love it. So... as with cars... if you own a Mercedes or Ferrari you expect more. I also expect more of Apple.

Daycare is probably referring to this alert on Filemakers site:

[quote]

Oracle has released Java 6 Update 26 for Windows which corrects the issue of the Admin Console not launching; for FileMaker Server/Server Advanced 10v2.

This issue still is unsolved for FileMaker Server/Server Advanced 9 (both Mac and Windows) and FileMaker Server/Server Advanced 10 for Mac; As soon as we are aware of any further information or updates from Oracle, this answer will be updated.
[end quote]

What's with the caps?

I would only say I would NEVER apply ANY update to a business critical development server on day one, hour one. All that gives you is the privilege of being the first to post "oops, shouldn't have done that!". At the very least to a complete mirror backup first. How much is a 1-2TB HD and how much is you time worth? If you should be thanking anyone it's yourself!

No one said I didn't have it backup it because I do. I ordered the machine with two identical hard drives to mirror the main drive with Time Machine. The problem is that a Java Update puts new files at the system level and at unknown locations. And Time Machine won't let you simply restore you "System" folder. The only way back is to do a full system restore via booting from the Install CD...and that take hours (currently 4 hours and counting). So, backup or not, Apple has wasted at least a half a day of my time.

time machine is only good for backing up your work files. i use silver keeper to make a bootable clone of my main drive. if the main drive fails or is compromised , i just boot into the clone and update personal files from time machine.