On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, at 03:14PM, <email@hidden> wrote:
>No, I'm using QT 6.5.3 and I've now fixed the problem.
>
>It was indeed a permissions problem that apparently Disk Utility missed, and
>which I've fixed manually. I had only been granted read access and as such
>the file "QuickTime Preferences" in my home preferences was zero-length.
That's quite odd; that said, Disk Utility cannot fix *all* permissions issues as it cannot read a user's mind and know how they might have *wanted* things fixed. Permissions repair typically resets permissions for files where the functionality of the OS is at risk, but not where the user (or a bug, or another app) may have changed permissions for other reasons.
>I hope this issue makes it outside of this mailing list and into Apple's bug
>system and that Apple includes a fix in it's next security update for 10.2,
>particularly for the following aspects:
Since this isn't a security risk - and you haven't even established that it's a common problem - you're quite unlikely to get that fix on a version of the OS slated for no future updates except possibly security patches. Further, it's *you're* responsibility to file a bug report - talking about it on a mailing list will not help you get a bug addressed (but it will help you get short-term help!).
> - Obviously System Preferences didn't give me error when it couldn't
>write the prefs.
> - The error log didn't mention anything about an attempt to write a file
>being refused for lack of permissions.
> - Disk Utility missed this permissions error.
>
>
>The only plausible action I took that could have preciptated this problem was
>the changing of permissions of the Fonts folder so I could remove the Asian
>langauge fonts that pollute my fonts menu despite the fact I did not select
>these fonts during my installation (hint hint). However, it seems unlikely that
>fiddling with the contents of /System/Library/Fonts could affect
>~/Library/Preferences, and if indeed it was the cause, it points to a serious problem
>underlying the OS.
I don't think one thing necessarily proves the other; you may well have not done anything to cause this, but that doesn't mean there's a serious problem with the OS either. In fact, since you're the first person to mention this in my memory, and it doesn't affect any critical functionality of the OS, and there are many ways permissions may get changed on a file that is owned by you, I wouldn't consider it a serious problem - you've got a fix anyway!
You're welcome!
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