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ok since i got my new imac i have had to reinstall and/or reinitialise FOUR times hmmm => and thus the words "kernel panic" no longer hold ph34r for me

here is my query: SOFTWARE UPDATE right? why do i not have to UPDATE a second time? how do the updates magically transfer themselves to my reinstalled system w/o my downloading them a second (3rd/4th/etc) time?

― mark s, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or DO they? perhaps i download em, reinstall and lose em => but i have been checked off by the bots at SOFTWARE UPDATE, so they do not bother to readvise me of software i am now definitely missing?

― mark s, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my parents' imac and ibook constantly freeze. i fear its the newly installed ASDL machine. grrrr. maybe your settings have automatic updates? could be. (ours don't.)

― nathalie, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well my nice new adsl machine is sold with a mac icon on the box and praised as mac friendly, indeed designed FOR MACS, all across the interweb (including its own sites), but the apple tech guy who talked me thru my reinstall this morning said that the software responsible for what just happened was POISON TO MACS and must not be used...

― mark s, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What software mark?

There are no magic/automatic updates. I think the software update system is flawed in that updates are only advertised as available for a month or two. Also if you reinstall an older version of something, Software Update might still have the receipt for the update that is no longer there. Look in /Library/Receipts/ and delete everything that might not still be installed.

You can (and probably should) download the updates you had from the Apple website. The 10.1.5 updater should include everything current.

― Graham, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this is what i needed to know

actually shortly after i posted this thread, the 10.1.5 update reappeared in the update thing, it wasn't there straight away

it took 3.5 hours to download, and crashed the system so i had to use disk repair, so yeah, i am not v.happy w. it

― mark s, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are no magic/automatic updates. > The comp can be set so it checks for updates automatically. And if there is one, it downloads it. It's switched off on my comps.

― nathalie, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this sounds horribly irritating.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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