m2cw – my 2 cents worth

as always john gruber gives an excellent opinion on Software Update Tips and Voodoo

his main steps and points:

1. wait at least one business day after the release of the update
2. run a full backup (if you don’t have an automated update process anyway)

personal note: when finished with the backup remove all external hard drives (if those are used for automated update processes you might want to keep them removed until your system is up and ok for a couple of days… – see step 6.)

3. log out. then log back in holding the “Shift” key
4. run the software update
5. restart
6. after working with your mac for a while without experiencing problems, run another full backup (or get your automated backup running again)

running Cocktail’s pilot (repair permissions, run cron scripts, prebind system and clean system, user and caches) is actually nothing but voodoo (it doesn’t really help, but it doesn’t really hurt either – in most cases)

excellent advice!

i have been doing most of this (including cocktail’s pilot step) anyway, but i have now a reference to go back to for every major update!

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