I have this thing about me where if something goes wrong I have to fix it. Not like eventually. I mean right then. So when something goes bad with the computer it is really bad. I will (and have) plant my self for hours till I figure it out.

After three hours I have to give up on todays problem. I know what it is. I just can’t fix it. I did however figure out a workaround and got the driver I needed installed. So hopefully I can rest. I have a very early day tomorrow. But for the sake of venting lemmee ‘splain this to you. Hopefully I can be clear and junk…

It seems that I can no longer download applications from a disk image. When I try to, first they don’t look right. You know how on a Mac everything looks a certain way? Well they download looking like little pages instead of the usual see through open box looking icon. Then there is an error message when Stuffit tries to open it: The destination folder is on a locked volume. So here’s the thing. I can boot into the last version of OSX on my external hard drive (10.4.8) and all works as expected. So I assume that the latest download messed up my permissions. Or I screwed something up. All I have downloaded lately are small files that have none of the disk image stuff going on. Peppers and widgets and such. I have no idea exactly *when* this started.

Now what do I do? I want a better fix than restoring the whole computer from the back-up OR starting over from the instal disks. Anyone on a Mac heard of or noticed this??

UPDATE: I fixed it! It seems there was a little app in the Utilities folder called Installer that went missing somewhere between there and here. Totally odd. I haven’t deleted ANYTHING. Anyhoo, all is good now. Phew!

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