HELP! I deleted my /Library/Receipts Folder!

[lookatthosemoos]

Hi Guys (and Gals)

What would be the repercussions / how could I possibly remedy if I managed to delete my /Library/Receipts folder. While sudo-ing to remove a sub-directory in the folder, I managed to perform a:

su rm -rf /Library/Receipts

I know receipts are used for updating software (to check for current version). I'm thinking I might just have to do an entire re-install. Thoughts?

 

[Eidorian]

*face palm*

Please be a little more cautious when sudoing.

You're not going to be able to repair permissions since the package receipts store the that information.

 

[yippy]

Chances are right now if you do a software update, it will say you need all of your updates over again.

I don't think it will hurt to re-install them (just writing files over with the same file most likely) and if that works it would put the receipt back. But you would have to do this for any software that put a receipt their before you would be able to repair permissions correctly.

 

[lookatthosemoos]

Yeah, I was being a bit hasty. Thanks. I'll see how that works.