For some reason when you try to install the 10.8.5 combo update on a 10.8.4 MLPF system it says "javascript error" and won't do it, you have to use Pacifist to install it.
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[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac
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For some reason when you try to install the 10.8.5 combo update on a 10.8.4 MLPF system it says "javascript error" and won't do it, you have to use Pacifist to install it.
MLPostFactor disables the updates overriding the build number.
Just edit SystemVersion.plist in /System/Library/CoreServices
For example, If you have ML 10.8.4 and you want to update to 10.8.5 you just need to edit the file with the build number related to the system version (you can find build numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mountain_Lion#Release_history) that in this case is 12E55.
Then launch the Combo Update 10.8.5 installer, follow the instructions and wait, the Javascript error will not appear.
After a while an installation error will probably appear but it's not true, just reboot your Mac into Install partition, launch the MLPostFactor utility and patch the ML partition.
Reboot again into ML partition and everything will work smooth and fast!
But oh.. wait! About this Mac says that I still have 10.8.4.. WTF?
Nope! Just edit again SystemVersion.plist with the right build and system version number like this:
Save and you're done!
With this trick you'll enable all updates on your ML installation, but be careful! Apps updates (iTunes, Safari, Remote Control, Airport Utility, etc..) should not cause any problems, but major upgrades such as Security Updates can brake your installation because that updates often overwrites files that MLPostFactor patch.
The Security Update 2013-004 for example breaks your system but don't panic! Just install it from App Store, reboot the Mac into the Install partition and repatch with MLPostFactor, then edit again the SystemVersion.plist as I explained before.
Another trick that'll be useful for some users, on my iMac 5,1 Late 2006 the Bluetooth section on System Preferences crashes.
Extract the file and overwrite the Bluetooth.prefPane version available in the attachments (that comes from Lion) in your /System/Library/PreferencePanes folder and.. problem solved!
Hope that this my first post will help someone, thanks to all MLPostFactor developers and to all who contributed!
Just edit SystemVersion.plist in /System/Library/CoreServices
Code:
<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
<string>yourbuildnumberhere</string>For example, If you have ML 10.8.4 and you want to update to 10.8.5 you just need to edit the file with the build number related to the system version (you can find build numbers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mountain_Lion#Release_history) that in this case is 12E55.
Code:
<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
<string>12E55</string>Then launch the Combo Update 10.8.5 installer, follow the instructions and wait, the Javascript error will not appear.
After a while an installation error will probably appear but it's not true, just reboot your Mac into Install partition, launch the MLPostFactor utility and patch the ML partition.
Reboot again into ML partition and everything will work smooth and fast!
But oh.. wait! About this Mac says that I still have 10.8.4.. WTF?Nope! Just edit again SystemVersion.plist with the right build and system version number like this:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs$
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
<string>12F45</string>
<key>ProductCopyright</key>
<string>1983-2013 Apple Inc.</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>Mac OS X</string>
<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>
<string>10.8.5</string>
<key>ProductVersion</key>
<string>10.8.5</string>
</dict>
</plist>Save and you're done!
With this trick you'll enable all updates on your ML installation, but be careful! Apps updates (iTunes, Safari, Remote Control, Airport Utility, etc..) should not cause any problems, but major upgrades such as Security Updates can brake your installation because that updates often overwrites files that MLPostFactor patch.
The Security Update 2013-004 for example breaks your system but don't panic! Just install it from App Store, reboot the Mac into the Install partition and repatch with MLPostFactor, then edit again the SystemVersion.plist as I explained before.
Another trick that'll be useful for some users, on my iMac 5,1 Late 2006 the Bluetooth section on System Preferences crashes.
Extract the file and overwrite the Bluetooth.prefPane version available in the attachments (that comes from Lion) in your /System/Library/PreferencePanes folder and.. problem solved!
Hope that this my first post will help someone, thanks to all MLPostFactor developers and to all who contributed!
Firstly, thanks a lot for the BT prefpane. Works like a charm now (hadn't noticed before that it kills the settings app though, haha).Save and you're done!
With this trick you'll enable all updates on your ML installation, but be careful! Apps updates (iTunes, Safari, Remote Control, Airport Utility, etc..) should not cause any problems, but major upgrades such as Security Updates can brake your installation because that updates often overwrites files that MLPostFactor patch.
The Security Update 2013-004 for example breaks your system but don't panic! Just install it from App Store, reboot the Mac into the Install partition and repatch with MLPostFactor, then edit again the SystemVersion.plist as I explained before.
But since you're also having an iMac from 2006, how are your experiences with Safari 6.2 and the latest security update 2004-005 1.0?
Because as I mentioned here, my dad's iMac kept crashing (especially Safari) all the time after installing the updates from the App Store. I haven't found out yet whether it's due to Safari 6.2 or the security update (or both together?!).
After my dad told me the first time that things must have gone wrong, I simply re-installed ML from the EFI Boot partition which I created for MLPF (that's at least a quick and easy solution just in case the system is broken, because all of your personal data keep untouched, but the system becomes completely overwritten, which removes all of the updates and you can start from scratch).
BUT:
After that, I tried to install all of the updates except the security update 2014-005. Unfortunately, the computer kept crashing. It still was kinda... unstable. And that made me wonder, because I thought updating Safari could never cause any system crashes, since it's not part of the system... it must be the security update's fault. That's what I thought...
And now, at the third try, I have installed every update except Safari 6.2.
So let's see how it's going to work this time... but I'm still wondering whether it's just Safari 6.2 or both 6.2 + security 2014-005.
So since your iMac is from 2006 as well:
Haven't you experienced these problems with one of the latest updates?
System still works fine after installing all available updates but that I have that ****** faulty ATI Radeon X1600, in fact sometimes (mostly when GPU reaches high temperatures) artifacts appears on the screen, but this problem appears even on Lion and it can be fixed increasing fan RPMs in order to cool down the card.. so nothing important.
It's merely impossible that it's Safari's fault, because as you said it's only an app and it does not modify any system file.
And even for the Security Update, patching again the ML partition via 'EFI Boot' and MLPostFactor utility solves every problem.
My advice is to delete everything with format using Disk Utility (Windows style yeah
) of the both 'Install' and 'ML' partitions, and reinstallation, just to be sure that every file is okay.Before doing this, make sure that you're using the latest version of MLPostFactor which is the 0.3 (you can find it here http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/MLPostFactor.shtml)
Then follow the instructions as always and, after first set-up, install EVERY update following my tricks.
Do not move any file or install any third-party app.
Keep in mind that about major system updates (10.8.1, 10.8.2, etc..) I recommended to install them downloading Combo Updates from Apple website and not by App Store.
Now check if ML in general and Safari works well, if yes maybe some app or Safari extension is not compatible with this version the OS so pay attention to any new app and make sure that are all updated to the latest available version.
Okay after I'd been thinking everything's fine, the iMac suddenly had a kernel panic yesterday in the evening and even Safari crashed today. Even though it's still Safari 6.0.2, as I mentioned before... so you're absolutely right, it's not about Safari 6.2 and the latest security update, indeed there must be something wrong with the system.
From tomorrow on, I'll be deleting everything so I can start from scratch.
Currently downloading MLPF again (even though I'm pretty sure I already had the latest MLPF, but you never know).
Complete restore -> install updates -> install 3rd party apps + personal data. Right?
But just to be sure I understand you correctly:
Did you really mean that I should install 10.8.0 first, so I can combo-update the system up to 10.8.5? Because I already have the official 10.8.5 installer, which I used the last time as well.
Thanks for your great help!
I hope I don't have to go back to Lion...
From tomorrow on, I'll be deleting everything so I can start from scratch.
Currently downloading MLPF again (even though I'm pretty sure I already had the latest MLPF, but you never know).
Complete restore -> install updates -> install 3rd party apps + personal data. Right?
But just to be sure I understand you correctly:
Did you really mean that I should install 10.8.0 first, so I can combo-update the system up to 10.8.5? Because I already have the official 10.8.5 installer, which I used the last time as well.
Thanks for your great help!
I hope I don't have to go back to Lion...
[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac
Good, that's what I was thinking.
Edit: Alright, I've done everything as recommended and the iMac is ready to go. Wish me luck, I don't want to go back to Lion.
Good, that's what I was thinking.
Edit: Alright, I've done everything as recommended and the iMac is ready to go. Wish me luck, I don't want to go back to Lion.
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REALLY need some help
Hey guys, hope you can help me with this one, cause I ran outta solutions already! I installed 10.8.4 on my MacPro 2,1 following this guide, and everything worked out ok, in the installation process I didn't get the "Installation Complete" message, just got stuck onto a gray screen, but I rebooted and installed the ML patch and ML loaded up. Everything worked fine for two days and the it crashed. So I started using Snow Leopard on another partition I had here, so I could format the ML partition and pretty much forget the process, but now I'm only being able to load SL in Safe Boot, when I try to load normally I get stuck on a Black screen, and any of the installers I have go through, not from a flash drive, not only the SL installer I have in a different partition ready to boot, it just won't load, I set the boot drive, get the Apple logo, and then I get stuck on a Gray screen, it's like my Mac is dead. I've already tried everything from cleaning PRAM to that Black Screen hack, but I don't know hot to solve this. I think there's something with the EFI from the ML installation that now makes any other installer to work or boot properly. PLEASE HELP ME guys, this is my first post here, and the deep need made me come to you, this is my work computer and I'm unable to work for a week already! Thank you very much!
Hey guys, hope you can help me with this one, cause I ran outta solutions already! I installed 10.8.4 on my MacPro 2,1 following this guide, and everything worked out ok, in the installation process I didn't get the "Installation Complete" message, just got stuck onto a gray screen, but I rebooted and installed the ML patch and ML loaded up. Everything worked fine for two days and the it crashed. So I started using Snow Leopard on another partition I had here, so I could format the ML partition and pretty much forget the process, but now I'm only being able to load SL in Safe Boot, when I try to load normally I get stuck on a Black screen, and any of the installers I have go through, not from a flash drive, not only the SL installer I have in a different partition ready to boot, it just won't load, I set the boot drive, get the Apple logo, and then I get stuck on a Gray screen, it's like my Mac is dead. I've already tried everything from cleaning PRAM to that Black Screen hack, but I don't know hot to solve this. I think there's something with the EFI from the ML installation that now makes any other installer to work or boot properly. PLEASE HELP ME guys, this is my first post here, and the deep need made me come to you, this is my work computer and I'm unable to work for a week already! Thank you very much!
@DiegoM4Music
If it is a MacPro2,1 - why not installing Yosemite?
To the issues:
Run the Apple Hardware Test to be sure your Mac is ok.
If the AHT is ok, reset your Mac completely, delete the internal drive as described below so that the entire old stuff which can cause issues has been wiped out.
Boot a external OS X, but do not follow the install process. Go simply into the menu bar and start the Terminal.
Use the Terminal command 'dd' to delete the first sectors of the internal drive. CAUTION: the data on the drive will be overwritten and the 'dd' command is a little bit dangerous - if you use the wrong settings, it can overwrite the data on the wrong disk.
List your drives in Terminal with: diskutil list
Unmount the Disk (i.e. disk1): diskutil unmountdisk disk1
To write 100 MB (zeros) to the first sectors of the internal drive (i.e. disk1):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1 bs=1024k count=100
If this is done, close Terminal and open Disk Utility and create (a) new Partition(s) with GUID and 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' filesystem and try to install OS X again.
If it is a MacPro2,1 - why not installing Yosemite?
To the issues:
Run the Apple Hardware Test to be sure your Mac is ok.
If the AHT is ok, reset your Mac completely, delete the internal drive as described below so that the entire old stuff which can cause issues has been wiped out.
Boot a external OS X, but do not follow the install process. Go simply into the menu bar and start the Terminal.
Use the Terminal command 'dd' to delete the first sectors of the internal drive. CAUTION: the data on the drive will be overwritten and the 'dd' command is a little bit dangerous - if you use the wrong settings, it can overwrite the data on the wrong disk.
List your drives in Terminal with: diskutil list
Unmount the Disk (i.e. disk1): diskutil unmountdisk disk1
To write 100 MB (zeros) to the first sectors of the internal drive (i.e. disk1):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1 bs=1024k count=100
If this is done, close Terminal and open Disk Utility and create (a) new Partition(s) with GUID and 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' filesystem and try to install OS X again.
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Thank you for such a detailed response. On this note: I'm not being able to get the initial setup on the Install disc, so I could access the terminal. Would this work on single user mode? That's the only way I'm getting access to the terminal, it's either this or in safe mode.
About trying Yosemite, I didn't know this would be an option, and also I'm using the stock GPU which is the nVidia 7300 GT, and I don't think it's gonna fly, but I'll be reading and in even could upgrade mine.
Thanks again, I'll be trying it all right away and let you know the result!
Normally in Post #1 on Page 1 of this Thread. But it's temporarily down until the new MacPostFactor is released. See also www.osxhackers.tk.
Hey, thank you very much, but i found www.osxhackers.tk rather hard to use, say ML Page hold the content for Yosemite patch.
The main thing that confuses me, is that, according to mlforall twitter and other sources, the MLPF v0.3 has been released. But i can't find online guide for it (only one that is build inside the mlpf app). And what most important, i just can't find a trusted link to download it.
Guys - do you know - is http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/MLPostFactor.shtml a place where i should download MLPF?
And, by the way, did anybody attempt to publish iOS apps, made in MLPF environment to the appstore? Do they drop you?
Thanks.
On My Mac Mini 2,1 running Mt Lion 10.8.5 (installed using MLPF), I was not able to get the signing certificate to work with Itunes Connect Developer area, but I did not try very hard because I was able to publish iOS apps using Mt Lion on VMware on my Windows 7 pc. It should work though with no problem because that is not part of the Apps review process.
Can anybody tell how you disable those "Download Yosemite" notifications from the App Store, that pop up after each standby?
Otherwise runs much fine on my MacBook3,1
Otherwise runs much fine on my MacBook3,1
Recovery Partition
Thanks to you guys, I have a working 10.8.4 OS X running on my MacBook Air rev.a for quite sometime!
Two questions I have:
1. Everytime I put the computer to a hibernate sleep, it takes the time to save the RAM into the hard drive and all feels fine, but when I turn it on again - it fails to resume and rather reboots itself and restarts normally.
Putting the mac to regular sleep works fine, but after a few days the battery completely discharges and with no working hibernation in place, the machine just shut off itself. Is there a workaround ?
2. I've recently installed Acronis True Image for Mac and backed up the hard drive to the cloud. In order to do a recovery, Acronis provides a Rescue Media creation utility, that will use a USB flash drive for the creation.
When I tried to create the rescue media, Acronis gave an error message stating that no OS X Recovery Partition exists on the machine for the bootable media to be created using its files. Is it possible to somehow create such a recovery partition for OS X 10.8.4, given the fact that my system runs with MLPF ? Would putting back the Install partition for MLPF do the trick ?
Thanks,
Max
Thanks to you guys, I have a working 10.8.4 OS X running on my MacBook Air rev.a for quite sometime!
Two questions I have:
1. Everytime I put the computer to a hibernate sleep, it takes the time to save the RAM into the hard drive and all feels fine, but when I turn it on again - it fails to resume and rather reboots itself and restarts normally.
Putting the mac to regular sleep works fine, but after a few days the battery completely discharges and with no working hibernation in place, the machine just shut off itself. Is there a workaround ?
2. I've recently installed Acronis True Image for Mac and backed up the hard drive to the cloud. In order to do a recovery, Acronis provides a Rescue Media creation utility, that will use a USB flash drive for the creation.
When I tried to create the rescue media, Acronis gave an error message stating that no OS X Recovery Partition exists on the machine for the bootable media to be created using its files. Is it possible to somehow create such a recovery partition for OS X 10.8.4, given the fact that my system runs with MLPF ? Would putting back the Install partition for MLPF do the trick ?
Thanks,
Max
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Is there any way to add a recovery partiton? I want to be able to use encryption and Find My Mac but am unable to do so. I found a program that will create one but I cant boot into it because the mac is unsupported. Is there any way to add the board ID or will I have to just stick with Lion?
Reinstalling 10.8.4
I have an older MBP 2.33 with OSX 10.8.4 installed with MLPF v0.3.
However, I get the "start up disk full" warning regularly these days with just surfing with Safari and Firefox. And the infinite spinning ball of death....
Am I right to assume that I should have bigger partition for Mountain Lion for things to run more smoothly? And maybe for the Install partition also?
I'm not able to resize the partition in Disk Utility, so what would be the best and easiest solution for this problem? Do I need to completely reinstall or is there something else I can do? (For Dummies version, please).
Also, I wouldn't mind updating to 10.8.5 if the possible sound problem can be fixed with .plist list solution.
Many thanks if someone can help me. I want to install Adobe suite on this laptop so I would want the graphics to run smoothly...
I have an older MBP 2.33 with OSX 10.8.4 installed with MLPF v0.3.
However, I get the "start up disk full" warning regularly these days with just surfing with Safari and Firefox. And the infinite spinning ball of death....
Am I right to assume that I should have bigger partition for Mountain Lion for things to run more smoothly? And maybe for the Install partition also?
I'm not able to resize the partition in Disk Utility, so what would be the best and easiest solution for this problem? Do I need to completely reinstall or is there something else I can do? (For Dummies version, please).
Also, I wouldn't mind updating to 10.8.5 if the possible sound problem can be fixed with .plist list solution.
Many thanks if someone can help me. I want to install Adobe suite on this laptop so I would want the graphics to run smoothly...
This does not work: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/126990
There are some people who write that on 10.6 this message is displayed by another OS X app. That app is not there on Mountain Lion though.
This works: Opt+Click on Yosemity sheet on Updates page, select do not show anymore. The sheet still shows when I close the App Store and navigate to the Updates tab again, but no more notifications.
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Guys, i've got a little problem. Is it possible to install 10.8.4 ON 10.7.5, mean updating. I don't have enough disc space to migrate all programs and settings from Lion to Mountain Lion. If updating is possible it would be a lot easier to work, without any disc space problems and switching between boot volumes .
I also have this question. But let me first say it's probably a good idea to get a drive to do Time Machine backups right now. 3x your disk space is recommended for backup drives.
MLPostFactor not working for me
Hello Hacker Wayn,,,,,
bro i need a help to install 10.8.4 on my c2d mac i try a lot of time but same error the MLPostFector is to finding the os app in my application folder i try all the way but same error plz fix this error
Hello Hacker Wayn,,,,,
bro i need a help to install 10.8.4 on my c2d mac i try a lot of time but same error the MLPostFector is to finding the os app in my application folder i try all the way but same error plz fix this error
I'm seeing render errors in Safari on my MacBook3,1 for this image. When you zoom in and back out the image looks corrupted: http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sleepproductivitywriters_500_1.jpg
Anybody else sees this?
Anybody else sees this?
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