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Hi ive a MacBook5,1 patched with dosdudes1 patch 4.27 - Every works okay BUT i cant login to icloud ;( i type my apple id and my pass, the small ring cyrcles but after then im not logged in.
in systempreferences..

ANY ideas?
 
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maculateConception said:
Hi Luigi, I also have a mid-2009 MBP (13 inch), and am considering upgrading to Sierra. Did your factory Wi-Fi card work as is ? Or did it need upgrading as well ? From what you said, it sounds like it did, but I want to make sure, before I take the plunge.

Thanks !
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I just completed my Sierra 10.12.5 install with dosdude's tool, and it was absolutely silky smooth ! Thanks so much for all the great work !

WiFi works great, everything looks ok so far. Now, I need to check app compatibility for some of my fav everyday apps.

Mid 2009 13" Macbook Pro, 2.53 GHz, 8GB RAM, Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD.

On to programming with Swift 3 for a change :D
 
apriliars3 said:
macOS 10.12.6 available

How can download it from Mac Store?
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10.12.6 is showing up on my App Store, sometimes it takes a bit of time to reach everyone.

Otherwise you can download the Combo from here, https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1931?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US although you will not be able to install it right away you need to modify the distribution file and then repackage the download, its all a bit of a faff. Here are the instructions.

Modifying the Combo Updaters for Sierra.



Download Combo.

Open Combo.

Move Combo .pkg to desktop.

Open terminal.

Enter pkgutil —expand ~/Desktop/macOsUpdCombo10.12.6.pkg ~/Desktop/Expanded



Open Expanded folder and then open Distribution file in Text Wrangler



Change Distribution file, change Board iD line 21 to <your Macs boardID> at line 29 remove <your Mac model>



Save As .xml file to the Desktop



In Terminal chmod +x ~/Desktop/distribution.xml

Remove the extension .xml

Move new Distribution file to expanded package replacing the original

In terminal pkgutil —flatten ~/Desktop/Expanded ~/Desktop/Modified.pkg



Using the .pkg extension is crucial.

The Modified package on your desktop should now allow you to install the latest update


Please Note.


The dashes before the commands expand and flatten are two separate dashes but look like one long one here, please type the commands into terminal rather than copying and pasting as that will give an error.
 
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Sofad said:
thank you L Caputo
typo in first command, - is missing :-;

Replace:


with



ModelID BoardID
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Last line of my text says this.
The dashes before the commands expand and flatten are two separate dashes but look like one long one here, in terminal they should come up as separate.
 
Sofad said:
ok, copy pasting them created one dash, nevermind, thanks
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Yeah sorry its not very clear but I really meant not to copy and paste because of the single dash issue and for you to type the text in Terminal so two distinct dashes will be seen. I shall edit my post.
 
Not seeing it yet on either of my hacked 2008 Mac Pros. I do have the combo installer but I'm a little too lazy to go through the trouble right now. I did turn off my Mac OS X Server Caching server to see if that was interfering but it doesn't seem to matter.
 
Sevenfeet said:
Not seeing it yet on either of my hacked 2008 Mac Pros. I do have the combo installer but I'm a little too lazy to go through the trouble right now. I did turn off my Mac OS X Server Caching server to see if that was interfering but it doesn't seem to matter.
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Noticed on MacRumors main page comments about 10.12.6 update has been pulled. So maybe that is why it is not showing, best check again tomorrow.
 
I have MBP 5,5 and i edited the *.xml File. When i open the pkg for install 10.12.6, comes error message! What is wrong?

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L Caputo said:
The modified package should be on the desktop not within expanded, try moving it and see if it will install.
Can you translate the error message please.
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Starting Install-Package on Desktop, i have the same error message (Google Translate: The operation could not be completed.).
[doublepost=1500553251][/doublepost]I have found the error! I remove the *.xml Extension. But in file-Information was *.xml present. After remove *.xml Extension in File-Information and repackage fixed my problem. Install and 10.12.6 works fine.
 
Machist said:
Mac Pro 2008 updated macOS 10.12.6 via App Store.
No problems..
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Neither of my 2008 Mac Pros have received the update and I get frequent, but not consistent "NSURL ErrorDomain error -1100" error when I try.

May have to try the hard way with parsing out the combo installer.
 
Was running Sierra fine on a iMac 9,1. Just updated the latest .6 Sierra update and the apple logo is hanging about 95% through boot up... how long should I let it run. Should I run post install force cache rebuild again?

Nevermind. The second I hit send it booted up.
 
I have a MBP5.5 and updated smoothly to 10.12.6 via App Store. What I did:
1) Reapplied the patch (MacOSPostInstall) of dosdude after starting from USB-stick. This step was perhaps unnecessary.
2) Successfully started with "shift", which did not work (crossed circle), until I applied step one.
3) Restarted MBP, and started the update via "App Store" as if it was a supported Mac.

Everything went fine.
 
Growing impatient waiting for the 10.12.6 upgrade to show up in the AUSEnabler catalog.
After reading the post above by "virk" I decided to give the upgrade a shot.
MacPro3,1 running Sierra 10.12.5., installed using dosdudes patch.
After making sure I had 2 working cloned backups I downloaded the 10.12.6 upgrade from the Apple App store and let it install.
Once the install finished the system booted up to 10.12.6 Sierra and much to my surprise appeared to run normally.
As a "just-in-case" I rebooted from the USB pen drive and re-did the post-install patches.
Much appreciation to the folks that make and maintain the hacks and patches that make all this possible.:)

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Sevenfeet said:
Neither of my 2008 Mac Pros have received the update and I get frequent, but not consistent "NSURL ErrorDomain error -1100" error when I try.

May have to try the hard way with parsing out the combo installer.
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I'm getting this issue too on my 2008 Mac Pro.
 
Was getting ready to make the jump from Elcap to Sierra 12.6 on my 2008 Macpro and noticed this on Dosdudes page:

Q: I get "NSURL" errors when trying to update my machine
A: If you've used the older "AUSEnabler" method to enable updating, you'll need to run "sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog" in Terminal, and then run the software update patch script located above.

Not sure if that will help anyone with the above NSURL errors, but figured I'd just re-mention it in case it could help.
 
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jimithing1 said:
I'm getting this issue too on my 2008 Mac Pro.
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Same here. MacPro 3,1, NSURLErrorDomain Error -1100.
I'm going to wait another day or two, and then will go for the manual install if necessary.

Anyway, thanks for AUS Enabler, it has been most useful!
 
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