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Heh, me, I wouldn't be joggling dosdude1's elbow right now for such a thing as to which beta should be default in the tool (considering how many people are pestering him for support?)
Secondly - the tool is used for both developer preview as well as public beta - so you think public beta should be the default because??
It's trivial...people can select from the list.
Hit "Refresh Updates" again, then reboot. Also, this can also be delayed by Apple's distribution servers being busy. I had to kill the App Store and reload it a couple times last night before it showed up.
Also, when you select PB4 from the drop down list and click on Patch Update, what happens? (what was returned from the tool?)
Edit: And, when you're posting difficulties, you should say which system (including year) you're having issues with - so those working on the tool can see if there's a common issue.
Yep you are right.My bad.I'm on macbook pro 4,1(mid 2008) and i've got PB2 installed, which i downloaded separately from a dosdude's link.The installation was fine but i can't use recovery and since then i found no other betas using the tool.
I tried rebooting, PRAM flush, many many times tried refreshing updates with the tool, but nothing.I even tried searching for updates from terminal but again nothing.
When i click Patch update, it says "Update does not Exist"
We're testing with the same MBP
If you look in this directory, what's the highest 031- update that you have? (highest number)
/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/softwareupdated/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager/z/
We're testing with the same MBP
If you look in this directory, what's the highest 031- update that you have? (highest number)
/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/softwareupdated/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager/z/
I can only go till here /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/softwareupdated/
Then there isn't any com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager
The only thing i see is com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUDownloadService.state and com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUUpdateServiceDaemon.state
It allows you to change the permissions for the /C/softwareupdated directory, since read/write access is denied by default. The tool is supposed to do this automatically when needed, but it appears it doesn't for some people. If someone is having an issue where the update can't be found, repairing permissions should fix that issue, assuming that the update you're trying to patch is the latest update.
Ahh, thanks. The tool took care of my needs automatically. Everything working great.
I can't, really... I can't!! I have MacOS Sierra Public Beta 1 in my iMac (Early 2009 with upgrade to 8GB RAM) and the tool not works for me. Yup, I already update the tool to the last version ("Fix Permissions" update), I try with PB2, PB3, PB4, DP3, DP4 and DP5 and NOTHING! I Already restart the machine, restart PRAM, "Fix Permissions", "Refresh Updates" a lot of times and NOTHING, at this point I really need someone that help me...
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I had not had problems updating from DP1 to DP2 then to DP3 and DP4 however when I did the update to DP5, after it downloaded and installed when the computer rebooted it just showed the Forbidden Icon and then stopped. I tried rebooting a couple of times, but with same result. My computer is a macbook pro 5,1
Man, can you help me with my problem? I can't update my Mac from PB1 to PB4 (and no other) I have PB1 in iMac Early 2009.
I didn't run the post-install patch (hadn't done that with any of the earlier updates, 2,3,4); I can try this - although I have only a very early version of the install patch tool (more recent versions don't seem to work with DP updates?)
Well, I'm thinking you need to re-patch the OS - looking like something has gone awry, that it isn't allowing boot because it thinks your system is no longer in the supported machines list.
Edit: I'm thinking what it needs to do, the files it's touching wouldn't have changed - it should still work fine in terms of patching things.
You also may want to disable SIP (I do on mine) - so if you need to load any kexts it's easier.
You'd use the terminal utility when booting from the USB or recovery partition and type csrutil disable
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That may cause an issue, but it should work fine. Try refreshing updates/fixing permissions, and rebooting, and see if that works. Also, since you're running DP1, be sure to use the DP5 update.
@dosdude1 the tool created a folder into /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C but it isn't softwareupdated but directly com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager
i created the folder softwareupdated and copied the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager folder
after this i tried to relaunch the tool and it show update successful but into Mac App Store after 4 times i still show Nessun aggiornamento disponibile
i created the folder softwareupdated and copied the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.SUCatalogDataManager folder
after this i tried to relaunch the tool and it show update successful but into Mac App Store after 4 times i still show Nessun aggiornamento disponibile
I did run the post-install patch utility and this apparently did enough to allow the updated DP5 partition to boot successfully. Thanks for the suggestion. (SIP had always been disabled since original DP1 install).
Hi @dosdude1, you're doing a great job with the patching-tools. (Also the whole community)
I'm using a MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009) and installing the PB1 worked fine. But when I'm trying to patch my system, so it updates to PB4 I don't see any updates in the App-Store. I'm off course using the latest update-tool and tried to refresh updates, fix permissions and reboot multiple times. Nothing happens :-(.
I also used the PB3 and installed it freshly but neither my trackpad, nor my Keyboard were recognised, so I went back.
Thanks for your help...
I'm using a MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009) and installing the PB1 worked fine. But when I'm trying to patch my system, so it updates to PB4 I don't see any updates in the App-Store. I'm off course using the latest update-tool and tried to refresh updates, fix permissions and reboot multiple times. Nothing happens :-(.
I also used the PB3 and installed it freshly but neither my trackpad, nor my Keyboard were recognised, so I went back.
Thanks for your help...