macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Vyzantion]

Can anyone confirm that PB 10 is still available? Either as an update or as full installer app? I can not find it at all.

 

[jackluke]

Can you please tell me or point me to @pkouame's hybrid patch or is it similar to @jackluke's post, which I made 2 shell scripts from it. Listed below.
View attachment 781796

Thanks.

This method "without killall Finder" won't work properly, if you don't relaunch the Finder you will have still "dark grey Finder left side-bar windows" per every app, anyway page 279 is my post about it, I update it sometimes. I appreciated you used "cat" unix command.

 

[oscarodas]

You know, I've done many many experiments on that, I was doing a script patch on it, but I'd have preferred to wait first for the pkouame "hybrid light mode".

To those who have an OpenGL (non-Metal) GPU, and prefer to use Mojave in "light mode":

I introduce my "hybrid reduce transparency" for Mojave "light mode" (Download link attached at bottom):

For those instead want to try to reduce transparency "saving Dock transparency" from their Terminal, here is my funny experiment:

defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceTransparency -bool true
killall Finder

after done, close and re-open safari (and any previous opened app) and you'll notice also the clearer Safari's Favorites front page.

Until you don't relaunch the Dock you'll have a partial transparency, but unluckily the Dock.app is strictly dependent from the Finder.app so it will work but temporary, let's say, until a reboot or logout it will work. It works also after the sleep lock screen, just avoid switching between multi-users, otherwise need to repeat using the "METHOD 2" explained further on this post.

Not only Dock's transparencies are saved but also Notification Center and some others.
The key is deny the system to relaunch the Dock and Notification Center for you.

To return with normal "transparency" use Accessibility prefpane or type from Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceTransparency -bool false
killall Finder; killall Dock; killall NotificationCenter; killall Spotlight

edit:
I will release a full shell script with more patches further on.

edit2:
Just double click on this attached shell mojavehld.command and it will launch through Terminal, anyone can try the reduce transparency patch, it's totally harmless.

Note: I like the "homebrew" shell, that's why I forced the black/green colors even on a white Terminal.

edit3:
Please re-download the mojave.command since I made some little update. I've added the "killall Dock, NotificationCenter and Spotlight", forgotten in restore Mojave defaults and transparency patch.


[METHOD 1]
After launch the mojavehld.command just follow these steps:
type 1
type 4
close Terminal (CMD+Q) and any other app previously opened.

(The choice number 3 is not mandatory)

[METHOD 2]
If for some reason after that you will still get Dock and Notification Center with "reduced transparencies" then relaunch the mojavehld.command:
type 2
type 1
type 4
close Terminal (CMD+Q) and any other app previously opened.

It will 100% work until restart or logout. Even after sleep lock screen it will still work.

Here are the proofs screenshots:

Guess I'm doing something wrong, because when I double click on mojavehld.command nothing happens, maybe my system doesn't qualify? (iMac 2011) I've that you have transparent windows, mine not a single one.

 

[jackluke]

Guess I'm doing something wrong, because when I double click on mojavehld.command nothing happens, maybe my system doesn't qualify? (iMac 2011) I've that you have transparent windows, mine not a single one.

Everyone qualify, it works even on HighSierra, probably you have another app associated to the ".command" file extension, try simply to open a Terminal and drag the "mojavehld.command" dropping into it and press enter key to launch from there.

edit:
My mistake, @dosdude1 is totally right.

 

[dosdude1]

Guess I'm doing something wrong, because when I double click on mojavehld.command nothing happens, maybe my system doesn't qualify? (iMac 2011) I've that you have transparent windows, mine not a single one.

You don't have graphics acceleration if you have an AMD Radeon HD 5xxx or 6xxx series card, therefore, you will not notice any changes in visual effects.

 

[oscarodas]

Everyone qualify, it works even on HighSierra, probably you have another app associated to the ".command" file extension, try simply to open a Terminal and drag the "mojavehld.command" dropping into it and press enter key to launch from there.

edit:
My mistake, @dosdude1 is totally right.

I just did it right now and get the message command not found
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I just did it right now and get the message command not found

thank you.

 

[pkouame]

I think you use mine to turn "whiter" the "dark grey" Finder "left side-bar windows" (I'd discovered another way to do that), but if I understood you should not use them together, I mean my patch instead of "reduce transparency" will act like "enable transparency" if you use it with the pkouame patch, and viceversa. So that's why you could encounter issues using both simultaneously.

In summary, my patch requires "reduce transparency" feature disabled namely "pure blur transparency", while pkouame patch it's an already "reduced transparency" namely "pure 100% opacity".

My HIToolbox patch does one simple thing: turns off menu bar transparency, which is different than accessibility reduce transparency. I prefer to keep transparencies and blurs active even in a broken Light mode (so that dock and notification side panels and others remain "vibrant") . That's the version Tim tested since HIToolbox has been pretty stable from DB9 forward...

So yes, not meant to work together, not harmful but addressing two different problems. Different approaches. I am addressing the app sidebars with a patch to other frameworks and/or other techniques.

 

[DuncanGarp]

This method "without killall Finder" won't work properly, if you don't relaunch the Finder you will have still "dark grey Finder left side-bar windows" per every app, anyway page 279 is my post about it, I update it sometimes. I appreciated you used "cat" unix command.

Thank you Sir @jackluke!

I am in the process of implementing your script (the reduceTransparency ON section) when I startup my Mac - via launchd implementation (trying to figure it out how). In the meantime, I included it on my .profile script to execute when opening Terminal. Do I need to run "sudo killall Finder" as well?

Thanks again.

Edit: clarification: my preference is a transparent Dock, so that was what I want to default to be on entering terminal.

 

[Starplayr]

Apple almost never does an iOS/tvOS event alongside macOs for years now. There will either be a separate event for macOS in October or there will be an announcements with no event (since sometimes the macOS event is at or around WWDC in June). Since it's the Christmas shopping season, usually you want to set up some buzz for people to buy Macs before then. And finally, iPads get renewed in March. Again, Apple's pretty predictable these days with their product lifecycle.

Apple almost never does an iOS/tvOS event alongside macOs for years now. There will either be a separate event for macOS in October or there will be an announcements with no event (since sometimes the macOS event is at or around WWDC in June). Since it's the Christmas shopping season, usually you want to set up some buzz for people to buy Macs before then. And finally, iPads get renewed in March. Again, Apple's pretty predictable these days with their product lifecycle.

Apple Watch and iPhones way predictive. You can put your watch by it.

Mac Pro? Last update was 2013.
Neutered Mac Mini 2014.

Mac Pro 5,1 and Mac Mini 2012 with minor upgrades out perform their nearby replacements.

Those who are buying Mac Pro’s and Mac Minis these days are buying 4-5 year old tech and Apple never puts great GPUs in those systems unless you pay through the nose for an upgraded 2013 Mac Pro.

Apple is a consumer company. Go to any Apple store and most people these are on the iPhones, iPods, iPads, Beats, Watches. A few idiots there get advice on this Macs at the Genius Bar. Apple is leaving the Mac and it’s MacOS as an after thought. even the 2018 Mac Book Pro refresh is so similar to the 2016 models.

iPhone X replaced by 3 other iPhones that are so incrementally improved it’s a joke. Apple is predictable but the Mac is not their bread and butter. It’s all about the next iPhone upgrade.

And ii’ve been to WWDC. And this last event was so close to a WWDC keynote that it’s knkda like I have seen this already. It’s the same stuff in the same package with a new price tag and everything is marginally better.

I am Apple fan boy since 1984. And Apple without Jobs is like watching ground hog day over and over.

 

[TimothyR734]

I think you use mine to turn "whiter" the "dark grey" Finder "left side-bar windows" (I'd discovered another way to do that), but if I understood you should not use them together, I mean my patch instead of "reduce transparency" will act like "enable transparency" if you use it with the pkouame patch, and viceversa. So that's why you could encounter issues using both simultaneously.

In summary, my patch requires "reduce transparency" feature disabled namely "pure blur transparency", while pkouame patch it's an already "reduced transparency" namely "pure 100% opacity".

I have pkouame patch hybrid patch on my MacBook
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Can you please tell me or point me to @pkouame's hybrid patch or is it similar to @jackluke's post, which I made 2 shell scripts from it. Listed below.
View attachment 781796

Thanks.

You need to pm pkouame for instructions and the hybrid patch
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Can anyone confirm that PB 10 is still available? Either as an update or as full installer app? I can not find it at all.

Do you have the public beta access utility installed
[doublepost=1536971410][/doublepost]I have noticed that running pkouame and jackluke's hybrid patches my gnu temp is 10 degrees cooler

 

[thegurgz]

Found a bug that I noticed in APFS in the past betas slightly, but never grabbed screenshots, just reformatted back to HFS+. I'll start at the beginning.
Had a Mojave disk, formatted as macOS Extended(Journaled), or HFS+ with around 30gb of data.View attachment 781377
Then, reformatted to APFS, no issues, booted back in (previously used APFS Rom patcher), still 30gb.View attachment 781378
Ran a reinstall of the same beta build to get everything correctly in the container and see if this glitch would happen again, as I had seen it but quickly reverted back to HFS+. Everything went flawlessly, still 30gb.View attachment 781381
I thought that this glitch would come back after installing an OS on an APFS drive, but it did not, so I thought maybe it was a one time thing. Everything was perfect and smooth until updating from native Software Updater (OTA). After updating to the GM canidate, 18A389, my drive size was not correct, showing 50gb instead of 30gb.View attachment 781382
What troubles me is that in "About This Mac">Storage, it shows the correct amount used an available. Clicking manage shows me all the sizes of files, which adds up correctly to the amount it should be. I booted onto my installer stick and opened disk utility from there, and it is still showing 20gb higher than it should. As I mentioned, I have seen this once more before after an OTA update, and reformatting to HFS+ fixed the issue. Anyone have any insight as to why this would happen after updating OTA?

No one else has this issue or knows what to do about it?

 

[webg3]

Now that we have the GM Release Candidate, I decided to remove the Mojave Beta partition and install it over the High Sierra, my thoughts on this: I should have done this before, the system is much more responsive and faster than in High Sierra, my apps and games are running normally, I was afraid that 'Age of Empires III' would break and stop working, it's one of the few games dubbed in my language, totally localized for my region, I appreciate that. But it's working normally. Many thanks to everyone involved for providing us, I know I've already thanked you back, but now that we're on the final stretch, there's no way I can go back to High Sierra, I really like Dark Mode, that's what I took to use.

@dosdude1 Night Shift disappeared for me.
Patcher Update 1.2.0

MacBook Pro 2010 13" (7,1) / Nvidia GeForce 320m / 8GB DDR3 / SSD Samsung EVO750 250GB

 

[dosdude1]

Now that we have the GM Release Candidate, I decided to remove the Mojave Beta partition and install it over the High Sierra, my thoughts on this: I should have done this before, the system is much more responsive and faster than in High Sierra, my apps and games are running normally, I was afraid that 'Age of Empires III' would break and stop working, it's one of the few games dubbed in my language, totally localized for my region, I appreciate that. But it's working normally. Many thanks to everyone involved for providing us, I know I've already thanked you back, but now that we're on the final stretch, there's no way I can go back to High Sierra, I really like Dark Mode, that's what I took to use.

@dosdude1 Night Shift disappeared for me.
Patcher Update 1.2.0

MacBook Pro 2010 13" (7,1) / Nvidia GeForce 320m / 8GB DDR3 / SSD Samsung EVO750 250GB

Night Shift will return to Patch Updater, I need to work out some bugs with it first.

 

[TimothyR734]

No one else has this issue or knows what to do about it?

You might try DrClean all the formatting going from HFS to APFS and HFS and then APFS might have filled up your caches

 

[ASentientBot]

Night Shift will return to Patch Updater, I need to work out some bugs with it first.

In the mean time, there is always the manual method! I am no expert, but I prefer to do everything manually. It gives you a deeper understanding of the modifications and you realize this really isn't magic. It's a few (quite simple) steps. So if you want to learn a bit, follow a few tutorials!

The automatic patch is awesome, by the way. Very, very impressive. It's just not my thing to rely on tools when I can do it myself.

 

[Vyzantion]

I have pkouame patch hybrid patch on my MacBook
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You need to pm pkouame for instructions and the hybrid patch
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Do you have the public beta access utility installed
[doublepost=1536971410][/doublepost]I have noticed that running pkouame and jackluke's hybrid patches my gnu temp is 10 degrees cooler

Of course I have the utility installed.

 

[TimothyR734]

Of course I have the utility installed.

I saw in another thread the some people were having issues with the Apple beta access utility that after several updates the utility became corrupted

 

[crjackson2134]

Apple Beta Access Utility needed more beta testing

 

[rkrumwiede]

@dosdude1 just completed the upgrade all smooth with one exception, both lan ports will not obtain an IP. No link lights. Obviously WiFi inop. Any tips? Used mojave patcher 1.2.0 with the download image from servers in the tool.

 

[TimothyR734]

@dosdude1 just completed the upgrade all smooth with one exception, both lan ports will not obtain an IP. No link lights. Obviously WiFi inop. Any tips? Used mojave patcher 1.2.0 with the download image from servers in the tool.

Did you apply the legacy wifi patch in the post install or check to see on the OP if you have a supported wifi card you could also re-install the wifi patch in the patch updater in your utilities folder

 

[jackluke]

Thank you Sir @jackluke!

I am in the process of implementing your script (the reduceTransparency ON section) when I startup my Mac - via launchd implementation (trying to figure it out how). In the meantime, I included it on my .profile script to execute when opening Terminal. Do I need to run "sudo killall Finder" as well?

Thanks again.

Edit: clarification: my preference is a transparent Dock, so that was what I want to default to be on entering terminal.

If I understood well, you want to boot Mojave directly in "light mode" avoiding the "dark grey Finder menu and windows sidebars", then I guess you should use the auto-logon at startup without entering the password at the login screen, otherwise you could encounter a global transparency reduction. From a bash.profile no need to use "sudo" just "killall Finder" to relaunch the Finder, use it also to return into default transparency especially needed for stock translucent "dark mode". So you have to do as I did earlier, when you "reduceTransparency true" relaunch only Finder, when you "reduceTransparency false" relaunch Finder with all the others involved apps: Dock, Notifaction etc.

Check the attached file (it's safe and harmless), I've made some finishing touch, it seems better responsive and now terminal when closing does not keep truncating history, I have preferred to avoid osascript to tell to close it.

 

[arqueox]

Hi, I only had time now to update my MBP 2011. I had DP10 and it shows now that I have DP11 available. I have made de update and then it shows MacOS version 10.14... It shouldn't be a beta version still?

 

[jackluke]

I have pkouame patch hybrid patch on my MacBook
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You need to pm pkouame for instructions and the hybrid patch
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Do you have the public beta access utility installed
[doublepost=1536971410][/doublepost]I have noticed that running pkouame and jackluke's hybrid patches my gnu temp is 10 degrees cooler

Hey @TimothyR734 if your GPU temp is decreased that's great!
After all it is less stressed with some "reduced transparency", I guess you mean -10 ºF, not -10 ºC (the scale I use), if you meant "Celsius degree" that would be amazing and almost harder at the same time, especially for legacy power dissipation GPUs. Even if I think it's a coincidence.

 

[mrploppy]

You might try DrClean all the formatting going from HFS to APFS and HFS and then APFS might have filled up your caches

Do you mean Dr Cleaner, as mentioned here?
https://eclecticlight.co/2018/09/11...-micros-apps-exfiltrate-your-browser-history/

 

[Vyzantion]

I saw in another thread the some people were having issues with the Apple beta access utility that after several updates the utility became corrupted

Now, someone on Tonymacx86 said that updating worked on only APFS, not HFS+. Someone is working at a patch for updating on HFS+, but no promises.