i just tried downloading the updated patcher but it still links to 1.2.2
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I had the problem, reload a number of times and it will refresh the cache, or delete your Safari Cache.
his site is still showing and downloading 1.2.2
I'm also having issues with bluetooth even showing up after the most recent update (I had everything working great in the last working build). I get a sawtooth line through my bluetooth symbol and a "Bluetooth Unavailable". "No information found" in System Information. I've tried rebooting, running the Patch Updater, Post Install tool, deleting the com.apple.bluetooth.plst, all to no avail. Sure hope there's a fix here soon.
I'm running a Mid 2011 Mac mini
Thank you for the suggestion. I successfully followed your procedure and restarted, but alas, no bluetooth still.
My mistake, you have a WiFi/Bt4 all-in-one card, so you only need to replace the IO80211Family.kext untouched from Mojave, even taking from HighSierra will work. Or you have to reinstall Mojave without using WiFi patch, because your BT 4.0 is embedded into the Broadcom WiFi kext.
Wow, Dosdude, I continue to be amazed.
Heard there was a full update (not Beta) Opened software Update in Preferences, checked, downloaded thge 3.3 gB update - ran it, many restarts it seemed to be frozen -
I did some errands & came back 20 mins later to the Mojave login screen - and - all appears fine!
Thank you thank you -standard update process for my late 2009 MacPro tower!
Heard there was a full update (not Beta) Opened software Update in Preferences, checked, downloaded thge 3.3 gB update - ran it, many restarts it seemed to be frozen -
I did some errands & came back 20 mins later to the Mojave login screen - and - all appears fine!
Thank you thank you -standard update process for my late 2009 MacPro tower!
Reporting a successful update from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 on a 11,1 iMac.
I simply downloaded the new patcher, recreated the bootable USB key, installed Mojave on the previous version, applied again the patches and it worked flawlessly.
I simply downloaded the new patcher, recreated the bootable USB key, installed Mojave on the previous version, applied again the patches and it worked flawlessly.
My experience with updating my iMac 10,1 from 10.14 to 10.14.1.
First I created a USB stick with Patcher Tool version 1.2.3 (Thank you @dosdude1) and the full Mojave installer 10.14.1 downloaded from the AppStore.
Then from Software Update panel in System Preferences, I started the update process. The updater file was downloaded (3.11 GB), then the installation took place (about 25 minutes). At the restart, I suspended the boot process holding the Option key so that I can boot from the USB stick, and then execute the post install utility. After the post install completed the patching I clicked on the reboot button.
The machine rebooted en entered in a reboot loop. I tried to apply again the post install with a force cache rebuild at boot, without success.
I then rebooted once again from the USB stick, and performed an installation. The process took hours. I once again executed the post install tool. This time the machine booted but at about two third of the boot was rebooting with a message telling that a problem occurred and to press a key of wait for the machine to reboot. Letting the machine reboot was leading to the same results. Thus I booted from and external device and replaced the five *IOUSB*.kext in /System/Library/Extension with the one from my former 10.14 installation. After that the boot completed and I saw with relief the login screen being displayed.
First I created a USB stick with Patcher Tool version 1.2.3 (Thank you @dosdude1) and the full Mojave installer 10.14.1 downloaded from the AppStore.
Then from Software Update panel in System Preferences, I started the update process. The updater file was downloaded (3.11 GB), then the installation took place (about 25 minutes). At the restart, I suspended the boot process holding the Option key so that I can boot from the USB stick, and then execute the post install utility. After the post install completed the patching I clicked on the reboot button.
The machine rebooted en entered in a reboot loop. I tried to apply again the post install with a force cache rebuild at boot, without success.
I then rebooted once again from the USB stick, and performed an installation. The process took hours. I once again executed the post install tool. This time the machine booted but at about two third of the boot was rebooting with a message telling that a problem occurred and to press a key of wait for the machine to reboot. Letting the machine reboot was leading to the same results. Thus I booted from and external device and replaced the five *IOUSB*.kext in /System/Library/Extension with the one from my former 10.14 installation. After that the boot completed and I saw with relief the login screen being displayed.
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Yes, that is the standard Terminal procedure to install any kext: manual copy replacement into /S/L/E/ , chown/chmod its content, rebuild kextcache.
Turns out I had a problem with my USB drive not being mounted properly. DosDude's suggestion of setting the verbose display on helped here.
So this morning I set about doing the upgrade and everything went fine until I had finished running the install when if froze with the display showing a completed progress bar. This gave me a hell of a fright as I thought that I had finally bricked my Mac!
Eventually I decided to take the nuclear option of powering off then on again, and booting onto the USB drive, whereupon I completed the post-install procedure, and rebooted. It took for ever to reboot but evetually it all settled down and I am now happily running 10.14.1 on my Apple Mac Pro (early 2009).
The moral of the story appears to be that if the install process freezes at the very end, then a power off/on may sort things out. No guarantees of course. We're all living on the edge doing this kind of stuff, I guess!
That is weird because only the "IOUSBFamily.kext" has change.
10.14 : version 900.4.1
10.14.1: version 900.4.2
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Is anybody Have Little Snitch installed while the upgrade ?
Thx
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Can confirm 10.14.1 is installed and running fine on my MacBook5,1 (late 2008 unibody, upgraded to 8GB RAM and a 128GB Crucial SSD formatted HFS+ journaled). Only hiccup was that I had to use the "Force Cache Rebuild" function – see all steps as listed below.
Here are the steps I followed to update from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1:
1. Downloaded DosDude1's latest macOS Mojave Patcher (version 1.2.3).
2. Launched the patcher app, selected "Download macOS Mojave" from the Tools menu, and waited for the full 10.14.1 installer to finish downloading from Apple's servers.
3. Plugged in my external USB drive and let the Patcher do its thing – reformatting the drive and copying the patched Mojave installer onto it.
4. Restarted my MacBook from the USB drive, and ran the new installer overtop of the existing 10.14 install on my internal SSD (still formatted HFS+ journaled). Installer completed after about 33 minutes and initiated a restart. I held down the option key and again booted from the USB drive.
5. Ran the macOS Post-Install utility for my Mac model. Clicked the reboot button.
6. MacBook rebooted several times. After showing the kernel panic screen i.e. "Your computer restarted because of a problem...please press any key" and rebooting several times to no avail, I held down the option key to again reboot from the USB drive.
7. Re-ran the macOS Post-Install utility for my Mac model, and this time clicked the "Force Cache Rebuild" checkbox and clicked the Reboot button. That did the trick, and within a minute or two the Mac had restarted successfully back to the sign-in screen. (Total elapsed time for this upgrade install was about 40 minutes.)
BUGS I HAD NOTICED IN 10.14.0:
-File and folder icons will periodically stop refreshing on the Desktop. Restarting usually resolves this issue.
BUGS/ISSUES I'VE NOTICED UPGRADING TO 10.14.1 (other than known sidebar shading issue):
-Night Shift was disabled after the update, but I fixed this by reinstalling the Night Shift patch via DosDude1's Patch Updater app.
-My computer was renamed to the generic "MacBook", but I fixed this by re-editing the name in Sharing preferences.
-10.14.1 seems to have resolved a small issue I experienced under 10.14.0, where I'd notice my file and folder icons weren't loading on the Desktop. That seems to now be resolved.
-I tried playing a new DVD but it didn't work. The built-in optical drive did recognize the DVD media and launched the DVD Player app, but DVD player would not autoplay or respond to my clicks to start playing or enter the main menu. (FYI: The same DVD played fine on a supported Mac running Mojave.)
-The MacBook does seem to slow down after regular use, or when I put it to sleep overnight instead of shutting it down. I think this was present under 10.14.0 but I can't be sure as I was shutting the computer down after each use. Now I'm putting the machine to sleep more and am noticing the problem more often. The only way I can temporarily correct this is by doing a restart, or using Memory Clean to do it's thing...which seems to sweep away some of the cobwebs.
-iCloud seems to not update from this MacBook quite as often as from my other devices. I'll often make changes on this MacBook to my Calendar, or iCloud Drive, or other apps that sync with iCloud, then put this Mac to sleep, only to notice that those changes haven't copied over across devices. At one point I used Terminal to reset my iCloud Drive, which successfully got things back in sync, but then left me with a bunch of duplicate files to sort through.
-My birthdays calendar has periodically stopped showing up in Calendar. It works fine with my other devices — syncing birthdays from my Contacts to my Calendar — but I recently noticed it suddenly stopped working on my MacBook for a week or so. And then one day I awoke the MacBook from sleep and the birthdays appeared again. So I'm not sure what's going on with that.
Otherwise everything else is behaving as it did under 10.14.0. Will update this post if I discover any other issues. The most important thing is that I can now view all the latest Emojis
***UPDATE: After installing 10.14.3***
Upgrade procedure went smoothly and was the exact same as outlined above for 10.14.1. One nice improvement is that Textedit now works in dark mode. Under 10.14.1 it had continued to use black text on the white background, but now it's white-on-black. Will update this post with any bugs as I discover them...
Here are the steps I followed to update from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1:
1. Downloaded DosDude1's latest macOS Mojave Patcher (version 1.2.3).
2. Launched the patcher app, selected "Download macOS Mojave" from the Tools menu, and waited for the full 10.14.1 installer to finish downloading from Apple's servers.
3. Plugged in my external USB drive and let the Patcher do its thing – reformatting the drive and copying the patched Mojave installer onto it.
4. Restarted my MacBook from the USB drive, and ran the new installer overtop of the existing 10.14 install on my internal SSD (still formatted HFS+ journaled). Installer completed after about 33 minutes and initiated a restart. I held down the option key and again booted from the USB drive.
5. Ran the macOS Post-Install utility for my Mac model. Clicked the reboot button.
6. MacBook rebooted several times. After showing the kernel panic screen i.e. "Your computer restarted because of a problem...please press any key" and rebooting several times to no avail, I held down the option key to again reboot from the USB drive.
7. Re-ran the macOS Post-Install utility for my Mac model, and this time clicked the "Force Cache Rebuild" checkbox and clicked the Reboot button. That did the trick, and within a minute or two the Mac had restarted successfully back to the sign-in screen. (Total elapsed time for this upgrade install was about 40 minutes.)
BUGS I HAD NOTICED IN 10.14.0:
-File and folder icons will periodically stop refreshing on the Desktop. Restarting usually resolves this issue.
BUGS/ISSUES I'VE NOTICED UPGRADING TO 10.14.1 (other than known sidebar shading issue):
-Night Shift was disabled after the update, but I fixed this by reinstalling the Night Shift patch via DosDude1's Patch Updater app.
-My computer was renamed to the generic "MacBook", but I fixed this by re-editing the name in Sharing preferences.
-10.14.1 seems to have resolved a small issue I experienced under 10.14.0, where I'd notice my file and folder icons weren't loading on the Desktop. That seems to now be resolved.
-I tried playing a new DVD but it didn't work. The built-in optical drive did recognize the DVD media and launched the DVD Player app, but DVD player would not autoplay or respond to my clicks to start playing or enter the main menu. (FYI: The same DVD played fine on a supported Mac running Mojave.)
-The MacBook does seem to slow down after regular use, or when I put it to sleep overnight instead of shutting it down. I think this was present under 10.14.0 but I can't be sure as I was shutting the computer down after each use. Now I'm putting the machine to sleep more and am noticing the problem more often. The only way I can temporarily correct this is by doing a restart, or using Memory Clean to do it's thing...which seems to sweep away some of the cobwebs.
-iCloud seems to not update from this MacBook quite as often as from my other devices. I'll often make changes on this MacBook to my Calendar, or iCloud Drive, or other apps that sync with iCloud, then put this Mac to sleep, only to notice that those changes haven't copied over across devices. At one point I used Terminal to reset my iCloud Drive, which successfully got things back in sync, but then left me with a bunch of duplicate files to sort through.
-My birthdays calendar has periodically stopped showing up in Calendar. It works fine with my other devices — syncing birthdays from my Contacts to my Calendar — but I recently noticed it suddenly stopped working on my MacBook for a week or so. And then one day I awoke the MacBook from sleep and the birthdays appeared again. So I'm not sure what's going on with that.
Otherwise everything else is behaving as it did under 10.14.0. Will update this post if I discover any other issues. The most important thing is that I can now view all the latest Emojis
***UPDATE: After installing 10.14.3***
Upgrade procedure went smoothly and was the exact same as outlined above for 10.14.1. One nice improvement is that Textedit now works in dark mode. Under 10.14.1 it had continued to use black text on the white background, but now it's white-on-black. Will update this post with any bugs as I discover them...
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I've done all of this, and it made no difference. I even reinstalled the OS without the WIFI patch. It's borked until further notice. GAAA
Where do you got the IO80211Family.kext ? That is 99% the bluetooth issue on Airport Wifi/BT all-in-one cards.
After re-installing do you have re-applied patches for your Mac Model avoiding only the Wifi Patch and then most important selecting the "Force cache rebuild" button ?
If doesn't work, boot from the USB Mojave Installer and launch DiskUtility First Aid to fix eventual issues.
If you already done this, then after the power-on chime hold CMD+V and keep holding until you see a verbose screen, then post a picture here.
Probably I cannot answer more later, so maybe others could help, or I'll again tomorrow, but don't worry, here everything is fixable.
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Hello,
silly question: I'm running 10.14.0 on a Mac mini 3,1 (HFS+).
Software update 10.14.1 isn't showing.
Have I to do something special to see the update?
silly question: I'm running 10.14.0 on a Mac mini 3,1 (HFS+).
Software update 10.14.1 isn't showing.
Have I to do something special to see the update?
I got my key from the High Sierra side of my Mac mini. I did the same process, rebooted, and still no change.
I reapplied all patches except the WIFI (I was thinking ahead on this) and then did the force cache rebuild. Still no changes
I booted from USB and did repairs with DiskUtility. No changes
I'm not certain what you're wanting a picture of when booting in Verbose. It scrolled so darn quick through everything and then loaded OS X I wasn't able to to get a snapshot. Is there another way to capture all of that information as it's racing by?
It seems you have followed correct attempts, picture was needed only to diagnosticate an unbootable system, so it's no really needed, which Mojave version do you have re-installed ? I don't have upgraded yet to the latest 10.14.1 so probably some kext/framework have slightly changed, probably they dropped some residual previous support to other old wifi/bt combo cards. Which was "last working build" you mentioned where your bluetooth was working correctly ? Anyway, waiting for a newer bluetooth patch a fix will be available in some way.
http://osxdaily.com/2018/09/26/fix-blurry-thin-fonts-text-macos-mojave/
I ran this script on my iMac non retina and looks way better.
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Ahh. Ok...gotcha. Yeah. it's booting fine, just don't have bluetooth.
I've got 10.14.1 (18B75) installed. I should have waited, I know better to see what other issues arise, but I was key happy and pulled the trigger. LOL.
The previous build I had running perfectly fine was 10.14.0 Final, build 18A391. I think I'll live using corded mouse and keyboard if I can't get into Screen Sharing like I normally do from my MBP.
Thanks again for your help thus far!
Cheers!
OTA updates are only offered via Software Update to APFS formatted installations.