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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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avz said:
You probably don't see it right now but this is actually an indication of something positive. Apple recently seems to "give back to the old fans" as some things started to work OOB on unsupported Macs. Quite a few people mentioned that they did not have to re-patch anything after the 10.14.6 Supplemental Update. So keep in mind that the patches can start working against you as updates roll in. It would be wise after the update to check first if something started working OOB before applying patches.
The primary benefit of the Mojave patcher(for my MacBook5,1 at least) is only seen when doing a clean install. All I really need from the Mojave installer is to bypass the checks and allow an installation on APFS on a machine that does not support APFS natively.
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We are mostly talking first time downloads here. Actually when I downloaded Mojave and High Sierra from the App Store they did not appear in "Purchased" afterwards, so something is changing.
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When Apple introduced Sierra they stopped the OS appearing in the Purchased section of the App Store, you could still download earlier OS's if you had downloaded them previously. With Mojave no previously downloaded OS's appear in your Account> Purchased section.
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avz said:
I am not sure what I am doing wrong but it says El Capitan is not available. I might need to install Mavericks or Yosemite first in order to get El Capitan(I tried to do it from the Snow Leopard but it says that for security reasons you can't access or update your billing info from the old Mac OS X). Keep in mind that El Capitan is Mac OS X, but even Sierra while being macOS is still hard to get.

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If the App Store detects that your Mac can upgrade higher than El Capitan you are refused the download of El Capitan.
 
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GarryB said:
Can you provide example links ? I've not had any luck.
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https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201475 Mojave

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969 High Sierra

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 Sierra

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206886 El Capitan

Mavericks and Yosemite are no longer available for download, unless you 'purchased' them when they were available and they will appear in the Purchased section of the App Store, but not sadly if you are on Mojave.
Lion and Mountain Lion can still be bought from the online Apple Shop.
I am not sure about Snow Leopard.
 
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L Caputo said:
If the App Store detects that your Mac can upgrade higher than El Capitan you are refused the download of El Capitan.
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My MacBook5,1 is only supported up to El Capitan, but I have no problems downloading Mojave and High Sierra from the App Store. See the irony?

P.S. Respect to Apple for admitting indirectly that MacBook5,1 is better off with Mojave or High Sierra rather than El Capitan.

P.S.2. No miracles here. Czo's software update patch might be the reason.
 
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10.14.6 supplemental update OTA froze on
Macbook Air 4.2 (2011).
In the meanwhile I updated my USB-Patcher stick, and then reinstalled from there. (18G87)

Added Aug 14: 10.14.6 supplemental update OTA worked fine and fast on iMac 9.1 (2009)without need to reinstall patches. Added later: After noticing some sluggishness I reinstalled the patches from USB stick, which solved all problems.
 
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avz said:
My MacBook5,1 is only supported up to El Capitan, but I have no problems downloading Mojave and High Sierra from the App Store. See the irony?

P.S. Respect to Apple for admitting indirectly that MacBook5,1 is better off with Mojave or High Sierra rather than El Capitan.

P.S.2. No miracles here. Czo's software update patch might be the reason.
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If your Mac is already running a newer OS you will be refused El Capitan.
If I boot my MacPro 3.1 to Snow Leopard it will download El Capitan, if I boot to Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave it won't let me download El Capitan.
 
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L Caputo said:
If your Mac is already running a newer OS you will be refused El Capitan.
If I boot my MacPro 3.1 to Snow Leopard it will download El Capitan, if I boot to Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave it won't let me download El Capitan.
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Not so fast. I tried Snow Leopard. Apple does not allow older OS's access your billing info for security reasons.

P.S. As I said previously you might need a Mavericks or Yosemite to download El Capitan. I confirmed Mavericks can download El Capitan from the App Store.
 
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avz said:
Not so fast. I tried Snow Leopard. Apple does not allow older OS's access your billing info for security reasons.
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I think you have to update your billing info from a newer OS then boot back to Snow Leopard, and then you should be able to upgrade to El Capitan.
 
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avz said:
There is more to it, Apple introduced changes since June 2018. I already updated my info since I am using App Store with Mojave.
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What 'more to it' is it. Perhaps you could take it up with Apple, pointing out that in their own support articles
that in order to upgrade your Mac from Snow Leopard to Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave the intermediate step of upgrading via free El Capitan or upgrade via the purchase of Lion or Mountain Lion depending which OS you might want to upgrade to. But your experience with El Capitan is that you cannot download it.

Ok so it's brekkie time here, bacon rolls., brown sauce and hot sugary tea.
 
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L Caputo said:
What 'more to it' is it. Perhaps you could take it up with Apple, pointing out that in their own support articles
that in order to upgrade your Mac from Snow Leopard to Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave the intermediate step of upgrading via free El Capitan or upgrade via the purchase of Lion or Mountain Lion depending which OS you might want to upgrade to. But your experience with El Capitan is that you cannot download it.

Ok so it's brekkie time here, bacon rolls., brown sauce and hot sugary tea.
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Haha. After Apple already gave me Mojave and High Sierra through the App Store(and I have a feeling I will be able to get Catalina as well on official release day), I would not have the nerve to take anything up with them. I would say good riddance to El Capitan and Sierra.
 
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alphascorp said:
Hi everybody,
10.14.6 supplemental update (18G87) performed successfully on MBP5,3 with "macOSUpd10.14.6Supplemental.pkg" without any patching.



After updating iMac8,1 with "macOSUpd10.14.6Supplemental.pkg" the system was very slow even after patched patches.
I had to recreate a USB key with a complete Patch Installer 10.14.6 with an additional built-in update and re-install the complete system.
After the first boot the system was OK but after re-applying patches with "Patch Updater.app" the system became very slow, more than 15 minutes to display the desktop ...
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I did 3 installs ("macOS Post Install", "Force Cache rebuild",) and each time, after reboot everything worked fine but after "Patch Updater.app" update and reboot (very long ) I get a black screen with only the mouse pointer.
After the fourth installation, "macOS Post Install", "Force Cache rebuild", update "Patch Updater.app" everything works fine and the system seems to run at normal speed and the black screen disappeared.

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I tried using Mavericks on an external HDD connected to the MacBook5,1 via USB2.0 and I have to say WOW. Mavericks destroys Mojave and High Sierra(both running on SSD via SATAII) without even breaking a sweat. Needless to say I feel a bit discouraged at this point. Perhaps I don't see the whole picture. I guess the hardware must match the OS, there is no way around it. Sorry for being off topic.
 
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saudor said:
did you use a supplemental update? that seems to happen to me before with those updates. It’s better to make a full USB and install on top
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Yes I used. But after that I got memory problem and then make a full USB and install on top :D
 
Hi All, I need some assistance to an issue - that might be simple - but I cannot find the solution.
I have a MacBookPro8,2 running 10.14.6 with latest patches.

Whenever I put the computer to sleep, either by closing the lid og by selecting sleep - I cannot wake it again.
I do get the backlights in the keys, but the screen stays black.

This seems to have started with Legacy Graphics driver version 7. IIRC it was good with version 6.

Is there a solution to this?
 
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