I tried this on my MacBook7,1 with Mojave and it seems to have improved Chrome's performance! Is this the intended outcome or just a placebo? Also, does it work on Catalina?
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It improves hardware video acceleration for non-metal gpu to optimize h264 videos, increasing framerates and I guess also Chrome WebGL web contents.
I'll include it macOS Patcher then. It does wonders on Google's web suite/Chrome! Does the patch support Catalina tho?
No, on Catalina it does not have effect.
Hi, is there a know sleep / wake problem by closing the lid/display?
If I put MacbookPro 2009 MBP 5,3 to sleep (by the menue sleep..) I can wake it without probs.
If I close (also) the display and then want to wake no reaction. I must press long the power button then normal start and message always tell some "crash happened..".
If I put MacbookPro 2009 MBP 5,3 to sleep (by the menue sleep..) I can wake it without probs.
If I close (also) the display and then want to wake no reaction. I must press long the power button then normal start and message always tell some "crash happened..".
Howdy All... I'm new to MacRumors so I hope I'm posting this in the right place!
I updated my 2009 MP a few days ago to 5,1, installing a Radeon 580 and upgrading to High Sierra and then Mojave. All went smoothly and everything is working fine except for horribly slow previews in the finder. When I open a folder and click on a file or hit the spacebar, it spins the wheel for up to 2 minutes before displaying a preview of the file. Double clicking a file opens it in the application just fine. This is driving me crazy when looking for a particular file.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I updated my 2009 MP a few days ago to 5,1, installing a Radeon 580 and upgrading to High Sierra and then Mojave. All went smoothly and everything is working fine except for horribly slow previews in the finder. When I open a folder and click on a file or hit the spacebar, it spins the wheel for up to 2 minutes before displaying a preview of the file. Double clicking a file opens it in the application just fine. This is driving me crazy when looking for a particular file.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It's EXTREMELY annoying. I can't stand visual bugs like this. I use this MacBook for gaming, mostly with modded Minecraft. I use Finder a lot and as a result often find myself emptying the trash bin a lot as well. I really, really, really need to find a way to fix this.
UPDATE: Fixed it by disabling transparency in Accessibility settings. Thank goodness I was able to find a fix...
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There's a fix for that.It involves replacing two frameworks: Hitoolbox and Skylight. Search the forum for hitoolbox or skylight
Oh sweet, there's a way to do it without disabling transparency? Heck yea, I'll try that.
I'm not sure about the acceleration benefits in Catalina, but the GVA patch definitely works in Catalina to get back the DVD player on all the NVIDIA 9400M / 320M laptops out there. I use it all the time, to the point where I rewrote the original script posted on here somewhere to work with Catalina. You DO have to sudo -s and mount -uw / before running the GVA patch on Catalina. If anyone needs it I can definitely post it here later.
Okay, I've applied the Hitoolbox fix, but I can't find the Skylight fix anywhere. The BlueSky command line tool didn't work. How do I fix Skylight without that?
How is the capability in terms of "install and forget" of Mojave or Catalina on an unsupported MacBook Pro (in my case a 15 inch from 2011). I'm thinking about giving such a device to a computer-inexperienced person. But I'm afraid an upcoming security update will create trouble with the patched Mojave / Catalina. Any advice?
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It depends. The patcher automates everything for experienced and inexperienced people alike. Updates break the patches(this is common sense), "install and forget" will only work after the very last security update in September 2021.
If you install Mojave on an HFS partition instead of an APFS one, it will always show there are no updates available, which will prevent them from doing any automatic updates which cause problems with the patched OS. The 2011 15” is a special case with all the failed video cards and the various workarounds for that, so once you get it working how you want it’s best to lock it down and leave it alone as much as possible.
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Hi everyone, new here and so appreciative of the work that's gone into allowing us to keep using our older macs at the highest level of functionality. However I have an issue that I couldn't find discussed in this thread or on the forum generally, hoping someone can shed some light on it. Some background:
I'm on a 2010 i7 MBP with the C9560 capacitor graphics issue, and have been using Julian Poivedin's software fix with stable results on 10.13 for a while. I've been backing up my internal SSD to an external HDD with Time Machine (a mistake to not simply have cloned, in retrospect). Curiosity getting the better of me, I recently upgraded to Mojave using the updater patches and a partition of the HDD as a bootable installer. After a few hiccups that I attributed to triggering the graphics problem and causing panics during installation, I was able to successfully update to Mojave (not a clean install) and used it for a week or two uneventfully.
Where I fear I really pushed the envelope was a foolhardy attempt to bump to Catalina after such smooth sailing (thanks to many of you here) with Mojave. I performed a single Time Machine backup and went about it, again with success using the patcher. However the cooling fans didn't love the constant graphics acceleration of this and that, and I found the software graphics fix to be inconsistent, so I decided to revert.
Long story long, I have run into the same issue upon restoring my machine from both Mojave and High Sierra backups, which is that my entire Photos library is nonexistent upon completing the restore each time. This is a 50+ GB set of files that has seemingly vanished.
I did open photos during my time running Mojave, prompting it to "update" or optimize, and my main guess as to the issue is regarding the file system structure and issues between backing up my internal APFS drive to an HDD (formatted as Mac OS Extended) and then attempting to restore. From all appearances when going through the restoration process, the backups intend to fully replace the photos library I had ~30 GB free space on my machine prior to all of this. However upon completion I'm left with closer to 100 GB free space and no photos library. Inspecting the backup folders on the HDD each of them now has no trace of a photos.library whatsoever, which needless to say is very worrying. All the other files including files within pictures remain unscathed, even my monstrous itunes library makes the jump without apparent issue.
Apologies for the long comment, searching for any leads to hopefully still recover decades of photos, as I foolishly played around expecting my backup to perform well and instead Time Machine has not had my back.
I'm on a 2010 i7 MBP with the C9560 capacitor graphics issue, and have been using Julian Poivedin's software fix with stable results on 10.13 for a while. I've been backing up my internal SSD to an external HDD with Time Machine (a mistake to not simply have cloned, in retrospect). Curiosity getting the better of me, I recently upgraded to Mojave using the updater patches and a partition of the HDD as a bootable installer. After a few hiccups that I attributed to triggering the graphics problem and causing panics during installation, I was able to successfully update to Mojave (not a clean install) and used it for a week or two uneventfully.
Where I fear I really pushed the envelope was a foolhardy attempt to bump to Catalina after such smooth sailing (thanks to many of you here) with Mojave. I performed a single Time Machine backup and went about it, again with success using the patcher. However the cooling fans didn't love the constant graphics acceleration of this and that, and I found the software graphics fix to be inconsistent, so I decided to revert.
Long story long, I have run into the same issue upon restoring my machine from both Mojave and High Sierra backups, which is that my entire Photos library is nonexistent upon completing the restore each time. This is a 50+ GB set of files that has seemingly vanished.
I did open photos during my time running Mojave, prompting it to "update" or optimize, and my main guess as to the issue is regarding the file system structure and issues between backing up my internal APFS drive to an HDD (formatted as Mac OS Extended) and then attempting to restore. From all appearances when going through the restoration process, the backups intend to fully replace the photos library I had ~30 GB free space on my machine prior to all of this. However upon completion I'm left with closer to 100 GB free space and no photos library. Inspecting the backup folders on the HDD each of them now has no trace of a photos.library whatsoever, which needless to say is very worrying. All the other files including files within pictures remain unscathed, even my monstrous itunes library makes the jump without apparent issue.
Apologies for the long comment, searching for any leads to hopefully still recover decades of photos, as I foolishly played around expecting my backup to perform well and instead Time Machine has not had my back.
do you have a backup of your photo's in iCloud ? if so you could try and hold I believe it is control-option when opening the Photo's app that should repair and download photos from iCloud
Unfortunately no, no iCloud backup. I've attempted to repair the library with command+option however it failed since, the issue seems to be not a corrupted library but no library at all.
Hello, are there scripts available to remove all patches for Mojave patcher?
If not all at least how to remove the gpu patch on a 2010 Mac mini?
If not all at least how to remove the gpu patch on a 2010 Mac mini?
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Still Thank You! But I have not been able to install the "SecUpd2020-004Mojave". Cruised right through 1-3, but 4 fails 2/3rds of the way through the installation. But it does get that far through . . .
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THANK YOU!!! so very much for this guide. I have been playing with Mōjāv and Catalina for some time and finally got the bug to migrate from 10.12.6 and installed 10.14.6 on my 3,1 and may take my 7,1 MBP there eventually. But since it runs Sierra natively which was a nice surprise, I may hold off.
After all was said and done(ish) on the initial Migration to APFS partitions, where it would just not boot unlike 10.14.4, I started seeing that there were these SecUpdates that I don't get organically that I had to deal with also. After a ton of research on what all was/is out there as far as the updates. With your "Excellent" guide I converted SU 001-3 all at once and then was able to easily apply them.
Got them all installed but wasn't expecting the multiple reboots after having to update re-installed Patches (expected the first reboot as I have done in earlier OSs in the past when I got the updates through the App Store) and then more Patch updates and reboots. Things start up slower, but once up and running all is well(ish) on a brand new 2TB 7200RPM Drive. Except for a couple things like a bit of lag every so often with certain 32bit Apps. No big deal, nothing I have to do these days are as harried as it was before the lock down.
But with these great forums and guides like yours, I can completely install all this and play, as I use to in my sleep, with my newly aging and half asleep brain.
Thank You! All!
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I would just download and install the latest Security Update. This should override the patches and give you an original Mojave installation.
Interesting! I would've thought the Patcher in System Preferences pane would allow me to right click and uninstall or there would be some documented way to remove each one. Thing is I am already at the latest patch. Maybe reinstalling Mojave from over the existing one will work?
Patcher does not save the files it replaces. "No do overs in Vegas". Installing the SU will refresh your install, why do you need a complete Mojave reinstall?
That is exactly what I did on my 7,1 MBP after cloning my 3,1 10.12.6 install and realized that 10.12.x would run natively. BUT since the early days of OSX, I have been rerunning the "Combo" Installers over the top of an existing install when it starts to get wonky. And they do, it refreshes it right up. Especially after installing an app or suite of apps.
This has been a blessing since way back at the dawn of OSX when we were just learning to use fire. And once I confirmed that you can rerun an installer over the top of an existing install and that the results were severely positive, while I was on hold with Apple Tech Support, in those days we could talk to Tech Support on the phone but it could take a while to get an answer, trying to find out if this could be done, I decided to go for it and found out "It Worked!" and very nicely. When the Tech finally came back on the line, He told me no one on his tier (3) had any idea if it could. I told him that it could be done with nice results. They thought that was interesting. Within a couple months I started seeing Tech Reps in the Forums recommend doing this as a step in trouble shooting.
These days I still do it, but have to use the Patcher Installer USB that sits at the ready. You do need to rerun the Patches. But then those are fresh too.
I'm considering upgrading my 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 with 12GB RAM, 2.2GHz 8 Cores (now a 5,1 after an upgrade to a 5870 and change of firmware) to use a ATI 580 graphics card.
Would this be compatible? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MP1012R580V/
I've read that it may be possible to do this as long as I keep my ATI 5870 in there also.
Do folks recommend upgrading RAM also, perhaps up to 16GB? I have one spare slot. My HD is already upgraded to SSD.
I assume I can just follow instructions in the original post here?
Would this be compatible? https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MP1012R580V/
I've read that it may be possible to do this as long as I keep my ATI 5870 in there also.
Do folks recommend upgrading RAM also, perhaps up to 16GB? I have one spare slot. My HD is already upgraded to SSD.
I assume I can just follow instructions in the original post here?