Any changes in 1.4.4 regarding the broken recovery partition installed on machines running the APFS ROM patch rather than the APFS Patch?
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Any changes in 1.4.4 regarding the broken recovery partition installed on machines running the APFS ROM patch rather than the APFS Patch?
Getting this error while trying to create a bootable installer:
Mounting BaseSystem.dmg...
/dev/disk5 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk5s1 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/basesystem
Patching BaseSystem.dmg...
hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk5" - Ressource ist belegt
Can anyone help?
Mounting BaseSystem.dmg...
/dev/disk5 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk5s1 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/basesystem
Patching BaseSystem.dmg...
hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk5" - Ressource ist belegt
Can anyone help?
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Is the "no photos tab" bug in Photos App still present for those who had it already on 10.15.4?
Thanx @dosdude1 once more!
Thanx @dosdude1 once more!
I still see version 1.4.3. Where can I download v1.4.4?
Sorry to bother with this again, but I just can't solve it.
Any ideas/suggestions with this? It happens with Pages on Catalina and on Mojave too:
Any ideas/suggestions with this? It happens with Pages on Catalina and on Mojave too:
- When I open a Pages file, it crashes whenever a "smart annotation" that i did on my iPad appears on screen. It just freezes Pages. It's the only thing that bothers me since I do quite a lot of this handwriting. If I hide the smart annotations I can see all the pages on the document normally and work. Naturally, this workaraound is not the best since I cannot edit them. Also, if even one small annotation is on the first page, the file does not even open.
successfully used 1.4.4 to install 10.15.5 via "on this mac" on imac11,1
Thanks for the information
Did a new clean install now without the APFS-Patch, but still getting the verbose text output while booting, not that bad, but a little annoying, would like it better without that Another behavior of my good old MBP5.1-friend which is really bad, is concerning the closing of the lid. Closing the lid keeps the MBP for approx. 1-2min running with high fans, and afterwards doing a reboot. While rebooting I get the message, that the computer was shut down unexpectedly etc.
Any idea for a solution here? Would be very glad, because I've sent back my new 13" MBP last week, because I want to wait another year before retiring my loyal friend
I see the problem with an older PowerPoint presentation on my MBP5,2 with 10.15.5. It makes much use of transitions.
Opening the same .pptx presentation in Keynote and running it there, is just fine.
Hope this is not a dumb question ... once you create a Catalina Pathcher usb bootable installer and succesfully update one Mac can you then use it again for another Mac or do you have to start the process all over again? In other words can you re-use the same usb bootable installer for more than one Mac? Thanks!
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Patcher v.1.4.4 observations - on a barefoot Mini3,1 (no EEPROM patch'd) the hideous 21+ second delay before the APFS patch ran is down to 3 seconds. Amount of avail RAM in dot 5 is the same as dot 4 after a reboot. CPU temps the same. Everything else seems to be identical to dot 4 in functionality. Haven't tried to copy or move a lot of files as yet, tho. Graphics performance is more than adequate, perhaps improved, slightly? So far, the BEST Catalina Patcher of the effort is v.1.4.4. YMMV
I know times may be difficult but this effort is truly worth your donations?
I know times may be difficult but this effort is truly worth your donations?
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As for the verbose text from the software APFS Patch:Thanks for the information
Another behavior of my good old MBP5.1-friend which is really bad, is concerning the closing of the lid. Closing the lid keeps the MBP for approx. 1-2min running with high fans, and afterwards doing a reboot. While rebooting I get the message, that the computer was shut down unexpectedly etc.
Any idea for a solution here? Would be very glad, because I've sent back my new 13" MBP last week, because I want to wait another year before retiring my loyal friend
First try in system settings->startup disk to select your disk again. This should keep it from going via EFI during boot.
You could do more and remove a left-over from the time where you didn't have the APFS ROM patch applied:
- in terminal do diskutil list and find the identifier of the EFI partition (likely disk0s1, see output from my system appended as example)
- sudo mkdir /Volumes/efi (error message should this volume already exist - ignore)
- sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/efi
then on the desktop you should see a drive named EFI. Open in Finder, and remove just the "BOOT" folder and "apfs.efi".
As for the sleep failure when closing the lid, I can just guess. Does it also happen when putting it to sleep from the Apple menu?
I had that a while ago often in Mojave. It helped to always use the faster of the two GPUs (9600M GT instead of 9400M). Hope your MBP5,1 has the same GPU hardware as MBP5,2.
In system settings->energy saver choose higher performance; need to logout/login after that, and then a reboot, for this to take effect. When resetting NVRAM though, the default 9400M will be used again, and 9600M GT needs to be selected again.
My MBP5,2 runs better and very reliably (no unexpected shutdowns at all) with the 9600M GT. Using it is highly recommended...
I'm quite confident that my good old MBP5,2 17" will make it for at least one more year!
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On my MBP 8.2 early 2011 with 10.15.5 Office 2019 fails. Deleted 16.29 and tried to install the newest, it also fails. Anybody knows what to do?
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I did. Download from github and that worked fine. This is great and everyone should donate! Thank you, dosdude1!
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To answer my own question, it does appear that command-R now boots into the recovery partition on patched 10.15.5 installed with Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 on a MacPro 3,1 with APFS ROM patch applied. Nice.
Installed 10.15.5 so easily on my MacBook pro (late 2011) 13-inch using @dosdude1 new update tool 1.4.4
Would it be possible for you to zip and upload an affected document?
I used the latest patcher and 10.15.5 installed no problem. After install I received message saying system kexts were over written do I want to reapply. I answered yes and it went through the installation process. No problem until the end where I clicked reboot. No matter what I tried, reboot or restart nothing happened. I had to use the power button. Is there a fix for this? I am using a MacBook Pro 5,1.
I'm about to use Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 to install Catalina 10.15.5 on my 15" MBP6,2 (with Solid State Drive).
I'm at the point that I have to delete the volume and reformat is APFS. When I installed 10.15.4, I named the volumes Catalina SSD. My question is, do I delete both Catalina Volumes? "Catalina SSD" and "Catalina SSD - Data"? If I keep the Data volume, will it keep all my data?
I'm at the point that I have to delete the volume and reformat is APFS. When I installed 10.15.4, I named the volumes Catalina SSD. My question is, do I delete both Catalina Volumes? "Catalina SSD" and "Catalina SSD - Data"? If I keep the Data volume, will it keep all my data?
