I had that a while ago. It is a matter of formating the columns of the table - some were too wide by default, so others didn‘t fit in the window.
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No issues with either Excel or Word (16.37) on my MP5,1 running Catalina 10.15.5 from Dosdue1 1.4.4 patcher. Could this be Macbook specific error with both crashing?
Congratulations, hacker-girls are rare
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No issues with either Excel or Word (16.36) on my Macmini4,1 running Catalina 10.15.5 from Dosdude1 1.4.4 patcher.
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With 10.15.5, is airdrop not supported with the patch updater? I've been seeing a number of threads of different methods to enable airdrop and/or continuity on unsupported catalinas. Not sure which one to follow for Macbook Air Mid 2011 13 inch.
Thanks a lot for your reply, K two. My explanation was a bit unclear: The SSD showed up in disc utility, but it could not be activated (it was greyed out). Strangely, a day later I could boot without any problem again.
Should I have installed High Sierra first before installing Catalina? I‘m using a MacBook Pro 5,3 Mid 2009 with an internal SSD formatted in APFS (coming from El Capitan). The patcher was version 1.4.
I am running Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5 without problems so far, using of course dosdude's 1.4.4 patcher.
I have an MacBookPro 8,1 where both are not working (Word and Excel 16.37).Congratulations, hacker-girls are rare
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No issues with either Excel or Word (16.36) on my Macmini4,1 running Catalina 10.15.5 from Dosdude1 1.4.4 patcher.
I downloaded Word Insider Fast 16.38 but this version is also not working.
Hello I am new here, and I hope I can get some help for solving some After-Install Issues.
First of all kudos to dosdude and his helpers for all their work, saving this nice but old machines from becoming useless.
I have a MacbookPro 4.1 early 2008 and tried some installs till now.
With the aktual 1.4.4 Release I made a clean install on an 500gb SSD.
As in HighSierra and Mojave, there all the following (afaik wellknown) bugs:
- Brightness Keys show up with the symbol on Screen, but no change of Brightness. This could be fixed through installing Brightness Slider from App-Store. Brightness Slider in the Monitor-Controlpanel is still missing
- Trackpad not recognized, but working. No solution yet to change settings. I want to configure right-click and tapping. Maybe if i can find someone who lends me one external trackpad, I could change, but maybe someone has a workaround for that?
- Keyboard-Backlight is working in HighSierra and Mojave, but not in Catalina. Thats a big set-back, anybody has a solution for that?
First of all kudos to dosdude and his helpers for all their work, saving this nice but old machines from becoming useless.
I have a MacbookPro 4.1 early 2008 and tried some installs till now.
With the aktual 1.4.4 Release I made a clean install on an 500gb SSD.
As in HighSierra and Mojave, there all the following (afaik wellknown) bugs:
- Brightness Keys show up with the symbol on Screen, but no change of Brightness. This could be fixed through installing Brightness Slider from App-Store. Brightness Slider in the Monitor-Controlpanel is still missing
- Trackpad not recognized, but working. No solution yet to change settings. I want to configure right-click and tapping. Maybe if i can find someone who lends me one external trackpad, I could change, but maybe someone has a workaround for that?
- Keyboard-Backlight is working in HighSierra and Mojave, but not in Catalina. Thats a big set-back, anybody has a solution for that?
Anybody knows how to get the latest EFI update 68.0.0.0.0 for the white MacBook Mid 2010?
Eg: Apple Inc. MacBook7,1/Mac-F22C89C8, BIOS 68.0.0.0.0 06/14/2019
I am currently running MB71.88Z.003F.B00.1802022149, which supposedly shouldn't work with APFS (but I see no issues)?
Eg: Apple Inc. MacBook7,1/Mac-F22C89C8, BIOS 68.0.0.0.0 06/14/2019
I am currently running MB71.88Z.003F.B00.1802022149, which supposedly shouldn't work with APFS (but I see no issues)?
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After a reboot, now both programs are working: Word Insider Fast 16.38 and Excel 16.37.
I don't really know what happened
Same with Microsoft Edge. It seems like some App certificate stuff is cached, and only gets released after a shutdown.After a reboot, now both programs are working: Word Insider Fast 16.38 and Excel 16.37.
I don't really know what happened
EDIT: I was able to install 10.15.5 with Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 using the "Install to This Machine" option. What's weird is that it installed with out losing any of my data. I thought I wasn't able to do that. (previously had 10.5.4/1.4.3 patcher on my MBP)
I'll be checking it out and posting anything that's not working correctly.
Original Post: I created my bootable drive with Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 to install Catalina 10.15.5 on my 15" MBP6,2 (with Solid State Drive). I currently dual boot it 10.15.4 and High Sierra 10.13.6
I restarted my laptop and hit alt/option. I was able to boot off the drive, got the apple logo with status bar then the image below.
I tried a different flash drive, same outcome. I tries to use it on a MacBook Air (natively supports Catalina) and I was able to get to the screen with install, disk utility, etc.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I'll be checking it out and posting anything that's not working correctly.
Original Post: I created my bootable drive with Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 to install Catalina 10.15.5 on my 15" MBP6,2 (with Solid State Drive). I currently dual boot it 10.15.4 and High Sierra 10.13.6
I restarted my laptop and hit alt/option. I was able to boot off the drive, got the apple logo with status bar then the image below.
I tried a different flash drive, same outcome. I tries to use it on a MacBook Air (natively supports Catalina) and I was able to get to the screen with install, disk utility, etc.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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Anybody able to use the new Battery Health Management feature in 10.15.5? It's supposed to be in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences, but I don't see it in mine (MBP 8,1 early 2011 13"). Used patcher 1.4.4 to install update via USB. Everything else is working as expected.
That will work on any MacBook with Thunderbolt 3 ports (or later, in the future).
If you have one of these MacBooks, you are probably not using these patchers, since Catalina already runs out of the box.
Hello everyone,
would like some help in two things that is happening with me and at least another user,
First I have tried most recent patcher on a MacBook Pro 17" from early 2011, and the FaceTime camera doesn't work, opens up and glitches, it works fine in Mojave also pathed and in High Sierra Officially supported, so it's definitely not a hardware issue,
the second situation is a little more complicated, my AMD 6750 HD is working fine so I don’t want to disable It, I use it in windows 10 for some light gaming and autocad tools.
in mojave I use the " gswitch " app to force Mojave to only use intel 3000 so I have full graphics acceleration, although it recognizes the AMD but I know it has no graphics acceleration from Mojave forward.
unfortunately " gswitch " or "igfx" do not work in macOS Catalina. So to my limited knowledge on the matter I have no way to force Macos Catalina to only use the integrated intel 3000, it only wants to use the dedicated Amd with no full acceleration...
so my question is, is there a terminal command or some other miracle app to force macOS Catalina to only use the integrated graphics???
thanks in advance for the help!
would like some help in two things that is happening with me and at least another user,
First I have tried most recent patcher on a MacBook Pro 17" from early 2011, and the FaceTime camera doesn't work, opens up and glitches, it works fine in Mojave also pathed and in High Sierra Officially supported, so it's definitely not a hardware issue,
the second situation is a little more complicated, my AMD 6750 HD is working fine so I don’t want to disable It, I use it in windows 10 for some light gaming and autocad tools.
in mojave I use the " gswitch " app to force Mojave to only use intel 3000 so I have full graphics acceleration, although it recognizes the AMD but I know it has no graphics acceleration from Mojave forward.
unfortunately " gswitch " or "igfx" do not work in macOS Catalina. So to my limited knowledge on the matter I have no way to force Macos Catalina to only use the integrated intel 3000, it only wants to use the dedicated Amd with no full acceleration...
so my question is, is there a terminal command or some other miracle app to force macOS Catalina to only use the integrated graphics???
thanks in advance for the help!
What macOS are you installing?
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This may be what you are seeking? https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/Q...BNAcWWQoERg4q2J1kuQL/OfficialAPFSFWUpdate.zip From the @dosdude1 website.
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Another success with dosdude1 patch 1.4.4 and Catalina 10.15.5 with:
Mac Pro 3,1 (GTX680 graphics)
Mac Pro 3,1 (GeForce 8800 graphics)
MacBook 5,1
IMac 8,1
I can’t upgrade my Mac Mini 4,1 since the hard drive is dying and the Apple installer won’t install to a drive with S.M.A.R.T. errors. But it looks like I’m going to have to retire the machine since I can’t run the program I’ve been using it for since OpenGL bugs are a big problem with 320m graphics in these machines.
Mac Pro 3,1 (GTX680 graphics)
Mac Pro 3,1 (GeForce 8800 graphics)
MacBook 5,1
IMac 8,1
I can’t upgrade my Mac Mini 4,1 since the hard drive is dying and the Apple installer won’t install to a drive with S.M.A.R.T. errors. But it looks like I’m going to have to retire the machine since I can’t run the program I’ve been using it for since OpenGL bugs are a big problem with 320m graphics in these machines.
As stated above, I was able to install 10.15.5 with Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 using the "Install to This Machine" option.
One thing, I can't enable Safari Extensions. I was REALLY hoping to enable them.
One thing, I can't enable Safari Extensions. I was REALLY hoping to enable them.
I’ve just ran Swift Playgrounds in macOS and found that many of the graphical playground books to not function. The error message was always:
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t my code’s problem since I’ve downloaded these and run it without modifications.
These playground books have been tested to not work on a patched Catalina:
There was a problem running this page.
Check your code for problems. If you are stuck, start
over to delete all your changes on this page and try
again.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t my code’s problem since I’ve downloaded these and run it without modifications.
These playground books have been tested to not work on a patched Catalina:
- Sonic Workshop (Swift 5.1)
- Sonic Create (Swift 5.1)
- Blu’s Adventure (Swift 5.1)
- Graphing (Swift 5.1)
- Blank (and added a simple “print hello world” statement).
- Playgrounds 3.3 (1167.17)
- macOS Catalina 10.15.5 (19F96)
- Catalina Patcher 1.4.4
- MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2011
Unfortunately, it looks like they're drawn with Metal (seeSure, I made one just for the occasion.
Test file + Crash log file
P.s: I can quick look the file but the annotations doesn't show. On the other hand Pages on the web shows them correctly.
Thx!
PKMetalRenderer _renderStrokes: ... in the PencilKit framework) so there won't be an easy solution. I did find a hack that seems to let you view the annotations though (love the text lol):If you want to try it, steps are as follows:
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Show Package Contents on the Pages file- If this option doesn't exist, rename it to end with
.zip and extract, then try again (Pages files can be either packages or zipped packages, strangely enough)- Go into the
Data folder and delete any files starting with PencilAnnotationLegacyData or PencilAnnotationData (not the PencilAnnotationImage files though).At least on your test document, that seemed to correct the issue. Presumably, the data files allow the annotations to be edited, but require Metal to display, but the PNGs can be used as a fallback to show the annotation. Not 100% sure though, as I don't have a newer device to test on.
Hope that helps! Sorry there is no magical patch to restore full functionality. Metal requirements are near-impossible to work around
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I actually worked on this a while back (guy on Reddit reported the same issue) but I couldn't figure out a solution.
Basically, there are two SceneKit frameworks, one for regular Mac apps, and one for Catalyst apps. The former has an OpenGL fallback mode, the latter does not. Playground is ported from iOS, so guess which one it uses...
I made some attempts to inject code into Playgrounds and swizzle SceneKit functions to replace them with my own, which I planned to redirect to the Mac SceneKit. However, the
UI* and NS* classes wouldn't play nicely together and I didn't make much progress.I'm bored as hell so I'll take another stab at it. Don't hold your breath though; I'm pretty new to Objective-C. Perhaps someone more experienced can give it a try if I fail again.
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I am trying to make a bootable USB drive to install on my Macs. I typically install on my MBP5.5 and after everything checks out, do the installation on my main machine MP5.1.
I tried making the USB installer on my MP5.1 which is running 10.15.4 on an APFS volume and the target USB drive is 32GB APFS drive.
But now I am not able to make the install USB. I get an error:
"Restoring BaseSystem.dmg...
Validating target...done
Validating source...done
APFS volume cannot be the target of restores unless the source is also APFS."
What am I doing wrong?
I wonder how Maps and Photos were made to work. I thought it was a Metal-emulation driver of some sort.