Thanks Mate, this helped. I was not able to open the modified app, kept bouncing, thanks to this I was able.
Now let's see if the app works, mounting a bootable USB with Snow Leopard.
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Solution To El Capitan's New Disk Utility! Want the Old One Back?
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Now let's see if the app works, mounting a bootable USB with Snow Leopard.
Cheers
Thank you Navaira for the tip!! Works like a charm here! Great tool OP it's been a struggle using El Capitan's new crappy DU....But this is awesome! Thanks everyone.
I messed around with this version of Disk Utility and found that verify disk permissions and repair disk permissions were both greyed out for all the drives I tried.
Secondly, I used it to initialize a disk in HFS+ journaled and when using the drive, a few strange things happened.
1. Some applications set to write to the drive refused to do so until I changed the permissions on the drive to where everyone can read and write to it.
2. When I drag files to the trash from this drive, it would warn that the files would be deleted immediately rather than sit in the trash can until I emptied it.
Based on my short time using it, I would warn everyone to be very careful when using it. Since verify and repair disk permissions doesn't seem to be enabled, its usefulness is reduced to being able to easily make disk images and burn CD/DVDs (it can be done with the new Disk Utility too, but, in my opinion, in a less intuitive way). I would also suggest that if/when you need to initialize a drive, use the current version of Disk Utility to do it.
Secondly, I used it to initialize a disk in HFS+ journaled and when using the drive, a few strange things happened.
1. Some applications set to write to the drive refused to do so until I changed the permissions on the drive to where everyone can read and write to it.
2. When I drag files to the trash from this drive, it would warn that the files would be deleted immediately rather than sit in the trash can until I emptied it.
Based on my short time using it, I would warn everyone to be very careful when using it. Since verify and repair disk permissions doesn't seem to be enabled, its usefulness is reduced to being able to easily make disk images and burn CD/DVDs (it can be done with the new Disk Utility too, but, in my opinion, in a less intuitive way). I would also suggest that if/when you need to initialize a drive, use the current version of Disk Utility to do it.
[doublepost=1463232861][/doublepost]I downloaded the file but realised the permissions were wrong as was the ownership
I changed it to belonging to root and just for the heck of it I changed chmod to -R 777
Worked great
I had to get this done quickly as I was trying to fix my technologically handicapped in-law with her iMac
Thanks for the downloaded file, sure beats the heck out of getting into the hex code
Macs new permissions scheme, sucks. lack of a better more descriptive word
Back to my Solaris...much easier
No problem! My brother was able to fix it on his own machine, but it didn't work when transferred to mine. He may have done something similar to get it fixed on my machine. Keep the old DU on the side (you never know), but enjoy the good ol' one for now on. I really don't get why Apple insists upon screwing up their good existing applications, but at least we can avoid some of them. Anyway, hopefully others will have the same success under the method you used.
[doublepost=1463424438][/doublepost]Yeah, I am likely only going to use it if I really have to. I was actually concerned about the old DU coinciding with the new one and the OS's general nature of disk management. The new one isn't unbearable, so I'll just use it for basic tasks, such as initializing/formatting a disk.
Not sure what you are doing, but this patched version of Disk Utility works just fine for me in El-Cap.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/480-disk-utility-patched-v2/
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/480-disk-utility-patched-v2/
Same issue with mine. My brother was able to fix it, but I later had trouble with it when I updated to Sierra. I'm just gonna accept that the old DU is dead. Well, at least RAID utility is back.
