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Installing 10.4/10.5 on a Mac with a broken/or incompatible optical drive
Leopard (10.5) is only available on DVD. Tiger (10.4) is available on DVD and there was a limited time media exchange program available on CD as well. If you can't get the media exchange program CDs you will need a DVD drive to install Tiger. By default you need a DVD drive to install Leopard.In addition, Leopard requires a Mac with an 867 Mhz or greater processor and officially 512 MB of RAM but it works better with 1 GB of RAM. Tiger requires a Mac with Firewire built-in (not PCI/PCMCIA cards...
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Macs capable of booting Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 without special help
do not come with a DVD drive, though some Firewire drives should potentially be able to boot Leopard. Consult with the Firewire DVD drive manufacturer after October 26th, 2007 to find out if yours does. According to http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/ these Macs are excluded: All G3 Macs. G4 Macs up through 800 Mhz including: iMacs models M8672LL/B, M7677LL/B, M8535LL/B, M8812LL/A, M9105LL/A iBook model M9164LL/A PowerMac G4s with graphite (looks like dark blue), Cubes, and QuickSilver models...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
Hello and welcome to my User Tip.This user tip is designed for experienced users who want Snow Leopard (10.6) Mac's to run at their absolute fastest possible. It's a series of easy hacks, browser preferences and rebuild, hardware advice for maximizing your Snow Leopard Mac's performance.This is NOT designed for OS X 10.7 or later operating systems, sorry. Upgrading OS X from 10.6.8 to 10.7/10.8 will not make it faster.This is not designed as a repair system, although software fixes...
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Rosetta/PowerPC Applications and Lion and above
This tip was copied and updated from:https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295#ROSETTALION for easier access to this informationFirst off if you have a Mac which shipped with 10.6.8 or earlier, you can restore 10.6 to a separate partition (has directions for making a partition), or external hard drive or flash drive if you need to keep running PowerPC applications. You will need the original installer discs, or if your Mac is older than March 15, 2010, you can use the 10.6.3 retail disc...
in  Earlier Operating Systems  by  a brody
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Installing Front Row in Lion
Front Row - how to move this application from Snow Leopard to Lion:If (and only if) you still have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed, for example if you have dual boot, and you want to install Front Row in Lion 10.7.5, you need to move some files from the Snow Leopard Library to the Lion Library.For unknown reasons, Apple decided to make the libraries in Lion invisible, so you will have to make them visible before you can do this. There are two ways of doing this:1. Press Option as open the Go menu...
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Installing Front Row in Lion
Front Row - how to move this application from Snow Leopard to Lion:If (and only if) you still have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed, for example if you have dual boot, and you want to install Front Row in Lion 10.7.5, you need to move some files from the Snow Leopard Library to the Lion Library.For unknown reasons, Apple decided to make the libraries in Lion invisible, so you will have to make them visible before you can do this. There are two ways of doing this:1. Press Option as open the Go menu...
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Classic, Rosetta, and 32/64 bit revisited.
, the third party language translation and teaching software of nearly the same name.Snow Leopard offers 64 bit computing for some applications and the operating system itself. This can affect which peripherals and applications will run. Rosetta is not available on Mac OS X 10.7 or higher.The limitations of both are outlined below:1. Can Snow Leopard run software written for PowerPC Macs?Yes, if it was written for Mac OS X and does not require contextual menu plugins, PowerPC plugins, or PowerPC drivers...
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How to Install Leopard Troublefree
Tips on 10.2 Jaguar, 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard (End of the line for PowerPC Macs), 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks,10.10 Yosemite, and 10.11 El CapitanNote: this tip, and the series of tips I've written from 10.3 to 10.9 all refer to Mac OS X client. The server edition may have different limitations. Please ask on the appropriate Server forum if you are interested in Mac OS X Server.Mac OS X Sierra, to be released September 20, 2016 is the first...
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A fresh tip for 10.6 installation software available
Before you install anything, backup your data. August 28, 2009 Mac OS 10.6 was released March 15, 2010 Apple released the 10.6.3 retail installer disc that looks like and does not say drop-in/oem, or upgrade on it. Any Mac older than it but newer than January 7, 2006 can use it. Macs newer than this disc but older than Lion that did not have internet recovery firmware installed must use the original installer disc that shipped with them, or a hard drive that has the newer operating system...
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kmosx: Installation options and their meaning
Before any of these procedures is attempted, at least two backups are important to preserve your data. And to be even safer, shut down and remove the backup media from your machine before continuing, as some media get upset when being connected during an update process. Clean install is not any Mac OS X's installation option. Snow Leopard adds a new twist, in that there isn't an Archive and Install per se. For Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.5 there is an Archive and Install. If you hear people say...
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kmosx5: Dashboard Widget Bug
Hello Everyone, I have seen questions on the forums regarding the widget bug numerous times (only in Leopard). I am a victim of this, and have finally found a solution. Most often, the issue is triggered with activating Parental Controls. All or most of your dashboard widgets will not work...until now! Here is the fix: About the Archive and Install FeatureThose are instructions on how to perform an Archive and Install. That is precisely the fix. But you must remember: *Preserve Accounts...
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Mac OS X 10.6 Server available by phone order
MC588Z/A is the U.S. product identifier for Mac OS X 10.6 Server. It no longer is available from Apple directly. However a quick search of the internet should help you locate who does sell it.10.6 Server can be very handy for those who need a version of Mac OS X with Rosetta to function on newer Macs with newer operating systems, as this tip explains:https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6841...
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Quicken for Lion and Mountain Lion.
on accounts. It appears that even with Quicken for Lion's release, those with Quicken 2004 or earlier files, have to take additional steps. Those steps were nicely summarized for me by MichaelLAX as the following: 1. While still in Snow Leopard, download Quicken 2006 PPC from Intuit: http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/patching/quicken-2006-manual-updates--mac -/GEN82200.html 2. Open your 2004 or older data file in Quicken 2006 PPC and it will convert the data file. 3. You may now open this converted...
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A quicker look at retail installer discs
If you were just looking for what the retail installer discs looked like, I have taken the information from this tip to help out:Can I download my Mac OS upgrade? Mac OS 7.6 Mac OS 8.0 & 8.1 (see fine print) Mac OS 8.5 and 8.5.1 Mac OS 8.6. Mac OS 9.0. 9.0.2, 9.0.4, 9.1, and 9.2.1 Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac OS X 10.4 TigerMac OS X 10.5 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardSome of these disks that have the same label may say Update, Dropin...
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High Sierra upgrading tip
This tip is part of a series of tips for the client editions of Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11El Capitan 10.12 Sierra, and 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), and 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client edition. A new tip, which affects all High Sierra and older OS users: Microsoft Office 2019 High Sierra Support… - Apple Community Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac, need...
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AppleWorks for the modern day, a migration tip
Some questions people have about AppleWorks moving to modern Macs are answered here:1. Does AppleWorks work on Intel Macs? Yes.2. Does AppleWorks work on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8), Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9), Yosemite (10.10), or El Capitan (10.11)? Not directly.Conversion to compatible formats (mentioned in question 7 below) before installing Lion, or attaching a bootable external hard drive and installing Snow Leopard or earlier on it and installing Appleworks...
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kichat: Can My Mac Be Made To Work With iChatAV ?
linked earlier you need a Mac over a certain Spec (G4/1Ghz Dual) to be able to Host Video chats. (plus Internet Speed). Ecamm came to people's rescue again with PowerBoost if your Mac does not reach those specs. Leopard 10.5In Leopard the criteria is also for a mac of a certain spec before you even start, This is a G4/867Mghz processor. If you have problems then see this Apple Doc There is also some evidence that this helps other macs with the same message even if not this spec machine...
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How to install Mac OS X Lion 10.7
Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is available for older systems that are not compatible with the latest version of macOS. 1. Check compatibility Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later or Mac OS X Lion 10.7 already installed 2GB of memory 7GB of available storage space You can install Mac OS X Lion on any of these Macs. The latest supported software version is noted next to each model. See the Technical Specifications for the full list of requirements. MacBook Learn how to identify your MacBook. MacBook (13...
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    Installing 10.4/10.5 on a Mac with a broken/or incompatible optical drive
    Leopard (10.5) is only available on DVD. Tiger (10.4) is available on DVD and there was a limited time media exchange program available on CD as well. If you can't get the media exchange program CDs you will need a DVD drive to install Tiger. By default you need a DVD drive to install Leopard.In addition, Leopard requires a Mac with an 867 Mhz or greater processor and officially 512 MB of RAM but it works better with 1 GB of RAM. Tiger requires a Mac with Firewire built-in (not PCI/PCMCIA cards...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    Macs capable of booting Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 without special help
    do not come with a DVD drive, though some Firewire drives should potentially be able to boot Leopard. Consult with the Firewire DVD drive manufacturer after October 26th, 2007 to find out if yours does. According to http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/ these Macs are excluded: All G3 Macs. G4 Macs up through 800 Mhz including: iMacs models M8672LL/B, M7677LL/B, M8535LL/B, M8812LL/A, M9105LL/A iBook model M9164LL/A PowerMac G4s with graphite (looks like dark blue), Cubes, and QuickSilver models...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
    Hello and welcome to my User Tip.This user tip is designed for experienced users who want Snow Leopard (10.6) Mac's to run at their absolute fastest possible. It's a series of easy hacks, browser preferences and rebuild, hardware advice for maximizing your Snow Leopard Mac's performance.This is NOT designed for OS X 10.7 or later operating systems, sorry. Upgrading OS X from 10.6.8 to 10.7/10.8 will not make it faster.This is not designed as a repair system, although software fixes...
    Latest update on the question by ds store in Earlier Operating Systems
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    Rosetta/PowerPC Applications and Lion and above
    This tip was copied and updated from:https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295#ROSETTALION for easier access to this informationFirst off if you have a Mac which shipped with 10.6.8 or earlier, you can restore 10.6 to a separate partition (has directions for making a partition), or external hard drive or flash drive if you need to keep running PowerPC applications. You will need the original installer discs, or if your Mac is older than March 15, 2010, you can use the 10.6.3 retail disc...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    23,557 views 0 replies
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    Installing Front Row in Lion
    Front Row - how to move this application from Snow Leopard to Lion:If (and only if) you still have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed, for example if you have dual boot, and you want to install Front Row in Lion 10.7.5, you need to move some files from the Snow Leopard Library to the Lion Library.For unknown reasons, Apple decided to make the libraries in Lion invisible, so you will have to make them visible before you can do this. There are two ways of doing this:1. Press Option as open the Go menu...
    Latest update on the question by Klaus1 in Older Software
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    Installing Front Row in Lion
    Front Row - how to move this application from Snow Leopard to Lion:If (and only if) you still have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed, for example if you have dual boot, and you want to install Front Row in Lion 10.7.5, you need to move some files from the Snow Leopard Library to the Lion Library.For unknown reasons, Apple decided to make the libraries in Lion invisible, so you will have to make them visible before you can do this. There are two ways of doing this:1. Press Option as open the Go menu...
    Latest update on the question by Klaus1 in Earlier Operating Systems
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 Rated by 7 users
    Classic, Rosetta, and 32/64 bit revisited.
    , the third party language translation and teaching software of nearly the same name.Snow Leopard offers 64 bit computing for some applications and the operating system itself. This can affect which peripherals and applications will run. Rosetta is not available on Mac OS X 10.7 or higher.The limitations of both are outlined below:1. Can Snow Leopard run software written for PowerPC Macs?Yes, if it was written for Mac OS X and does not require contextual menu plugins, PowerPC plugins, or PowerPC drivers...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    27,801 views 0 replies
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    How to Install Leopard Troublefree
    Tips on 10.2 Jaguar, 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard (End of the line for PowerPC Macs), 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks,10.10 Yosemite, and 10.11 El CapitanNote: this tip, and the series of tips I've written from 10.3 to 10.9 all refer to Mac OS X client. The server edition may have different limitations. Please ask on the appropriate Server forum if you are interested in Mac OS X Server.Mac OS X Sierra, to be released September 20, 2016 is the first...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    46,278 views 0 replies
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 Rated by 3 users
    A fresh tip for 10.6 installation software available
    Before you install anything, backup your data. August 28, 2009 Mac OS 10.6 was released March 15, 2010 Apple released the 10.6.3 retail installer disc that looks like and does not say drop-in/oem, or upgrade on it. Any Mac older than it but newer than January 7, 2006 can use it. Macs newer than this disc but older than Lion that did not have internet recovery firmware installed must use the original installer disc that shipped with them, or a hard drive that has the newer operating system...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    4,105 views 0 replies
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 Rated by 1 users
    kmosx: Installation options and their meaning
    Before any of these procedures is attempted, at least two backups are important to preserve your data. And to be even safer, shut down and remove the backup media from your machine before continuing, as some media get upset when being connected during an update process. Clean install is not any Mac OS X's installation option. Snow Leopard adds a new twist, in that there isn't an Archive and Install per se. For Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.5 there is an Archive and Install. If you hear people say...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    kmosx5: Dashboard Widget Bug
    Hello Everyone, I have seen questions on the forums regarding the widget bug numerous times (only in Leopard). I am a victim of this, and have finally found a solution. Most often, the issue is triggered with activating Parental Controls. All or most of your dashboard widgets will not work...until now! Here is the fix: About the Archive and Install FeatureThose are instructions on how to perform an Archive and Install. That is precisely the fix. But you must remember: *Preserve Accounts...
    Latest update on the question by Christoph *** in Earlier Operating Systems
    144 views 0 replies
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    Mac OS X 10.6 Server available by phone order
    MC588Z/A is the U.S. product identifier for Mac OS X 10.6 Server. It no longer is available from Apple directly. However a quick search of the internet should help you locate who does sell it.10.6 Server can be very handy for those who need a version of Mac OS X with Rosetta to function on newer Macs with newer operating systems, as this tip explains:https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6841...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in macOS Server
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    Quicken for Lion and Mountain Lion.
    on accounts. It appears that even with Quicken for Lion's release, those with Quicken 2004 or earlier files, have to take additional steps. Those steps were nicely summarized for me by MichaelLAX as the following: 1. While still in Snow Leopard, download Quicken 2006 PPC from Intuit: http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/patching/quicken-2006-manual-updates--mac -/GEN82200.html 2. Open your 2004 or older data file in Quicken 2006 PPC and it will convert the data file. 3. You may now open this converted...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    iOS devices and eMacs
    as LeopardAssist. Getting Leopard on your Mac means removing Classic environment, though if you have Mac OS 9 booting, you can maintain it through Mac OS X 10.5.8....
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Older Hardware
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    Upgrading to Snow Leopard or later
    I wrote this tip in the Leopard forum for those who are upgrading to Snow Leopard:Upgrading to Snow Leopard or later requirements....
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    A quicker look at retail installer discs
    If you were just looking for what the retail installer discs looked like, I have taken the information from this tip to help out:Can I download my Mac OS upgrade? Mac OS 7.6 Mac OS 8.0 & 8.1 (see fine print) Mac OS 8.5 and 8.5.1 Mac OS 8.6. Mac OS 9.0. 9.0.2, 9.0.4, 9.1, and 9.2.1 Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac OS X 10.4 TigerMac OS X 10.5 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardSome of these disks that have the same label may say Update, Dropin...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 Rated by 25 users
    High Sierra upgrading tip
    This tip is part of a series of tips for the client editions of Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11El Capitan 10.12 Sierra, and 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), and 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client edition. A new tip, which affects all High Sierra and older OS users: Microsoft Office 2019 High Sierra Support… - Apple Community Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac, need...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
    15,627 views 0 replies
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 Rated by 11 users
    AppleWorks for the modern day, a migration tip
    Some questions people have about AppleWorks moving to modern Macs are answered here:1. Does AppleWorks work on Intel Macs? Yes.2. Does AppleWorks work on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8), Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9), Yosemite (10.10), or El Capitan (10.11)? Not directly.Conversion to compatible formats (mentioned in question 7 below) before installing Lion, or attaching a bootable external hard drive and installing Snow Leopard or earlier on it and installing Appleworks...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Older Software
    37,915 views 0 replies
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 Rated by 1 users
    kichat: Can My Mac Be Made To Work With iChatAV ?
    linked earlier you need a Mac over a certain Spec (G4/1Ghz Dual) to be able to Host Video chats. (plus Internet Speed). Ecamm came to people's rescue again with PowerBoost if your Mac does not reach those specs. Leopard 10.5In Leopard the criteria is also for a mac of a certain spec before you even start, This is a G4/867Mghz processor. If you have problems then see this Apple Doc There is also some evidence that this helps other macs with the same message even if not this spec machine...
    Latest update on the question by Ralph-Johns-UK in Earlier Operating Systems
    238 views 0 replies
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 Rated by 2 users
    How to install Mac OS X Lion 10.7
    Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is available for older systems that are not compatible with the latest version of macOS. 1. Check compatibility Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later or Mac OS X Lion 10.7 already installed 2GB of memory 7GB of available storage space You can install Mac OS X Lion on any of these Macs. The latest supported software version is noted next to each model. See the Technical Specifications for the full list of requirements. MacBook Learn how to identify your MacBook. MacBook (13...
    Latest update on the question by Sean_W. in Earlier Operating Systems
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