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Installing 10.4/10.5 on a Mac with a broken/or incompatible optical drive
Mac, be sure the disc is a newer retail disc, or the disc that came prebundled with the Mac. Snow Leopard is not compatible with PowerPC.---------------*These types of install will NOT work*:1. Setup an iBook G4 1.25 Ghz in target mode with a broken optical drive.2. Boot off an iBook G4 1 Ghz and connect the machine step one to the machine in step 2.3. Install Leopard or Tiger--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Install on an external firewire...
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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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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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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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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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New Apple devices, and what to do about them?
system. Note for Snow Leopard compatibility of the newest Macs, see https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6841. Note also, if you do get a used or refurbished machine, be sure to get the original discs.This does not apply to Macs refreshed new after Lion's release of July 20, 2011, as no Macs that were prebundled with Lion come with any discs. Instead they use a recovery partition to recover Lion. A clone or Time Machine backup will save the download time of restoring Lion from the restore partition...
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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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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...
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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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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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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 OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 is available for older systems that are not compatible with the latest version of macOS. 1. Check compatibility Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, or OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 already installed 2GB of memory 8GB of available storage space You can install OS X Mountain 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...
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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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Upgrading to new Mac OS versions
of your entire Mac's internal hard drive. This step is really needed in case something goes wrong with the install of the new OS or you simply do not like the new OS, you have a very easy way/procedure to return your Mac to its former working state.Then, determine if your Mac meets ALL minimum system install requirements.Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard system requirementsPurchased Installer disc here.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopardTo install Snow Leopard for the first time...
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Tips to allow the continued use of iWeb...
08 or older, do not update your OS beyond Snow Leopard. Alternatively, you can run Snow Leopard from an external drive since all versions are stable under this OS.For those of you who are buying a new Mac, make sure you transfer iWeb, and its associated files, to it from the old one using Migration Assistant.app. You will find this in the Utilities folder.Although, at the time of writing, you can still purchase the iLife ‘09 and ‘11 disks from retailers such as Amazon, its hardly worth buying...
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Upgrading to Sierra
This page will be updated on the author's own homepage: http://www.macmaps.com/docs/DOC-10693/ Links to this page may give the author compensation. This tip is part of a series of tips for : Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10,El Capitan System (10.11), Mac OS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client. Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac...
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What Mac/Mac Operating system is supported?
With all software listings, note that the following nomenclature normally means compatibility is limited to the following: 10.6 and up = 10.6 and 10.6.1. 10.6.x and up = 10.6, 10.6.1, 10.6.2 10.6 to 10.6.8 = all versions of 10.6 are supported. Mac OS = could mean just Mac OS 9, or 1 through 8 and no Mac OS X. Mac OS X = could just mean 10.0, or it could mean all PowerPC Macs running 10.0, or all versions of Mac OS X. Mac OS X PPC = means G3, G4, and G5s may support it with 10.0 through 10.5.8...
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operating system installer disc won't boot or install
system disc. However, if they were not yet refreshed after Lion's release, calling AppleCare might result in a system specific disc they can install on with some version of 10.6. The Macs where this was a possibility, are listed at the bottom of https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455 For all newer Lion released Macs, the recovery process is outlined in this article.2. Model specific installer discs are clearly labelled for the specific model in question, though not always for the specific...
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    Installing 10.4/10.5 on a Mac with a broken/or incompatible optical drive
    Mac, be sure the disc is a newer retail disc, or the disc that came prebundled with the Mac. Snow Leopard is not compatible with PowerPC.---------------*These types of install will NOT work*:1. Setup an iBook G4 1.25 Ghz in target mode with a broken optical drive.2. Boot off an iBook G4 1 Ghz and connect the machine step one to the machine in step 2.3. Install Leopard or Tiger--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Install on an external firewire...
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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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    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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    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
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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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    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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    New Apple devices, and what to do about them?
    system. Note for Snow Leopard compatibility of the newest Macs, see https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6841. Note also, if you do get a used or refurbished machine, be sure to get the original discs.This does not apply to Macs refreshed new after Lion's release of July 20, 2011, as no Macs that were prebundled with Lion come with any discs. Instead they use a recovery partition to recover Lion. A clone or Time Machine backup will save the download time of restoring Lion from the restore partition...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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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...
    Latest update on the question by a brody 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
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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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    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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    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
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    How to install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
    OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 is available for older systems that are not compatible with the latest version of macOS. 1. Check compatibility Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, or OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 already installed 2GB of memory 8GB of available storage space You can install OS X Mountain 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...
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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....
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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...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    Upgrading to new Mac OS versions
    of your entire Mac's internal hard drive. This step is really needed in case something goes wrong with the install of the new OS or you simply do not like the new OS, you have a very easy way/procedure to return your Mac to its former working state.Then, determine if your Mac meets ALL minimum system install requirements.Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard system requirementsPurchased Installer disc here.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopardTo install Snow Leopard for the first time...
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    Tips to allow the continued use of iWeb...
    08 or older, do not update your OS beyond Snow Leopard. Alternatively, you can run Snow Leopard from an external drive since all versions are stable under this OS.For those of you who are buying a new Mac, make sure you transfer iWeb, and its associated files, to it from the old one using Migration Assistant.app. You will find this in the Utilities folder.Although, at the time of writing, you can still purchase the iLife ‘09 and ‘11 disks from retailers such as Amazon, its hardly worth buying...
    Latest update on the question by Roddy in Older Software
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 Rated by 12 users
    Upgrading to Sierra
    This page will be updated on the author's own homepage: http://www.macmaps.com/docs/DOC-10693/ Links to this page may give the author compensation. This tip is part of a series of tips for : Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10,El Capitan System (10.11), Mac OS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client. Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac...
    Latest update on the question by a brody in Earlier Operating Systems
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    What Mac/Mac Operating system is supported?
    With all software listings, note that the following nomenclature normally means compatibility is limited to the following: 10.6 and up = 10.6 and 10.6.1. 10.6.x and up = 10.6, 10.6.1, 10.6.2 10.6 to 10.6.8 = all versions of 10.6 are supported. Mac OS = could mean just Mac OS 9, or 1 through 8 and no Mac OS X. Mac OS X = could just mean 10.0, or it could mean all PowerPC Macs running 10.0, or all versions of Mac OS X. Mac OS X PPC = means G3, G4, and G5s may support it with 10.0 through 10.5.8...
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    operating system installer disc won't boot or install
    system disc. However, if they were not yet refreshed after Lion's release, calling AppleCare might result in a system specific disc they can install on with some version of 10.6. The Macs where this was a possibility, are listed at the bottom of https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455 For all newer Lion released Macs, the recovery process is outlined in this article.2. Model specific installer discs are clearly labelled for the specific model in question, though not always for the specific...
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