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Safari 4 O Old Machines

I am operating a Graphite iBook 466 MHz PowerPC G3 with 576 MB SDRAM using OS 10.4.11 and a maximum resolution of 800X600. When it was available I downloaded Safari 4 Beta and was happy with it. In the last week I received an automatic notice that new software was available (Safari 4). If there were cautions involving the resolutions I did not see them and I proceeded to download Safari 4. I immediately found that I had problems.

I trashed all Safari software that I could locate and attempted to load Safari 3.2.3Ti but every attempt was interrupted by a notice that “ You cannot install Safari on this volume. This Volume already has a newer version of Safari installed”

What must I do to successfully load an earlier version of Safari?

Graphite iBook 466Mhz, 576 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Also have 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, Mac Book Pro 17" 2.16 GHz/1GB/SD/120GB

Posted on Jun 23, 2009 3:24 PM

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Posted on Jun 23, 2009 3:36 PM

If you don't have a bootable backup cloned then you are pretty much looking at an archive and install. Safari installations are more complex than just trashing the program and really intermingle with the OS code. So personally I would back everything up (a system backup now will do no good as you have already applied the update) and then reinstall the OS from your startup disks, apply system and security updates etc. but not update Safari past the last Safari v3 update. Your previous settings and applications etc. will be stored in a folder named 'Previous System'. There are posts step by step on how to do this if you do a quick search of this forum.
Good Luck
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Jun 23, 2009 3:36 PM in response to Schnblume

If you don't have a bootable backup cloned then you are pretty much looking at an archive and install. Safari installations are more complex than just trashing the program and really intermingle with the OS code. So personally I would back everything up (a system backup now will do no good as you have already applied the update) and then reinstall the OS from your startup disks, apply system and security updates etc. but not update Safari past the last Safari v3 update. Your previous settings and applications etc. will be stored in a folder named 'Previous System'. There are posts step by step on how to do this if you do a quick search of this forum.
Good Luck

Jun 24, 2009 9:30 AM in response to keats2010

It is NOT necessary to Archive and Install to get Safari 3 back.

Download Safari 3.1.1 Update from Apple's Download page. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/safari311.html

Quit Safari.
Delete Safari
Delete the receipts file at /Library/Receipts/Safari4.0Tiger.pkg
Empty Trash

Mount Safari 3.1.1.dmg file
Run Safari311UpdPPC.pkg
Perform 'Upgrade'
Restart

All is good with Safari 3.
🙂

Jul 2, 2009 4:43 PM in response to Schnblume

does this really work? sounds to good to be true.

for the last 2 weeks everyone and all of the supposedly holier than thou apple forum tech geeks said no way - not this easy.

they said that the update changes a whole lot more behind the workings of safari and going to safari 3 again can't be done due to all of this under the changes that were made.

I hat e to do this and then I'd have to redo my entire system again and spend 3 days or more doing so.

thanks for any comments. I may have to bite the bullet and live with 4 - YECH!!!!!!!! what a piece of sh&t!

Message was edited by: Tibetan

Jul 2, 2009 4:48 PM in response to Tibetan

The aforementioned procedure (the one that claims you do not need to reinstall the OS) did NOT work for me - that left me with no usable version of Safari installed, and nothing I could do would make Safari 3 install - I got the exact same message you're getting ("Safari 3 can not be installed on this volume because a newer version is already installed").

I did an Archive & Install as described in the link above. That was a lot less hassle than I thought it would be. Took about an hour, everything else remained perfectly functional (even my bookmarks are intact), and now I'm back using Safari 3 (happily).

Jul 2, 2009 6:25 PM in response to longtimemacuser666

If you try to reinstall a prior version of Safari the wrong way, it won't work. The posted directions referred to Mac OS X 10.4, so if you downloaded that, you got a version for Tiger, so of course you shouldn't expect it to install on a sysem running Mac OS X 10.5.

All you needed to do is download the right version for your OS and install it after deleting Safari and it's Receipt in the corresponding folder. It works for me, so there's no reason it wouldn't work for you unless you didn't follow the proper procedure.

Jul 4, 2009 4:41 AM in response to hanne333

Ok - I am running 10.4.11 on intel and a ppc powerbook.


Quit Safari.
Delete Safari
Delete the receipts file at /Library/Receipts/Safari4.0Tiger.pkg
Empty Trash

I guess ii understand this so far and have found the receipts folder in the main HD area.



Mount Safari 3.1.1.dmg file

stupid ? - how do you mount this? I usually just click on the icon or the package and click again and it auto loads/installs...

Run Safari311UpdPPC.pkg

how - what do you mean? also I see ppc in there - is there an intel in there too for the macbook pro I have?


Perform 'Upgrade'

again - how do you upgrade?
Restart

thank you in advance for all of your help - I just do not want to screw this up...

Jul 18, 2009 2:35 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Add me to the list of those for whom 'RAmeeti's' suggestion worked.

I wasn't experiencing crashes, but, S.4 was slow for me. I also had the problem of some web pages ( http://my.earthlink.net) momentarily loading and then going to a blank page.

All was well and 3.1.1 does indeed seem faster than 4.0.2. HOWEVER, 'my.earthlink.net' has begun acting up again; going to a blank page after almost loading. Just not as consistently as with v4.

But, reverting can be done without an A&I.

Jul 18, 2009 3:46 PM in response to David Cun

I tried to do as RAmeeti suggested, but was unable to make it work. may have made an error along the way. Even after deleting the receipts, the HD showed NO GO.
So I did end up doing A&I. At least I an back to using 3.2.3 which i find much faster than 3.11.

I will archive these messages in case I ever need it 🙂
Maybe someone can explain or send link to explanation of how to delete safari or other program wo A&I
Thanks

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