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Safari won't launch, how to fix without reinstalling Mojave?

Hi there.


Macbook Air 11 inch, mid 2012, running 10.14.6


First off an admission: this is a self-inflicted problem. I've been avoiding the Catalina

software update prompts for months and then somehow while distracted I

allowed 'software update' . The software it was trying to install was a security update 2020 - 002, but I thought it was going to begin installing Catalina, anyhow once I realised

that some software update was preparing to install I just held down the

power switch and did a forced shut down.. On reboot I fould Safari

would not load and gives an error report.


Someone advised me to manually reinstall the security update, I did that but it has not helped the issue, - Safari still won't launch.


My question is can I do

something in Library to fix the issue rather than having to reinstall

the whole OS?


Many thanks.





MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 13, 2020 12:56 AM

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Posted on Apr 13, 2020 4:46 AM

Simon De Trey -White wrote:

Hi there.

Macbook Air 11 inch, mid 2012, running 10.14.6

First off an admission: this is a self-inflicted problem. I've been avoiding the Catalina
software update prompts for months and then somehow while distracted I
allowed 'software update' . The software it was trying to install was a security update 2020 - 002, but I thought it was going to begin installing Catalina, anyhow once I realised
that some software update was preparing to install I just held down the
power switch and did a forced shut down.. On reboot I fould Safari
would not load and gives an error report.

Someone advised me to manually reinstall the security update, I did that but it has not helped the issue, - Safari still won't launch.

My question is can I do
something in Library to fix the issue rather than having to reinstall
the whole OS?

Many thanks.

<Safari Error message.log>





Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



Reb0ot and try re-running the Combo update 10.14.6 https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2010?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

on top of your existing macOS 10.14.6


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Apr 13, 2020 4:46 AM in response to Simon De Trey -White

Simon De Trey -White wrote:

Hi there.

Macbook Air 11 inch, mid 2012, running 10.14.6

First off an admission: this is a self-inflicted problem. I've been avoiding the Catalina
software update prompts for months and then somehow while distracted I
allowed 'software update' . The software it was trying to install was a security update 2020 - 002, but I thought it was going to begin installing Catalina, anyhow once I realised
that some software update was preparing to install I just held down the
power switch and did a forced shut down.. On reboot I fould Safari
would not load and gives an error report.

Someone advised me to manually reinstall the security update, I did that but it has not helped the issue, - Safari still won't launch.

My question is can I do
something in Library to fix the issue rather than having to reinstall
the whole OS?

Many thanks.

<Safari Error message.log>





Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



Reb0ot and try re-running the Combo update 10.14.6 https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2010?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

on top of your existing macOS 10.14.6


Apr 18, 2020 12:45 AM in response to leroydouglas

Hi Leyroy many thanks for your reply, I tried step one and the disk repair completed almost instantly with no errors found. I then downloaded the 10.14.6 Combo update. How do I re-run it on top of my existing 10.14.6 when it brings up 'this volume does not meet the requirements for this update' - presumably because you can't apply the same update to the machine, it has to be a later update to an earlier version of the OS?


Thanks, Simon

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