Update removal
Any way to remove this update and restore previous environment?
MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
What are you talking about?
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Security update 2012-001 has screwed up my Entourage Mail program and I would like to remove the update
Restore the backup you took immediate prior to the update.
Allan
Howdy,
Apparently some are reporting that this causes the older PowerPC (PPC) applications that are supported in 10.6 via 'Rosetta' to crash upon attempting to open/save/print using any dialog box, or fail in other similar ways such as simply not printing or quitting, or freezing/hanging/crashing of the application.
I have read of some companies that have indeed submitted proper bug reports to Apple, but that is not a guarantee of a bug-fix being issued.
You might wish to read:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/snowleopard/index.html#d02feb2012
If you are unsure if you are still using PowerPC apps, if the application is currently running, look under the 'Activity Monitior' (in Applications -> Utilities), or alternatively you could check in the System Profiler, Applications. Check the column "Type".
Here is a fairly simple way you can restore you system and restore you applications functionality again, if you don't have a recent clone or good Time Machine backup that you can restore from. If you do, restore from your backup prior to having installed the Security Update 2012-001.
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Time Machine restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
If you are restoring a backup made by a Mac to the same Mac
With your backup drive connected, start up your Mac from the Lion recovery partition (Command-R at startup) or Mac OS X v10.6 installation disc. Then use the "Restore From Time Machine Backup" utility. Select the backup prior to your issues, and it will be restored back to the state it was in at that time.
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If you can't easily restore from a backup, you can instead do the following:
- You first start by reinstalling your OS X 10.6.x, this will preserve all your user data, your applications, no worries there.
- Then install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 (links provided below)
- Make sure you're printers are showing up correctly in your system preferences, if not, re-add the printers
- Then finally, run the Apple Software Update (by pulling down the Apple Menu), and install any and all remaining updates, except do not then re-install the Security Update 2012-001. It is possible that you may have to reboot after installing some of the updates, and you may even need to run it a 2nd time to make sure that you've got all updates, except NOT the Security Update 2012-001.
Links for 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
or the link to directly download this 1.09GB combo updater:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1399/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.8.dmg
Cheers,
Daniel Feldman
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On apple discussion https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3704759?answerId=17484448022#17484448022 I found a hint.
It points to the discussions on http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?showtopic=354758&st=60 and the replacment framework to be downloaded on the french site http://dl.free.fr/dqkAfTaOJ. It solved all my issues provided by this unsane Security Update 2012-001. MS Office 2004, RagTime, 4th-Dimension and so on are now working seamlessly again.
Happy weekend to all and a lot of thanks to all, who helped finding this solution!
Jann
Howdy,
Apple has now released an updated version 1.1 of the Security Update 2012-001 (v.1.1) that resolves these issues.
New update that resolves Rosetta/PowerPC application issues:
Security Update 2012-001 (v.1.1)
About Security Update 2012-001 (Snow Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1489
Version: 2012-001 v.1.1
Download ID: DL1489
License: Update
File Size: 192.73 MB
System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.6.8
Direct link to download stand alone installer:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1489/en_US/SecUpd2012-001Snow.dmg
Details about the security update:
About the security content of OS X Lion v10.7.3 and Security Update 2012-001
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
Cheers,
Daniel Feldman
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Thanks Daniel,
It is comforting that Apple is responding to this outpouring of concern. Unfortunately, given someone's apparently authoritative post, earlier, that Apple did not intend to rectify this, I spent the better part of a day restoring Snow Leopard (as it turned out, the backup I had made with Western Digital backup programme did not include the system files).
So now, I want to clone the appropriate system files (only system files, and not data files, which are saved to the WD external) to a separate external drive. Which files do I need in order to restore the previous system, should this occur again?
Copy everything over except your Home folder.
Have you looked into Time Machine? It makes restoring from backups easy. Cloning programs like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner are other good choices; they can be used to revert from an update in 15 minutes.
Update removal