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mculmore Author

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Anyone know why I got this Terminal Error? [ERROR] The device-file for this operating system, 'osx-12.1.0.xml', was not found.

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[ERROR] <CPPathUtils.c:526> The device-file for this operating system, 'osx-12.1.0.xml', was not found. An attempt to revert to a previous revision of the OS device-file: 'osx-12.0.0.xml' has been made. Please file a Radar report with Apple, on the 'CoreProfile' component, version 'X'.

Appeared after 10.8.1 Friday update while troubleshooting USB/FW issues w/ Mountain Lion.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 25, 2012 11:09 AM

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leroydouglas

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Posted on Aug 25, 2012 11:21 AM

It's a bug

see update note, bottom of page:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/23/os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-1-update-released/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4234751?tstart=0

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Sep 24, 2012 3:38 AM in response to MontisCalpe

This method is not as safe as using a symbolic link.

MontisCalpe wrote:

or you could navigate to folder through finder

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreProfile.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Dev ices/

copy and paste file osx-12.0.0.xml and rename it osx-12.1.0.xml

Anyone know why I got this Terminal Error? [ERROR] The device-file for this operating system, 'osx-12.1.0.xml', was not found.