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configure my 6-years-old Airport Express with my iMAC (OSX 10.8.4.)

Hello,


I cannot configure my 6-years-old Airport Express with my iMAC (OSX 10.8.4.).


When starting the Airport Utility Software (v. 6.3.1.) on the iMac, it says that my Airport Express Hardware is too old to get configured with the new Utility Software.


So I decided to download a very old version (v 4.1) of the Utility Program which should manage the old Hardware. When when trying to install this old version of the Utility Software, there's an error message which says that there's already a newer version of the software on my iMac and the installation process stops.


When trying to deinstall the Airport Utility Software (v. 6.3.1.) with AppCleaner it does not work. It seems that I cannnot remove the Utility Software (v. 6.3.1.) from my iMac


Can anybody help me?


Thanks!!


Ralf

Apple Airport Express Station-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 18, 2013 12:40 AM

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User profile for user: LaPastenague
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Posted on Aug 18, 2013 1:05 AM

I don't think you can go back that far.. you can go back to 5.6


How to load 5.6 into ML.


1. Download 5.6 for Lion.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.

Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg



2. Download and install unpkg.

http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/



Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.


Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.



You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.


For screen shots see this post.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

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LaPastenague
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Aug 18, 2013 1:05 AM in response to rbghsn

I don't think you can go back that far.. you can go back to 5.6


How to load 5.6 into ML.


1. Download 5.6 for Lion.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.

Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg



2. Download and install unpkg.

http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/



Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.


Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.



You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.


For screen shots see this post.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

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