Turn off mavericks upgrade notification in Snow Leopard

Is it this dialog box?

Thanks for uncovering those two. Reinstalling an earlier App Store app isn't the solution, but deleting those two should do the job.

Yes, that's the one I see about once a month or so.

Except that the last occurence lacked the "Not Now" button!!!! So the only way to dismiss it was to click "Details".

What happens and what options do you have after you click Details?

"App Store" is launched and Mavericks is shown. So I have to Quit "App Store"

Try running this in Terminal and hit enter/return. Should stop it. Copy/paste.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist

You will need to give your admin pword, which won't appear in any form when you enter it. Proceed past the warning, if you get one.

What, exactly, does that command do?

What (wanted or unwanted) side effects might it have?

Lennart Thelander wrote:

What, exactly, does that command do?

What (wanted or unwanted) side effects might it have?

It prevents that Noticeboard Launch Daemon or Agent from running by unloading it. You can always reverse this command by using EDITED sudo launchctl load -w. Shouldn't have any side effects, since I don't even have it on my system because I never ran the silly update. But if it does, which I strongly doubt, just reverse it.

I strongly recommend against using any sudo command without knowing how it leaves your system vulnerable to file deletes of important files for an indeterminate time period. Searching the description of Sudo here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo

It appears you can force the timeout of sudo to be a certain time. Until whatever the default time is reached, your machine is more vulnerable than not using it. I've updated my user tip to include methods of addressing the files without using sudo:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6971

Also, DO NOT install Mavericks over Snow Leopard as it will destroy your Snow Leopard environment.

Better to partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Mavericks there! Then use "dual-boot" (System Preferences:Startup Disk) to determine if you boot into Snow Leopard or Mavericks, as you experiment and learn about Mavericks.

Of course, always backup or make a clone before any update.

a brody wrote:

I strongly recommend against using any sudo command without knowing how it leaves your system vulnerable to file deletes of important files for an indeterminate time period. Searching the description of Sudo here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo

It appears you can force the timeout of sudo to be a certain time. Until whatever the default time is reached, your machine is more vulnerable than not using it. I've updated my user tip to include methods of addressing the files without using sudo:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6971

brody, I think what you are saying here related to leaving the system vulnerable to file deletes, simply by using any sudo command, borders on pure supersition. This is a simple, very targeted command. Shouldn't have any adverse effects.

Speaking of file deletes. From your tip:

And do the same with:

/System/Library/LaunchAgents/

Delete /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ ???????????? You mean all of them? If that's what you're saying, that's nuts.

Your user tip suggests reverting to an 'earlier' app store version; even though the application was not altered by the 2014 update (despite the name).

Forcing the install of a less secure app store (it was altered by Security Update 2011-006 at least

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may manipulate App Store help content, leading to arbitrary code execution) would be both ineffective, and more vulnerable.

Just how are these "file deletes" when sudo is enabled (default time is 5 min) supposed to happen? By what agency or magic? Sure, if you mean if the OP leaves the room and someone else gets physical access to the computer during that 5 min window and starts messing with system files. But how likely is that in an ordinary scenario, or in this scenario? What are you talking about?

Oh, and besides all this, in your tip you advise changing ownership in order to be able to delete these files. How you gonna do that without invoking sudo? Can't be done from Get Info. Wouldn't be allowed.

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Even if I add myself as owner with r&w to a system file, using Get Info. I will still be asked for my admin pword to move it to the Trash.