Lightscribe Drive & El Capitan

I have an iMac from year 2006. It kept it with the original S.O. which comes with it in Apple's DVDs; no upgrades.

I use it to make my LightScribe work, iDVD, older iMovie with its features. Keeping your old Mac and do not upgrading ha its benefits.

Hello Lightscribe users,

just thought I would share the resolution to the Lightscribe driver issue with El Capitan... You can have your Lightscribe drive once again!

I too was very sad to loose my Lightscribe drive as I still love using it. After some serious looking and persistence, I found a solution that I can say works great and allowed me once again to use my Lightscribe drive.

This solution was discovered by smarter folks than I and I for one, am very grateful.

The problem is the system integrity protection in El Capitan.

My thanks go to, Stefan Ilchenko and Jo Vandeweghe who came up with this process as well as Steve Nelson who took over all things Lightscribe and shared this process when HP abandoned us all.

Here is how I got mine to work once again:

1. Go to the new home of everything Lightscribe: https://lightscribesoftware.org

2. Then click on Free Software / Free Mac Software or click here: https://lightscribesoftware.org/freesoftware/mac/

While on this page, go ahead and grab the Lightscribe System Software and extract the .tar on your desktop.

3. Scroll down on this page until you see: Install System Software on El Capitan or click here: https://lightscribesoftware.org/how-to-install-system-software-on-el-capitan/

4. You will also need a program called: Pacifist, Pacifist 3.5.9 which at this time is the newest version.

You can find Pacifist 3.5.9 here: https://www.charlessoft.com

You will need to read the instructions which are very easy to follow, reboot and now your Lightscribe drive is alive once more!

I posted this to offer a solution to a problem many of us had... Not to claim to be an expert or that I have covered every possible issue or problem that may arise from this solution. It works for me and I have my favorite drive back, so I thought I would share.

I can verify that this method works!

Thank you for the Fix !!

I spent quite a lot of hours the last 2 days, read over 8 hours trying many ways instead of using your fix.

Not that I used the fix I can use EL Capitan 10.11.4 to do LightScribe again.

It was just a couple of disks. I had not not used LightScribe for about 2 year until now.

Still have over 200 LightScribe CD and DVD on hand.

Many thanks once again for the fix.

This worked perfectly after I realized that Pacifist has nothing to do with Lightscribe and is it's own software...uch

Thanks Much... It was a lifesaver

Hi

I followed Stefano from Tuscany's solution. It looks complicated but if you follow the steps in order it really works. Brilliant!! Thanks Stafano.