I emptied the trash by mistake. I then downloaded Safari 7.0.4 and found out it won't work with Lion 10.7.5 Can I get an older version of Safari or do I now have to upgrade my OS ?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
You will have to upgrade your OS unfortunately. Unless you download an old version from some third-party website.
Restore it from a backup or restart with the Command and R keys held down and reinstall the OS.
If you got Lion from one of Apple’s USB thumbdrives, you need to reinstall it from there instead of the recovery partition.
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This has been a great help as it reminded me I have never done a back up on my Mac. I dug out my external HD and backed up 6 years of data and photo's. Wow I've been lucky I havn't lost anything. I also found my original disks I got with my computer. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to figure out how to re-install Safari even though I tried with the original DVD's
eric.shio wrote:
You will have to upgrade your OS unfortunately. Unless you download an old version from some third-party website.
Existing users with OS X 10.7.5 can look in the previous purchases section of the Mac App Store, and can re-download the current installer for the release.
Apple software acquired from third-party sites has been infested with malware on occasion.
To the OP...
In this case, downloading the combo update for 10.7.5 and re-applying it will probably resolve the immediate problem, if the system restore suggested by Niel doesn't resolve this.
If your Mac supports the El Capitan upgrade, an upgrade is generally recommended — Safari itself is increasingly being rejected from various sites that require more recent security, and unfortunately trying to load newer Safari onto older versions has gotten various folks into trouble, as that doesn't work.
I did download the combo update as suggested but get this message: There is no application set to open the document “MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.5(1).dmg.part”. So don't know what to do. Should I just upgrade to El Capitan ? I've read some negative stuff about this upgrade so I'm not sure if I want it. Suggestions appreciated.
bettsican wrote:
There is no application set to open the document “MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.5(1).dmg.part”. So don't know what to do.
That download didn't complete; that's an incomplete disk image (dmg). Try the download again.
Thanks for the help. You were right, it did not download so I did it again and installed the combo update. Now i have gone to Safari in Applications and all I see is the newer version I downloaded earlier and it will not let me open it as it's not compatible with my OS and it won't let me delete this newer version of Safari. I'm still stuck.
Won't let you delete it? What sort of error(s) are you getting? If you look at the settings on the Safari.app bundle, select Safari and press Command-I (Get Info) and post a screen shot of the sharing and permissions section of the Get Info display.
You'll have to delete that bogus Safari.app (somehow), then empty the trash, and then reinstall the combo update. See if that clears this. Failing that, delete the bogus Safari, empty the trash, and download OS X 10.7.5 from the Mac App Store previous purchases — the entire distro, not the combo update — and reinstall it, or see if the recovery partition can restore the files.
If there aren't any current backups here, I'd suggest getting the backups going first, so that you have a path out if the disk goes walkabout or the upgrade fails. Then get ongoing backups configured and operating, as all storage and all computers and all disks can and will inevitably fail, and there are far more important files — and files that are far harder to recover than Safari — on your Mac.
If your Mac supports it — not all systems running 10.7.5 do — OS X 10.11 is the current release, and that'll load a current version of everything, including current Safari. Have a backup before you try that, though.
It looks like I have at least 2 versions of Safari and I can't delete the newer one. I'm about to give up and just upgrade my OS as my computer seems to be acting weird with Firefox. Do any of these screen shots help figure out what's going on ?
Make a backup. Or two. Please. Right now. Protect your data.
From what's shown in those screen shots, it's that Safari that's the problem; if you control-click on that and select Move To Trash, it's not getting trashed? That Safari.app bundle also certainly looks corrupted, based on the icon shown, too.
Delete that Safari installer (pkg) package. Please don't try to install Safari that way. That package also seems to be incompletely downloaded, based on the filename shown. Which probably accounts for the problem. But again, that package is not how Safari is upgraded.
Make a backup. Better yet, make two backups to external storage. Your own data is important, and can be irreplaceable. OS X is replaceable. Then either try the recovery path mentioned earlier, or download and reinstall OS X 10.7.5 from the Mac App Store — that's the full installer and not the combo update — over the top of your current OS X 10.7.5 — do not select erase-and-install here — or download and install OS X 10.11 from the Mac App Store — if your Mac supports that version.
OK thanks. I made a complete backup of my entire system yesterday on an external HD so should be good to go. When I downloaded the Safari 7.0.4 it was from a third party site that also downloaded some funky browser. I managed to delete that but am stuck with Safari. I now know not to download from third party websites if at all possible.
I will try to get 10.7.5 from the Mac Store and if not I'll download a newer version.
Thanks for all the help.
I'd wonder what's been installed here, as third-party sites might serve up an actual Safari, or they might serve up malware pretending to be Safari — folks have already gotten nailed by fake apps — and malware may well have gotten all of your data, all of your contacts, all of your credit card information and who knows what else — banking activity? — uploaded to the 'net and to whoever posted "Safari" for you to "upgrade" your system.
I lost Safari by dragging to the trash
