Raycie
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Q: Macbook OSX 10.6.8- Google Drive/Host

No support for updating any flash, video or web browsers. Used to be on top of some coding, then spent 14 months in Hospice, beat the cancer but lost a lot of brain function. Nothing helpful to fix issues with Mac upgrading - not sure of myself any longer. Can I continue to run Google Drive for building and hosting my website or am I spinning my wobbly wheels? I'm not wanting to have to buy a new computer at this point, medical bills, blah,blah,blah.  Any help is greatly appreciated. Still have original OS discs, but can't back up or utilize Time Mach. for files I don't want to lose. Have plenty of drive space left, even though the processor is a dinosaur, it's slow but functions. Regularly clean drive with

C-Cleaner,  use disc utility to repair permissions ( a lot of "leaking" and errors in libraries ) wondering if I've got configuration issues?? Browsers are all no longer supported and constantly get warning mess.'s telling me to upgrade, crashing of flash, Adobe reader freezes, run scans with Clam on basically everything - but how outdated it must be!! Can't get any to cooperate. I feel so lost in all of the new technology and no longer understand if I'm the problem or if it's in the system. I figure it's me. Just don't know where to look to find the solution. Interesting development, can no longer boot in safe mode, keychain works sporadically when opening browser or log files. Having a heck of a time deleting trash, takes forever. Anyone have any suggestions/ideas/solutions?  Many thanks and blessings.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Intel Core2 Duo, Proc. Sp. 2.26

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 11:46 AM

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Q: Macbook OSX 10.6.8- Google Drive/Host

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  • by MadMacs0,

    MadMacs0 MadMacs0 Sep 15, 2016 3:52 PM in response to Raycie
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    Sep 15, 2016 3:52 PM in response to Raycie

    Can't be of much help on your other issues, except to say that at least 10% of Mac users still seem to be getting by with Snow Leopard on a daily basis, so I'm sure there are several here that can help you with most of those issues.

    Raycie wrote:

     

    run scans with Clam on basically everything - but how outdated it must be!!

    If you have the latest commercial version of ClamXav which may be the only A-V software available that still supports 10.6.8 and above, then you are just as up-to-date as everybody else that is using it. BTW, you should still be receiving XProtect updates from Apple.

     

    I fully expected that malware developers would start targeting Snow Leopard users when Apple support stopped, in the same manner as they have been observed to attack vintage Windows users, but thankfully, that hasn't happened yet.

  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Sep 16, 2016 12:27 AM in response to Raycie
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    Sep 16, 2016 12:27 AM in response to Raycie

    If you can go online and read http://etrecheck.com/#about to see if you could

    make use of Etrecheck to create a report of your MacBook status, then post it

    into this thread, that may be able to get some ideas going to find a resolution.

     

    With the Time Machine software in the Snow Leopard system, you can create

    a backup to an external hard drive; that could be handy later in the process of

    restoring some of your wanted content, in a fully new installation of SL 10.6.8.

     

    Ideas on Time Machine, backups, & a few items Snow Leopard hasn't. One

    such item that will not apply to Snow Leopardd 10.6.8, is OS X Recovery.

     

    •Apple OS X and Time Machine Tips:

    http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

     

    The Etrecheck report can show details such as free vs used hard drive capacities,

    the total amount of memory (RAM) installed, what kinds of extensions or items that

    you may have choking the Mac and its OS X, and so on.

     

    Other incidental reading, such as the 'performance' section, from here:

    http://www.thesafemac.com/tech-guides/

     

    Among these 'tech guides' is a 'manual adware removal' method, since the later

    version of adware medic (known as malwarebytes for mac) won't work on S.L.

     

    Another idea, get & try the last supported version of FireFox (ESR) for Snow Leopard:

     

    • English (US) Mozilla Firefox Web Browser - Extended Support Release:

    Download - Mozilla Firefox (ESR

     

    the above link from this Mozilla multiple language page:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/

     

     

    Good luck & happy trails!