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View 14 RepliesOvernight my Mac OS X won't accept the password. Can't get into system to reset. Tried typing at command promtp after restarting with Command S. System did not recognize the LS users directory. How can I get in by accessing a partition to reset or delete password settings?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5)
I am trying to install Snow leopard 10.6.3 to my laptop from 10.5.8 version I have. I am get an error code saying I am unable to do so due to the disc not being able to be partitioned. I've tried going to disc utility to partition the disc but it says that I cannot due to the disc being a start up disc. How do I upgrade my software?
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), want to upgrade to snow leopard
I ran the 10.7.3 upgrade (via Software Update) to upgrade from 10.7.2 on both my iMac and my MBP. Worked fine on my iMac, but the install on my MBP stuck during "Moving items into place...".Â
After waiting for about an hour I rebooted the MBP and it stuck on the grey Apple screen with the the spinning clock hands (do they have an offiicial name?), Â
I rebooted in Safe Mode and everything looked fine, but with no Internet connection (my iMac had an Internet connection, so no router problems). Â
I rebooted again (normal boot i.e. not in Safe Mode) and downloaded the Combo Updater on to my MPB (Internet access now fine - also 'About this Mac' shows the OS level as 10.7.3). I am now running the Combo Updater on my MBP, but it has once again stuck during "Moving items into place...". It says the remaining install time is about a minute - it has been stuck here for about 15 minutes, with no movement on the Progress Bar.Â
At what point should I give up and reboot? What should I try next? Should I have applied the Combo Updater when booted in Safe Mode?Â
I recently replaced my MacBook Pro's (13-inch, Mid 2012) default hard drive with a third party SSD. I'm not sure if this would have any affect on it, but I can't upgrade to OS X 10.7.4. I used Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to install Lion on the drive and to bring it up to 10.7.3, and when it was finished, I checked Software Update and there was no update for 10.7.4. I downloaded the update directly from the Apple website (both the client and the combo updates) and neither of them will allow me to update! I get a message in the Installer that says, "Mac OS Update Combined can't be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet thre requirements for this update." Again, I'm not sure if this has to do with the third party SSD I installed or not. Other than the inability to update the OS, the SSD works wonderfully.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 13-inch, Mid 2012
lion upgrade states 2gb necessary and will not begin install. i have 130 gb available.
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7)
I'm thinking if I should Clean Install Mountain Lion or Upgrade from Lion OSX.
I have only recently cleanly re-installed Lion OSX. But in a few weeks time, M.Lion will be released
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), (RAM - 4Gb)
I was doing a software update in an outdated Mac OS X 10.7.3 to get all the latest updates through its Apple Software Update. However, one of them failed to upgrade: iTunes v10.6.1 to v10.6.3. After rebooting to let Mac OS X 10.7.3 to 10.7.4, Apple Software Updater shows it 97% partially downloaded. I have over 31 GB free, so it can't be a free disk space problem. I tell it to resume download, but it quickly fails from 169 MB to about 172.7 MB (176.9 MB is the whole size) with "The update "iTunes" can't be installed. The update could not be verified. It may have been corrupted during the downloading. The update will be downloaded and checked again the next time that Software Update runs."Â
View 14 Replies View Relatedi am facing problem to upgrade my macbook pro 15 inch 10.6.3 to os x lion 10. 7 with recovery drive.Â
actually i m trying to install os x lion with the following method but could not install. i use 2 methods to install os
1st method.Â
i make a recovery drive with recovery disk assistant on macbook air 13 inch which is shipped with lion 10.7 . and i connect my recovery drive with macbook pro 15 inch on which OS is snow leopard 10.6.3, for upgrade/install OS X lion on my macbook pro 15 inch by recovery drive.Â
when i hold down option key i can see my recovery drive . i can boot through my recovery drive but when i try to install os x lion the computer says "you cant upgrade this version of mac os x "Â
2nd methodÂ
i made recovery drive on macbook pro 13 inch which is upgraded snow leopard to lion and then i try to upgrade my macbook pro 15 inch then the same problem i am facing  "you cant upgrade this version of mac os x "Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Tried to install latest system upgrade on Pro. Won't restart. Bootstrapper crashed: trace/bpt trap:5. What can I do to get my computer working?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to prepare for a "clean install" of Mountain Lion when it comes out. However, it's clean in theory because I want to be able to have my personal files and programs ready for ML but I am afraid for any left-overs from deleted apps since I tend to install & uninstall them for test drive purposes.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 13" Mid-2010
I recently upgraded to Lion and am now unable to print either through USB or wirelessly. I have an HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus printer and have made sure to install all the new software since upgrading my OS. When I go to print my print queue shows the status as 'printing' but ultimately nothing prints.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus
Last week my hard drive broke (with Snow Leopard) and I brought my macbook pro to an Apple Store, the HD was totally broken and they couldn't restore any data. They installed a new hard drive with Lion, when I got home I restored my data with Time Machine, but now Safari and VLC aren't responding, Safari opens but that's it and VLC doesn't even opens. Also the CPU of VLC and Webprocess gets to 100 %.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm unable to upgrade from my 10.6.8 configuration on my Mac Pro running OS X Server to OS X Lion Server. I've purchased both Lion and Lion Server, but each time I attempt to run the updates to 10.7+ I get error messages saying to install 10.7 or to download Lion Server - though when I do that it tells me that I need to install 10.7. How to migrate to Lion Server.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Have tried several times to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion. Shows it is downloading, but nothing is happening. The lion icon is on my bar - grayed.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have had none stop issues since installing lion and I desperately need someone's help. Since the installation my imac constantly loses connection with my bluetooth keyboard and mouse, random horizontal lines appear in Safari, and computer freezes whenever I open more than 3 programs.
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imac + macbook
Why am I unable to install the new lion software on to my Mac?
Info:Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Always the same message " this application was not signed from know distributor and could destroy your computer" i can only install application from the app store..
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Can I really not install Lion because my mac mini only has 1GB of RAM? This is very disappointing. I've just got myself an iPhone 4S, so effectively I can't use any of the iCloud features because my mac mini can't run Lion. And apparently there is no alternative.
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Early 2009, Intel C2 Duo, 1GB RAM
Software update certificate expired on 3-23-2012. Unable to install iLife 11. The following message popup "iLife.pkg was signed with an invalid certificate."
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
So i have a Mid 2010 iMac 27" - 2.93 Ghz. i7, 16 GB, with a 2 TB Drive, and 10.7.3 running on it. About a month ago, my Superdirve broke, and i cant install anything. As i need my Computer due to work, i bouth an Asus BD + DVD + CD - Combo-Drive-thingy, which works perfectly fine, BUT now i wanted to install Win8 Consumer Preview over my Win7.
Firstly i couldnt, because you cant do that with the Installer on 32 bit, to install 64 bit Then i tried it via Bootcamp, so i had to delete the old drive. Then i wanted to make a new one via the Bootcamp Assistent, downloaded the Drivers, burnt them, and put the Win8 DVD in the Asus Drive. Then it told me to put the Windows DVD in, because he didnt recognise it from the Asus Drive. But i cant, because the Superdrive is broken. So i rebooted, and i got into the Windows Install Thingy, but aswell this didnt recognise the DVD because the Drive is only connected via
2 USB Ports. So next, i made a Win8 Install USB-Flashdrive, and this should work perfectly fine normally, but just aswell, it didnt recognise it. So then i installed rEFIt, and tried to get to the installer with that, somehow. no chance.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have purchased Lion OS X, and the icon to install it was there in my applications. However, when I start it, it tells me that it will install, and the computer will restart. And when it restarts, the same old OS X 10.6.8 is there, no change.
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Mac mini, Other OS, Lion OS X
Cannot installs on computer, recovery cannot be created. My system has bootcamp installed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to do a Lion clean install with a bootable usb. I already did it a lot of time on Leopard, Snow Leopard and even Lion.
But this time I'm not able to perform a clean install, after booting from the usb the apple logo is substituted by I circle with a slash.Â
I already check the HDD with Disk Utility and their is no problem with the HDD
I bought my macbook air with lion os, I have formated my HD , and I want to install the lion os, but when I give my apple ID, the message says that the lion is not identified with this ID, I'm wondering if I shall buy the lion os, although I bought my macbook air with lion os, new from apple shop!!
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am not able to install anything, from an Acrobat update to Apple Motion. The installer always hangs around 3/4 of the way through.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently got a new macbook it's running OSX 10.7 Lion, but im unable to run programs because of the MPEG-2 Codec being missing. I was informed this Codec came with Lion?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), MPEG-2
I just received my new Mac pro at work and is trying to install Mountain Lion as the OS instead of Mavericks but it seems impossible. Every time I try to boot up on a bootable 10.8 installation drive I get the no entry sign. I even cloned my old MacPro and tried to boot from the external drive, I still get the no entry sign.Â
I tried booting from a thunderbolt, USB and even super drive, with no luck.Â
I need to install 10.8 because Mavericks doesn't work with Active Directory in my company, it just hangs the system every time, we've tried many different ways to fix this but it just seems to get worst.Â
Any way I can downgrade a 2013 Mac Pro to 10.8?Â
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I want to get rid of my Snow Leopard system and install Lion. But I heard that there will be a new version called "Mountain Lion" available in July. Shall I wait until the new version gets published or can I easily update the Lion version to Mountain Lion without paying anything?Â
View 1 Replies View RelatedI purchased the new Mac Box Set with Leopard 10.5.6, iLife '09 and iWork '09.
I was 50/50 on which type of Leopard install I wanted to perform today.
Looks like the disc made the choice for me and performed, what I'm assuming, is the upgrade. All of my files, settings, etc. were intact after the reboot.
