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I just upgraded my MacBook to Yosemite, and the new sound effect for the volume button is just awful. Is there a way to change out the sound file so I can hear the old version on Yosemite?

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  • possible duplicate of Where is the OS X Volume Change Feedback Sound File located?
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 10:16
  • This allows me to find the new sound, do you have any idea where i can find the old one in order to replace it ?
    – Rogue
    Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 10:19
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    See if you can find someone who hasn't updated yet; it's in the same place. Note that no-one yet has reported swapping it back actually works, but it's quite possibly a case of replacing one with the other.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 10:23
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    @Rogue here's the volume.aiff file from Mavericks: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13617105/volume.aiff
    – Mateusz Szlosek
    Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 10:59
  • The Dropbox link to obtain the old Maverick Volume sound file does not; probably expired. Here is a fresh link where to obtain the file to replace the new sound file you might not like (like me!): forums.macrumors.com/attachments/volume-aiff-zip.487154
    – user145939
    Commented Sep 9, 2015 at 0:46

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It can be done, although you need to find the Mavericks volume feedback sound file. The filename is "volume.aiff" and (for both Mavericks and Yosemite) it is located in: /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources

Find the Mavericks volume feedback sound file and put it on your Desktop for easy access.

Open the Terminal and navigate to the folder containing the sound file:

cd /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources

Create a backup of the original file in case you want to reverse the changes:

sudo cp volume.aiff volume.aiff.bak

Provide the password when prompted.

Now copy in the Mavericks sound file placed on your Desktop:

sudo cp ~/Desktop/volume.aiff ./

Restart

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  • Tried this on El Capitan (with sudo) and still got: cp: volume.aiff.bak: Operation not permitted
    – Siniša Šašić
    Commented Apr 20, 2016 at 14:49
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This works perfectly AFTER you boot into recovery (by holding CMD+R at boot up).

From there open Terminal (under the Utilities menu) and enter csrutil disable (to disable System Integrity Protection).

Once you do that there are no issues though I would recommend you repeat the above process when done and enter csrutil enable into Terminal to enable System Integrity Protection.

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