Questions tagged [snow-leopard]
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is the seventh major release of the Mac OS X
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Custom screen resolution for a VirtualBox Mac guest?
TL;DR - How do I set a custom screen resolution for a VirtualBox Mac guest?
I'm in a situation where I need to keep Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8) alive in a VirtualBox setup to run some legacy ...
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Debug why USB drive is ignored as a bootable device?
I created a USB drive with 'El Capitan' on it, as described here, which uses mostly these directions, "option 2: Use Disk Utility."
I now have a USB key with "Mac OS Extended" format and 7.8G of ...
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How to make a bootable USB drive from Install OS X El Capitan.app? [duplicate]
I wish to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to anything higher.
Disk Utilities repair says the disk needs to be repaired. So, I need to boot onto something other than the boot drive to run disk ...
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How do I boot from DVD to do clean install of Snow Leopard on iMac4,1?
I have an iMac4,1 (20" Intel Core Duo 2.0) -- stock except an authorized Apple Repair place upgraded the HD to 1TB for me a couple years ago.
It's been acting strange for a while, log in, use it for ...
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Which OS X version to install on old Mac Mini?
I'd like to repurpose a very old Mac Mini 2,1 (1.83 GHz Intel C2D, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) into a browsing / movie watching machine.
Would I be better off with Snow Leopard or Lion on such an old Mac?
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I am trying to erase and reformat drive with snow leopard, but don't have the install DVD
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, and I'm selling it to someone. Want to erase and reformat the drive but I don't have the Snow Leopard Install DVD. Is there any way to do this?
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Installing Snow Leopard on external drive with newer iMac version
I have two computers running different types of OS X. One is an iMac with Mavericks (10.9.5) and the other is a Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard (10.6.x).
My Macbook Pro isn't working (HDD problem), so ...
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MacBook Pro 7,1 OS X upgrade to Lion or Mavericks
I own a MacBook Pro 7,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and need to upgrade my operating system in order to allow my kids access Netflix as it says I need to update my browser.
Apple software update says ...
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Cannot Partition Disk with Disk Utility
I can't seem to partition my disk with Disk Utility or with the Terminal command (see screenshots).
Something also happened to my other partition running Mavericks, where it just turned into an "empty ...
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Upgrade from Mac OS X 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard" to OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"; App Store takes over 20 hours
I have an old Mac, currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard" that I must upgrade to OS X 10.10 "Yosemite". It has 8 GB RAM.
The "About this Mac" gives me the following information:
Mac OS ...
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Tried to reinstall osX and ended up getting folder with questionmark on boot
Today I decided after 6 years to format my MacBook Pro 2009 laptop.
Originally I had Snow Leopard on it (I still have an unscratched cd) but in some point back in 2012 a friend installed (using his ...
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Update iMovie in OS X 10.6.8
My iMac is running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I still have iMovie 7.1.4. How do I update it? And which version of iMovie is it compatible with OS X 10.6.8?
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In gimp: How do I create a new file / open an xcf file?
I downloaded "gimp 2.8.10 for Snow Leopard & Lion & Mountain Lion" from gimp.lisanet as indicated by gimp.org and installed it on an intel mac 64 bits under 10.6.8. The installation seems to ...
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Applescript causes long error messages to be logged in system.log
I have this very simple script...
tell application "System Events"
set activeApp to short name of first process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application activeApp
repeat 5 times
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mid-2009 macbook pro - erased. Now "Mac OS X cannot start up from this disk". (and cannot install to this disk!)
I have a mid-2009 macbook pro, and the original 10.6.8 installer DVD that it came with. I booted up in recovery mode, and erased the HD (whether or not that was a good idea). My intention was to get ...
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Yosemite or Snow Leopard for 2008 MacBook?
I have a 2008 MacBook which is getting slow, I need to do an erase and reinstall.
I have the choice to install Yosemite (online) or Snow Leopard (from a DVD).
But would Yosemite be too much for my ...
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Why does mdworker segfault when scanning files owned by root?
While investigating a disk with ever-dwindling free space and a CPU pegged at >100%, I eventually determined that the problem was mdworker repeatedly segfaulting, keeping syslogd and CrashReporter ...
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I get the grey screen after startup on 2006 macbook pro. no keys work. [closed]
Just a few days ago ( I have actually been using another computer for a while ) I started up my 2006 macbook pro and and after a few minutes I got the white diagonal lines, although I could still see ...
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2008 MacBook Air Can't Boot OS X Snow Leopard USB Install Drive
I have a 2008 MacBook Air (MB003LL/A / MacBookAir1,1 / A1237 / 2142), and I am trying to reformat it with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, using the retail install DVD image snowleopard_10a432_userdvd.dmg ...
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Can't Boot from Snow Leopard anymore after having installed mavericks on an external HDD
I have a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.
I wanted to test how mavericks works on my computer so I downloaded the OS and then I installed on a external USB HDD. Everything work as expected. I can ...
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OS X 10.5.8 - can I upgrade the OS?
I have an iMac from 2007-2009 and I want to upgrade the software to improve performance.
It's running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (2.66 GHz). It displays 4 GB of memory and 451.6 ...
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Updating OS X 10.6 install screen stuck
I just re-installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my MacBook Pro (2008 ed) using the original DVD. I then selected update software to bring it up to 10.6.8. The software downloaded and then I received the message ...
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Snow Leopard *private* folder? [duplicate]
I am running 2 OS flavors on my 2010 Macpro, 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on one startup drive and the latest Yosemite on another.
The Snow Leo drive contains a folder "private" that looked like it was 25GB ...
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Google + won't let me see my photos, they ask me to upgrade safari
Google + won't let me see my photos, they ask me to upgrade safari.
My Safari update is ok I have MacPro Book OS x 10.6.8
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Moving Macbook Snow Leopard drive to a Macbook Pro that had Yosemite installed: kernel panic!
My wife has a mid 2006 macbook that has been upgraded to snow leopard. I have a mid 2008 macbook pro that has been upgraded to Yosemite. I now want to give my macbook pro to my wife, and thought I ...
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Can one create a multi-partition USB Stick with Mavericks, Yosemite, Snow Leopard installers?
Does anyone have any experience creating a multi-partition USB Stick with bootable partitions for installing Mavericks, Yosemite and Snow Leopard?
I have a 32Gb stick I'd be perfectly willing to ...
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One of my start-up drives is missing
I have a Mac Pro (Early 2009) in which I am running two OS's.
10.10 on a Mercury Accelsior SSD and Snow Leopard on a conventional drive. Before upgrading the SSD from Mavericks to Yosemite all was ...
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Can OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard be installed on a 2007 MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB
Ok so i have a 2007 MacBook2,1 - 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - OS X 10.5.8 - Memory 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
I can't currently sync my iphone 4s (IOS 7.1.1) or ipad (IOS 8.2) because i can't upgrade to ...
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How to upgrade my browser on 10.6.8
These are the specs of my mac book, currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I'm trying to upgrade my browser, as Gmail says it's out of date, and I can't access the playlist on amazon prime.
I am not ...
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What is CoreRAID? What is the function of com.apple.CoreRAID.plist in LaunchDaemons?
What is the function of com.apple.CoreRAID.plist in LaunchDaemons? What happens if I disable it? In general terms what is CoreRAID?
Thank you in advance
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Formatting & partition problem
Today I ran into a big problem: I was trying to make a bootable OS X thumb drive with Unibeast but haven't been able to format or partition it.
The error shown when i try to format or partition in ...
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Folder/File Name "Truncation" or "Wrapping"
I have been trying to find a solution for a very very long time on how to have the longer names of my folders and files to drop down to a 2nd line when viewing in the "Grid" Icon view in the My Finder ...
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Mac Pro Tower, randomly hanging convinced its a hardware problem but Apple think otherwise
Just about ready to launch this machine out the window it's driving me crazy.
Ok so a rundown of what has happened thus far.
Bought a Mac Pro Tower around 2010, worked like a dream for 3 years then ...
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Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini?
Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Mini
in order to upgrade to OS X 10.6.3 server?
(The Goal: to quit 10.8 Server in order to use Rosetta software again)
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Configure: error: clang version 3.0 or later is required - but I already have it
I'm trying to follow this RVM installation guide, supposedly for Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (I should point out that $ rvm -v returns -bash: rvm: command not found), but when I run $ curl -L https://get.rvm....
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Time and date won't update on Mac
I have set the time and date to update automatically on my Mac running Snow Leopard, however the time and date do not update. I ran ntpdate -q using time.nist.gov & time.asia.apple.com and receive ...
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Startup disk not correctly identified?
I have a Mid-2010 4 core MacPro. I mainly run 10.6.8, as I have a large software investment I'm not ready to abandon. As part of my migration to the present day OS, I have multiple startup drives, 2 ...
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MacBook keeps showing question mark on startup
I am using MacBook 2010 with OS X 10.6.8. Today when I started my laptop it kept showing the Apple logo longer than expected. Then I read online to hold the shift key while booting. Doing that it ...
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Move disk to new hardware?
I've got an OS X Snow Leopard Server config on a Mac Pro 1,1. I can't upgrade any further on that hardware.
However, I've got a spare MacPro 3,1 and wondered if it would be "simple" to just move the ...
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Mac shows desktop without menu bar or Dock after updating Snow Leopard
During a system update on my MacBook (Mac OS X 10.6.8) it restarted and during the restart I have got a screen where it looks like the homepage but doesn't have the menu bar at the top or the Dock at ...
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Stuck on blue screen after running "rm *" in /
I accidentally executed rm * on / and since then I am unable to see my desktop. All I see is a blue screen with spinning gear.
Irony is I somehow missed my OS and other CDs too that came with my Mac. ...
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Mail.app thinks I'm a new user
My laptop locked up (black screen, spinning beachball), and after leaving it to see if it would handle whatever it was doing on its own overnight, I went and held the power button down to force it to ...
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Application folder is empty
I am using OSX - Snow Leopard on my Mac.
I could find the Application folder is empty, please help.
Thank you!
Regards,
Krishna
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Yosemite Install or post-install Boot-up Frozen
The screen I'm on does not have a time remaining estimate, that was the prior screen.
This one simply shows the Apple logo and a plain status bar with no percentage or time indicator.
Perhaps it's ...
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Very sporadic Wi-Fi Issue with Lion (Connection Timeout)
I have tried many a thing to solve this matter. Long and short of it is I am getting the standard "connection timeout error" but only on some networks (which are successfully connected to by other ...
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Problems while compiling ncmpcpp [configure: error: libmpdclient >= 2.1 is required!]
I am trying to compile ncmpcpp|mpd in Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but it failed, since libmpdclient 2.1 dependency is missing. I didn't find any working dependency for libmpdclient 2.1 that uses the gcc ...
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Text cursor freezing, jumping
Sometimes the text cursor stops flashing, and when I type nothing shows up. Then I click the mouse, and suddenly everything I just typed appears, and the cursor's frozen at a new location.
When I ...
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Swapfile and sleepimage file creation?
I recently installed an SDD into my MacPro, and was paying attention to the storage used, both to be comfortable the SSD size was going to be enough, and also that the TM backup hard drive wouldn't ...
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Is there a way to force read a USB flash drive on OSX 10.6.8 that shows up in the system profiler but not on the desktop?
USB High-Speed Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built-in USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x3b3c
PCI Revision ID: 0x0006
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: ...
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Signature shows too BIG to recipients
I am using Apple Mail 4.6 and have simple text lines for my signature. Even though I have the "match text in email" box checked, the signature shows as much larger (obnoxiously large) to many ...
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