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Hello, Long time lurker, first time poster... After my 2012 MBP bit the dust last year I've been using workarounds on a 2016 MBP as my main work machine. I've been using Adobe CS6 and am happy with it for print production work - I really don't need anything newer or fancier. However... you...

I recently upgraded from 10.7 Lion to 10.13 High Sierra. In Lion, I was using the following Terminal commands: (For Preview) defaults write -app 'preview' ApplePersistence -bool no (For TextEdit) defaults write -app 'textedit' ApplePersistence -bool no defaults write -app textedit...

Hi :) I tried to install OS X Yosemite on a Late 2006 MacBook Pro 15" with MacPostFactor. After the installation failed with small Recovery, I unchecked the "Small-Recovery" Box and retried installing. The Mac is now stuck in a bootloop. It says "Creating MacPostFactor Recovery (with...

Hello, I've been trying to reset this Macbook's Log in password for like two days now it belongs to my cousin's deceased friend, i've done this before with my brother's Macbook Air twice because he has the memory of a goldfish. anyway the issue with this Macbook that i cant access the...

Hi, I was watching a movie and suddenly my mac froze and it didn’t let me force quit the apps, so I turned it off from the power button, and when I turned it on back again, I got the chime sound but nothing happened after that. Didn’t even get to the logo, just a white screen stucked in the...

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that I am attempting to upgrade for the purposes of updating it to El Capitan. I hadn't used the computer in a year or two, and there was not an HDD installed in the system. (I pulled drive from it a while back for another project) When I stopped using it a few years ago...

How to install Mac OS Lion in a Macbook Pro 2.33Ghz 2Gb ram HD with Tiger? The complete specs of the machine: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.33-15-specs.html I am using the Mac Os Tiger (the same that came with the machine) in dual boot with...

A few days back, I decided to go back to Lion (the OS that originally shipped with my Late 2011 MBP. I did this for a few reasons: 1. lack of an ssd. The new macOSs are designed to be used with Fusion drives or SSDs. Having neither, I decided to go with 10.7 2. Lack of 8Gb RAM: I have 4GB, was...

Hello,, I just bought a new iMac 20,5" 2017 model. I portioned my disk so I could install Mac OS X Lion on the other one. I made a bootable flash disk (Using disk utility, carbon copy cloner,...) using different tutorial so I guess the flash disk is fine. When I try to boot up from the flash...

Hello I bought my 13 inch MBP (2.4ghz i5, 4gb RAM, 500 SATA HDD) in 2011 with OSX 10.7 preinstalled. It worked super well back then, and eventually it was put in a closet for 3 years due to the emergence of my parent's old powermac g5, which I began to use as my primary mac. After 3 years of...

I have a MP 1 1, which previously had working versions of both 10.6.8 and 10.7.5, using a GeForce210 card. After a firmware failure on an HD and corruption of the 10.7 OS, I have been stuck without a usable OS. I have been trying to reinstall 10.7 despite not having access to a working screen...

I have a 1TB internal startup disk installed into my Mid-2011 iMac. I would like to do a clean install of the original OS shipped with this system (Lion) and have a partition for the most up to date OS (Sierra) which will be my day-to-day usage. Is it possible to run a DualBoot system with two...

Some time ago I downloaded and ran successfully Xcode 4.3.3 and Xcode 4.4 simultaneously. Then, troubleshooting I deleted them, wiping out all files referencing to both Xcode versions through Terminal. I then re-downloaded 4.3.3 and was able to launch and run it, however 4.4 which I...

As you can see with lion has more memory. But give a lower score .... Why is this? there's a solution?

I have an old iMac with a Core 2 Duo from 2006. It's running Snow Leopard, but I'll be upgrading it to Lion tonight. Now since Firefox 49 recently dropped support for 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8, what is the current best browser for lion? I suppose Firefox 48 will work for quite a while, maybe a year...

Hi all, I have a situation involving my editing software and needing to upgrade my OS. I'm running Lion on my Mac Pro early 2008, and using FCP 7. My question has to do with an older drive that I have installed in my tower. I took the original hard drive out of an older Mac Pro running Snow...

Hi guys, don't know if I should ask here for this, but here is my Issue. I have a late 2007 macbook (3,1) and I want to upgrade the OS. The latest version it officially supports is Lion. I was able to install Mountain Lion with MLpostFactor (everything worked, had to go back to lion because of a...

Good Morning, I'm new here, so I hope this question hasn't already been asked. First off, I have a Mac Pro G5 Tower, that has been maxed out into running 10.7.5 due to its original age - I bought it in 2014 refurbished, but the original born date was 2007, a hurdle that has made many of my...

Hello All, So, I am the original owner of a very reliable and well-deserving 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 Here's a little story of my history and recent upgrades. Geekbench 3 and temperature comparisons at the bottom. I purchased this machine new, having been through numerous Apple lemons at the time...

Hello! I've been having password problems for the past month or so. I first noticed that I couldn't update Flash because the installer rejected my system password. Today I tried to solve the problem, looking online for fixes, but nothing has worked so far. 1) Tried to reset my password on...