HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6 will not install under Mountain Lion

I have older Base Station Extreme and Airport Express models that need to be looked after; however, the fix to install Airport Utility 5.6 under Lion will not work under Mountain Lion. The installer complains that "the version of Mac OS X on this volume is not supported". So...suggestions?

That is correct. AirPort Utility 5.6 for OS X Lion will NOT install under OS X Mountain Lion. If you had it already installed, and then upgraded, it would have worked just fine.
One option, is to use Pacifist to extract the utility directly from the .dmg file.

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HT5022 What works with Mountain Lion? AirPort Utility 5.6 will not install on Mountain Lion.

What gives? The AirPort Utility 5.6 wil not load on a computer running Mountain Lion. Attempted both on an iMac and Macbook.

That is correct, the 5.6 version of the AirPort Utility will not install under Mountain Lion ... but it will run on it once installed. One option is to use a utility, like Pacifist, to extract and "install" the utility into the Utilities folder.

HT5022 AirPort Utility 5.6 will not install on Lion

I have an older airport express and I'd like to be able to manage it the new Aiprot utulity is not compatible and the older version of Airport Utility 5.6 is not able to be installed on Lion.

Be sure that you are attempting to install the correct version (5.6) that is designed to work on OS X Lion. You can download it directly from Apple Support here.

HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6 would not install

Airport Utility 5.6 would not install on my MacBook Pro with 10.7.5 (Lion): "The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance." Hello, Apple?

Use the workaround described in this thread: How do I configure an Airport Express when I get this message in Airport Utility? "This version of AirPort Utility doesn’t support this base station."
Pay attention to the caveat in the final paragraph, restated here for emphasis:
Keep in mind that Apple's decision to abandon support for your original AirPort Express was for reasons known only to them. Remember that you are using obsolete equipment, should some future OS X feature not work for you.

Epson ICC profiles will not install in Mountain Lion

I have an Epson R1900 printer which requiress icc profiles. The generally agreed route has been to use those from Epson of America and these work fine on my PC. On the Mac however only the matte set will install. The glossy profiles bring up an error stating that I do not have enough permissions to complete the install. I believe this was also a known issue in Lion and I have found one suggested solution which was to adjust permissions in Colorsync and Profile folders in the Library.
However, in Mountain Lion this did not work for me. Does anyone else have success in installing these profiles?
Previous discussion here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3319527?start=0&tstart=0

I just used the Pacifist tool to peer into the Oct 4, Epson Printer Drivers v2.12 for OS X package. In particular, for the R1900, both sets of the ICC profiles are installed into the following paths. Supporting code for this printer is installed under the InkjetPrinter2 hierarchy.
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/SPR1900_A.profiles/Contents/R esources
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/SPR1900_W.profiles/Contents/R esources
The AutoSetupTool is installed in:
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/AutoSetupTool/EPIJAutoSetupTool2.app
Everything in the above paths is owned by root with group admin. The individual R1900 .icc files are read/write by root, read-only by everyone else. There are two categories of .icc files for the R1900 as shown below:
Stylus Pro R1900 A Profiles
Stylus Pro R1900 W Profiles

External USB drives will not mount under Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
Both drives are Samsung Story external USB drives (one is 1.5 GB and the other is 2 GB) and both have been formatted using Mac Disk Utility with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, one using Snow Leopard and the other with Lion.
Both still mount correctly on a friends MacBook Pro that is still running Snow Leopard, and I had no problem with the same drives under Lion. Interestingly both can also be connected to Time Capsule USB port and show up correctly.
Both drives mount correctly under Windows 7 on BootCamp partitions that I have on both the 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27. These BootCamp partitions have Paragon HFS+ installed so I can read Mac formated drives.
Both drives show up in Disk Utility, but when attempt to mount the drives I get the message "The disk could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and retry mounting." I can run Repair in First Aid on the disk and get the message that the volume appears OK, but again have the same problem when I attempt to mount the disk.
I have also tried using Disk Utility 3,2, but still cannot mount the drives, though the program indicates there is no problem with the drives.
I have other portable USB including a Samsung portable USB2 drive, and two external USB3 drives, and I don't have problems with them.
There is clearly a problem with Mountain Lion with accessing (mounting) these Samsung Story USB drives, and the problem appears to be with Mountain Lion itself as the problem did not occur on the same Macs with Lion and does not occur with Bootcamp partitions on the machines.
I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
I sure hope someone can help or that Apple come up with a fix for this issue which has only developed since the update to Mountain Lion.

bj10au wrote:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
Both drives are Samsung Story external USB drives (one is 1.5 GB and the other is 2 GB) and both have been formatted using Mac Disk Utility with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, one using Snow Leopard and the other with Lion.
Both still mount correctly on a friends MacBook Pro that is still running Snow Leopard, and I had no problem with the same drives under Lion. Interestingly both can also be connected to Time Capsule USB port and show up correctly.
Both drives mount correctly under Windows 7 on BootCamp partitions that I have on both the 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27. These BootCamp partitions have Paragon HFS+ installed so I can read Mac formated drives.
Both drives show up in Disk Utility, but when attempt to mount the drives I get the message "The disk could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and retry mounting." I can run Repair in First Aid on the disk and get the message that the volume appears OK, but again have the same problem when I attempt to mount the disk.
I have also tried using Disk Utility 3,2, but still cannot mount the drives, though the program indicates there is no problem with the drives.
I have other portable USB including a Samsung portable USB2 drive, and two external USB3 drives, and I don't have problems with them.
There is clearly a problem with Mountain Lion with accessing (mounting) these Samsung Story USB drives, and the problem appears to be with Mountain Lion itself as the problem did not occur on the same Macs with Lion and does not occur with Bootcamp partitions on the machines.
I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
I sure hope someone can help or that Apple come up with a fix for this issue which has only developed since the update to Mountain Lion.
You can start here
http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/flash/213059/213059_EN.HTML
Pete

How to download but not install OSX Mountain Lion on Mavericks

Hi all
I would like to download but not install OSX Mountain Lion on my MBP which is currently running OSX Mavericks.
This however seems impossible. I think OSX Mavericks were already installed on my MBP and therefore it seems "impossible" to download it.
Now, why would I to do this? The answer is quite reasonable, due to certain demands related to an application portfolio I need Mountain Lion, because the portfolio is not upgraded to run on Mavericks. And, it is more reasonable to downgrade a version of OSX, rather waiting for the portfolio upgrade which can take years.
Yes, I need to downgrade my secondary MBP which also came with preinstalled Mavericks. This can be done, if I only could download but not install Moutain Lion.
It should be easy enough; download Mountain Lion, make an installer and make a bootable thumb usb stick. Then erase Mavericks and install Mountain Lion.
I have previously bought Mountain Lion so it is accessible to me in the App Store, but whenever I try to hit the Download button, I get a message saying this can't be done, since I am running Mavericks.
This bugs me, it should be obvious users needs the flexibility to swap whatever OSX version they need. It is still software.
So, how can I download but not install Mountain Lion on my newer MBP that came with preinstalled Mavericks?
I would like to see answers like:
"In order to get this to work, you first have to disable the locking mechanism in [...] " instead of "No, this is impossible to do"
Regards

Thanks for your reply Eric
Can't help wondering thought, people are ok with this?
Basically Apple are saying: "Do not attempt to install an older version of OSX which came preinstalled. If so, expect multiple failures." Really?! Has it always been so? For me it's not like I'm going to install Snow Leopard on my Late 2013 Retina MBP, but I would expect some form of backward compatibility between the previous version and it successor. Apparently this is not possible, and how is this even acceptable?
Personally, I am not going to downgrade, as if I had a choice, but I would and I expected however, the possibility to at least download the previous OSX version. What do you do if you have bought several applications, not necessarily online from App Store and buy yourself a new Mac with preinstalled Mavericks and after installing your "old" applications they fail to work properly? What do you do since downgrading apparently is not an option. So... again, what do you do?
If you don't have friends with an older Mac, you could be facing serious problems. And I'm not talking about gaming, but serious business.
I find this quite disturbing actually, and please tell me it's not so. There gotta be a way to do this?
I simply want to download the OS but I expect some registry values (like windows' registry) keeps preventing this.
It should be possible to simply download and not download and install in one operation, shouldn't it?
Regards

ARD 3.6 not launching under mountain lion?

I updated to mountain lion - 10.8. ARD 3.6 will open but no windows respond and/or any and all menu commands are completely ignored. i.e. meaning the program launches and displays menus at top of my screen but selecting any command or drop down (scanner / lists etc...) results in absolutely nothing. I have no idea how to fix or reinstall since I purchased from apple before app store app. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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18 GB Ram
OSX 10.8

That is correct. AirPort Utility 5.6 for OS X Lion will NOT install under OS X Mountain Lion. If you had it already installed, and then upgraded, it would have worked just fine.
One option, is to use Pacifist to extract the utility directly from the .dmg file.

Frame 7.2 will not install under Windows 7 Ultimate

HELP: FrameMake2 7.2 does not install under Windows 7. Almost at the end of the install it crashes with an empty dialogbox and a warning. Nothing else.
Any one seen this,
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For more info on running things in compatibility mode, these links should help:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-o f-Windows
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html
There's also a free "XP" add-on that runs apps in a virtual mode with Win7. See:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
There's also another freebie virtual-machine that will allow you to run most older apps available at:
http://www.virtualbox.org/

YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES - FLASH WILL NOT INSTALL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Does anyone from Adobe support read this forum??? Adobe Flash will NOT install on a Mac. It hangs at either 95% or 97% depending on which download link is followed. IT WILL NOT FINISH THE INSTALL. I have uninstalled and tried SIX installs - back to back - and it stalls. IT WILL NOT COMPLETE THE INSTALL. You have been aware of this problem for months and have not fixed the installer. I BOUGHT A MAC, NOT ADOBE FLASH, but I am forced to use it. SO FIX IT!!!!!!

Does anyone from Adobe support read this forum??? Adobe Flash will NOT install on a Mac. It hangs at either 95% or 97% depending on which download link is followed. IT WILL NOT FINISH THE INSTALL. I have uninstalled and tried SIX installs - back to back - and it stalls. IT WILL NOT COMPLETE THE INSTALL. You have been aware of this problem for months and have not fixed the installer. I BOUGHT A MAC, NOT ADOBE FLASH, but I am forced to use it. SO FIX IT!!!!!!

HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6 won't install. Gets to the last step and fails. Why?

I have an older Airport Extreme so I need to install Airport Utility 5.6 as 6 does not recognize it. The download goes fine and installation proceeds until the last step of the installation (cleaning up) when it fails. I'm using Lion. Suggestions?

Apple will not let you install AirPort Utility 5.6 on Lion 10.7.4 (or 10.7.5) if you have updated the operating system.
You might want to study a workaround in this thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21397085#21397085
This is not officially supported by Apple, so it may or may not work for you.....if you want to give it a try.

HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6.1 didn't work with Lion 10.7.4 So I can't install my AirPort Express (Late 2008) !!!!!!!!!!!

Iа somebody can instruct me how to install "old" airport express 5.6.1 on Lion 10.7.4 ?

The info notes on AirPort Utility 5.6.1 indicate that it will not run on Lion 10.7.x. It will run on Snow Leopard 10.6.x or Leopard Macs 10.5.x.
AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion is what you need, as it can be used on your Mac running Lion to configure both the original and previous generation AirPort Express models.

Airport Utility 5.6 does not install on to OS 10.7.5

I am trying to setup my older model Airport Express A1084 so that it will work with my MacBook Pro. I am currently running Mac OS X v. 10.7.5 and understand that I need to install Airport utility 5.6 on to my macbook in order to setup the Airport express. Please let me know what I need to do to get this issue fixed. Thank you.

Follow the instructions posted by forum expert Tesserax in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21397085#21397085

HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6 does not fix the old Airport Express!

My old airport express does not work anymore - the Airport Utility 5.6 makes changes but after re-starting, the Airport Express cannot be found. Now I am forced to buy a new one. Not good (and sold out as many experienced the same apparently)

Do you get any sort of error message when you try to install, and if so what does it say?

Airport Utility 5.1 - DO NOT INSTALL

Sorry for sounding so alarming. I have been running Airport Utility 5.0 with my Airport Extreme-N and Airport Express. Airtunes has been working well with both.
However, as soon as I installed today's update version 5.1, it started cutting out again, dropping my shared library from the network and making Airtunes impossible to listen to.
I don't know why Apple is having so much trouble getting this software right. Anyway, I restored to version 5.0 and it's working fine again, although I need to keep the Utility open at all times to get Airtunes or Shared Libraries to work on my PC.

Follow the instructions posted by forum expert Tesserax in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21397085#21397085

HT5022 Airport Utility 5.6 will not install under Mountain Lion

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