Download of update in Mountain Lion has disabled my Wifi. Why
For at least the third time, I have downloaded an update to Mountain Lion and it has disabled my wifi! Why? Can anyone help?
The pop up saying there were updates to my OS (Mountain Lion) available and I chose the Update button which restarted my MacBook. When it restarted, it would no longer connect to the Wifi. When I went to Network Preferences, the Wifi is turned off and will not allow me to turn back on. Additionally, the device does not recognize any networks and just continues to "search" for them.
This is the 3rd time this has happened to me when downloading updates to the OS! Every other time has required support to get involved. I am wondering how many other people this has happened to?
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Downloading and Updating, OSX Mountain Lion App Store
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Quit the App Store.
Open System Prerferences > Security & Privacy then select the General tab.
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Updating to Mountain Lion has caused me to lose Adobe Creative Suite - is it possible to upgrade?
I have recently had to upgrade to mountain lion for my new iPhone 5, however this has caused me to loose my much loved Adobe Creative Suite. As soon the upgrade was completed my photoshop, illustrator and acrobat icons had a white symbol over them that looks like a no entry sign. When I click on it a pop up window appears that says 'You can't open the application because PowerPC applications are not supported. It is an old version of creative suite (the first I think) but I can't afford to buy a new one. Does anyone know whether its possible to upgrade or a solution?
emmmmmm wrote:
I have recently had to upgrade to mountain lion for my new iPhone 5, however this has caused me to loose my much loved Adobe Creative Suite. As soon the upgrade was completed my photoshop, illustrator and acrobat icons had a white symbol over them that looks like a no entry sign. When I click on it a pop up window appears that says 'You can't open the application because PowerPC applications are not supported. It is an old version of creative suite (the first I think) but I can't afford to buy a new one. Does anyone know whether its possible to upgrade or a solution?
It must be a very old version of Adobe. I run CS4 and my son runs CS5 with no issues and I believe CS3 can run under ML although I have not seen it as such, only read it here.
Upgrading is expensive but well worth it if you use Adobe regularly. You can always run Snow Leopard on another partition or external drive and run your old AdobeCS within that if you want.
Good Luck
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Software Update in Mountain Lion
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In Lion software update provided you with a progress bar when it went out to check for new software. In Lion when new software was available you could click on the Details button and receive information about the program AND its size.
In ML, you are taken to the app store and there is just a spinning sprocket while it checks for new software. This in itself is not an issue, just a different design. What is an issue for me is the information provided when you click on the details button. Using HP Printer Software Update 2.10 as an example, when I asked for details and clicked on "more" it let me to a knowledge base article that spoke of updating printer software. What is missing is the vital piece about the size of the file to download. Only when I clicked Update did I discover that the file I was downloading was 107.6 mb.
I do not want to have software downloaded or installed in the background when I am working. I would like to know the size of the file I am downloading before starting that process since there is only so much bandwidth. Is there a way to determine the size of the file before I download it on each of the Macs?
I realizle that I can go to Apple's Download page and download the new software manually but that defeats the purpose of the Software update program IMO.
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Thanks for your advice.
Jaythanks for answer.
Maybe, I mean the folder /Library/Updates
I think this is the folder where Software Update (App Store) download automatic update (with Mountain Lion)
my folder contains only dlist and extrainfo file, but not the full file of the notification update
I ask this because I disabled the automatic download so I want to know if some update was downloaded (when the option was enabled)
it seems not
Bye
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Now that OSX Mountain Lion has been released, can I still buy OSX Lion to update my 2009 Mac?
I have a 2009 MacBook running OSX Snow Leopard with the latest update. I wanted to upgrade to the new Mountain Lion but I got the message that my system couldn't run it. So now I'm wondering if I can upgrade to the Lion 10.7 OS but I can't find it anywhere in the iTunes store or the Apple online store. Plenty of places to download the 10.7.x upgrades but not the OS. So, is it no longer available now that Mountain Lion has been released? Or do I have to visit a store to buy the disk?
You have to Call Apple, 1-800-My-Apple, and order it over the phone. Apple will then send you a email with a Code in it to download it from the MAS.
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my macbook pro (with retina) has stalled whilst installing an update of mountain lion, the blue bar has stopped progressing, it has frozen and hasn't moved, I can't cancel the installation, I can't shutdown the computer, can't restart it, nothing...help!
Thanks for sharing...
To the OP - I had a upgrade from the App Store 'stall' on me last week - I couldn't even Force Quit the App Store app. I ended up just powering down with the power button and when I logged back into the App Store, the update finished downloading in seconds and I was ready to begin installation.
Try that and see if it works for you...
Clinton -
When updating to Mountain Lion I get this measage
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never had this before download of Mountain Lion.As others have stated, this is a potentially catastrophic event. Consider yourself lucky, as hard drives usually just fail wihtout warning. Your disk could die at any time. This is a mechanical / physical failure, not software related.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4794375?start=0&tstart=0 -
Keeping getting an error with-in the App Store. Error 100 saying that my payment can't be received at the time. I updated to Mountain Lion to download the new Logic Pro X. Now left with now recording software and it's not letting me buy the new one.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), trying to get Logic Pro XHello jst84,
The following article may be helpful in getting your purchase to complete.
Mac App Store: "An unknown error occurred (100)" when purchasing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3637
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I just downloaded the newest update for mountain lion. After downloading any restarting for installation, I got a message stating that the update cannot be installed due to an error. Yet when I check I have version 10..8.3 and safari version 6.0.3, which the update was for. Does this mean that the update is iinstalled and the message was incorrect?
Brian Gallagher wrote:
I just bought the Imac on Monday, which was placed on the shelf on Saturday. Its now Thursday and I have to update the machine. Heck I haven't even bought the printer or the new desk for all this stuff....ha ha.
Good timing! Oh well, at least you shouldn't have to update again for a while. It will be nice kickstarting your Mac with the very latest System Update knowing any hiccups from 10.8.2 would have been ironed out if they were going to affect your workflow at all.
Cheers and Happy Computing
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