Mac book wont install software updates
mac book wont install software updates
Dog74,
what does it do when you try to install a software update?
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Mac won't install Software Updates
I have a PPC G5 1.8 running 10.5.8 leopard. I try to run the updater and it tries but in the end it says software not updated volume "/". Please help.
Some general advice on updating:
It is worth noting that it is an extreme rarity for updates to cause upsets to your system, as they have all been extensively beta-tested, but they may well reveal pre-existing ones, particularly those of which you may have been unaware. If you are actually aware of any glitches, make sure they are fixed before proceeding further.
So before you do anything else:
If you can, make a full backup first to an external hard disk. Ideally you should always have a bootable clone of your system that enables you to revert to the previous pre-update state.
Turn off sleep mode for both screen and hard disk.
Disconnect all peripherals except your keyboard and mouse.
1. Repair Permissions (in Disk Utility)
2. Verify the state of your hard disk using Disk Utility. If any faults are reported, restart from your install disk (holding down the C key), go to Disk Utility, and repair your startup disk. Restart again to get back to your startup disk.
At least you can now be reasonably certain that your system does not contain any obvious faults that might cause an update/upgrade to fail.
3. Download the correct version of the COMBO update from the Apple download site.
The Combo updater of Leopard 10.5.8 can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate
If you prefer to download updates via Software Update in the Apple menu (which would ensure that the correct version for your Mac was being downloaded), it is not recommended to allow SU to install major (or even minor) updates automatically. Set Software Update to just download the updater without immediately installing it. There is always the possibility that the combined download and install (which can be a lengthy process) might be interrupted by a power outage or your cat walking across the keyboard, and an interrupted install will almost certainly cause havoc. Once it is downloaded, you can install at a time that suits you. You should make a backup copy of the updater on a CD in case you ever need a reinstall.
Full details about the 10.5.8 update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3606
More information on using Software Updater here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US
Using the Combo updater ensures that all system files changed since the original 10.5.0 are included, and any that may have been missed out or subsequently damaged will be repaired. The Delta updater, although a temptingly smaller download, only takes you from the previous version to the new one, i.e. for example from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8. Software Update will generally download the Delta updater only. The preferable Combo updater needs to be downloaded from Apple's download site.
Now proceed as follows:
4. Close all applications and turn off energy saving and screensaver.
5. Unplug all peripherals except your keyboard and mouse.
6. Install the update/upgrade. Do not under any circumstances interrupt this procedure. Do not do anything else on your computer while it is installing. Be patient.
7. When it ask for a restart to complete the installation, click restart. This can take longer than normal, there are probably thousands of files to overwrite and place in the correct location. Do nothing while this is going on.
8. Once your Mac is awake, repair permissions again, and you should be good to go!
If your Mac seems slightly sluggish or ‘different’, perform a second restart. It can’t hurt and is sometimes efficacious!
9. Open a few of your most used applications and check that all is OK. In this connection please remember that not all manufacturers of third party applications and plug-ins, add-ons, haxies etc, will have had time to do any necessary rewrites to their software to make them compliant with the latest version of your operating system. Give them a weeks or two while you regularly check their websites for updates. This applies particularly to plug-ins for Safari 4.
N.B. Do not attempt to install two different updates at the same time as each may have different routines and requirements. Follow the above recommendations for each update in turn.
Lastly, Apple's own article on the subject of Software Update may also be useful reading:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106695
If you are updating Safari (or just have):
Input Managers from third parties can do as much harm as good. They use a security loophole to reach right into your applications' code and change that code as the application starts up. If you have installed an OS update and Safari is crashing, the very first thing to do is clear out your InputManagers folders (both in your own Library and in the top-level /Library), log out and log back in, and try again.
So, disable all third party add-ons before updating Safari, as they may not have been updated yet for the new version. Add them back one by one. If something goes awry, remove it again and check on the software manufacturer's website for news of an update to match your version of Safari.
Most errors reported here after an update are due to an unrepaired or undetected inherent fault in the system, and/or a third party add-on.
Additional tips on software installation here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692
To reiterate, Input Managers reach right into an application and alter its code. This puts the behavior of the affected application outside the control and responsibility of its developers: a recipe for problems. That's not to say that issues absolutely will ensue as a result of Input Managers, but you, as a user, must decide. If the functionality of a specific Input Manager or set thereof is really important to you, you may well choose to assume the associated risk.
Again, the advice is to remove all Input Managers from the following directories:
• /Library/InputManagers
• ~/Library/InputManagers
especially prior to system updates (they can always be added back one-by-one later). -
Using Mac OSX to instal software update on N73
Anybody know if it's poss to do this on a Mac without having to use a PC. the latest software for N73 is an .EXE file....
27-Feb-2008 10:05 AM
friedbrains wrote:
27-Feb-2008 01:11 PM
ajh16 wrote:
thanks, I'll see if I can get the use of a PC laptop then. Will that do it?
sure will...
If owner of borrowed laptop does not want it cluttered up you don't have to install PC Suite, as if Nokia Software Updater is installed it downloads and install PC Connectivity Solutions at the same time.
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Mac book pro downloaded software update and now it wont start. Ideas?
macbook pro downloaded iOS6 and then when I rebooted i get a blank screen with apple logo and 3 beeps. What to do?
Three beeps on startup usually indicates bad RAM. Have you replaced your RAM modules recently? One or both modules may have just failed. The best thing you can do is take your machine to your local Apple Store or AASP and have them run diagnostics. I don't think it would have anything to do with an iOS download.
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My macbook air is stuck at the "installing software updated" screen while installing update for the osX. What should I do?
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
If your Mac has been installing software updates for a long time, Software Update is probably frozen. Hold the Power button until your MacBook Air turns off, and turn it on again. OS X should start up. -
Tried to buy Aperture 3 and got an error message Aperture can’t be installed on “Macintosh HD” because Mac OS X version 10.7.2 or later is required. You can update Mac OS X using Software Update. Problem is, I had already updated my IMac to Lion OS
iPhoto 9.3 requires OS X 10.7.4 now. You can use your actual version of iPhoto or upgrade to Lion (or wait to Mountain Lion)
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My mac book pro has three updates ready to install. When I select all three of them and click install it shows them downloading, the computer restarts, and when the computer turns back on and I go to updates again they are still there to install. Help
Best to install them one at a time, re-booting between each one.
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Can anyone give me a suggestion how to restart my system if possible or stop the installing software update that has been idle for over 6 hours?
Press and hold the power button for 10 seconds.
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Problem description:
mac mail not opening, software updates not working, app store not opening. 10.9.5
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated 1 December 2014 16:51:49 CET
Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac10,1
1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
12 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 0/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM1
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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iMac 1920 x 1080
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HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N
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Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
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Western Digital My Book 1140 2 TB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
2TB (disk2s2) /Volumes/2TB : 2.00 TB (1.50 TB free)
Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTE-450
Contour Design ShuttlePRO v2
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
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Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X
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Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
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Un-install according to the developer's un-install instructions.
You do not need to use cleaning programs. They can destroy your computer operation as they may already have done.
CleanMyMac - Uninstall
CleanMyMac2 Un-install
After un-installing, run this program to make sure you got all the pieces.
EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement
Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this. -
My screen is locked on installing software updates.. Says done in1 min. That was 12 hrs ago.. Help
My Mac book Air screen is stuck on " installing software update". Says done in 1 min. That was 10 hrs ago. Cannot do anything at all. Cannot shut down or anything.. Help
Hold the power button down for 10+ seconds and the MBA should shut down.
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Installed software updates do not show
Hello Any and All: I just now am getting around to this question- a month ago (OK maybe 7 weeks) I had a warranty replacement of hard drive and the cable that connects it.
Since, the only software updates showing in the log are from the night I got it.
I have run updates- just did some a while ago. I watched the window, it said installing and all that, required the restart....
But they are not in the installed updates log.
Anyone: am I getting the updates do you think? And does it matter? And, any idea why it is doing this (besides the fact it is my computer and it has been from minute one, a total pain, to be as generous as mother teresa.....)??????
I will look for answers in the morning. Thanks.Hey there Tuttle!! Yeah, I am hanging in... the heat was rough to work in, but a few more fronts and I made it through! I had good check up at the dermatologist, and now will be on a semi-annual check, instead of the quarterly I had been (having been drafted into the M club... but my doc found it tiny, so, Knock wood, I should be cool until the next cell goes wackjob and proliferates...) OUR hurricane was slowest traveller on record around here, but of those beasts, the best specimen to have come by....except on the coast that had it a bit rougher than I did....the eywall scraped the beach like a perfect tangent....
back to topic though: First THANKS for the response!
I went to System profile first, and opened applications.... ( I should have written down all the updates that came in- 6 in first, then the security update)
I recall one being an iPod updater, and one for iPod to phone update [{(how do the batteries do in a music playing phone?)}] and a quicktime update- it said if you have QTpro, you'll need a new key (I delayed that from a few days back, until I had time to read that it was only Pro that would need to pay again...).... I forget the other updates-
Anyway, I find in system pref's no quicktime with a date anywhere near now: but it is 7.0.2 (date 8/31/05- could that have been the one I delayed?)
In the iPod I have an 8/17/05 and an updater with 10/01/05 date.
I see the java plugins made it(2.2.0) dated 10/01/05- ah, the iTunes is there
Oh good,there is updater...and Applet Launcher...java webstart too....
Cool, as far as the profiler goes, it looks like all got put in....
OK, then I went to the apple menu like you said, but before I did "about this mac," I did a software update, and it said I am up to date- so there is some confirmation too... the about says 10.3.9 (as I have not gotten tiger yet... that too would mean a new Qt key... it is a riot of fees in cyberspace..golly!) I had bought iwork and ilife, before tiger -which they offered in a package discount all three together- but not AFTER having bought the other two...bad timing.
So, anyway, Now I go to the last item you taught me to check: Library receipts.
Um, everything at first glance is identical- the orange exterior box with yellow interior.....except:Install log file, and CIA Core Installer Log. The latter of two just mentioned, upon opening seems to be related to my HP printer.
Oh, OK: so is the Installer log file (related to the HP Printer).....
Name of science < i opened GIMP-Print installer package, but it is just a receipt and cannot be opened...
OK, now this has turned into a book, eh? hahahahaha
Do you know of a way to make the system pref's software update show installed updates worK? I suppose I may be able to remember what you just showed me.... Since the last drive and cable (was it the cable all along??) I have been enjoying the computer I thought I had ordered...yehaaa!!- then this.
hahahahaha Compared to before< I can deal I am pretty sure. As long is it is not simply the first of a billin domino's about to go blasting around inside my machine. hahhahaha
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I'm trying to download java on my Mac machine but the software update doesn't show me anything. Please advise what I should do to get the application.
If you can run it under chrome, you have java installed.
There was some malware that exploited an older version of Java (not javascript) running in a Browser. Since few people use it Apple turned off Java by default in the Safari Browser.
If you need it for something, just turn it back on in Safari preferences (inside Safari). After a few months of non-use, you may find it has turned itself off again. -
CAN I INSTALL SOFTWARE UPDATES TO MY MACBOOK PRO WHICH I BROUGHT FROM U.S.A & I'M USING IT IN INDIA??? PLS SAY YES OR NO
URGENT !!It shouldnt matter where you purchased the computer. Just log into the Mac App Store and you will be able to update the software.
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How do i clean up my macbook air to install software updates?
how do i clean up my macbook air to install software updates? It says that I need to clean up the startup disk because I do not have enough space left but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone help me?
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight as described here. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can also use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
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