Upgrade problematic SMC firmware 1.7 on 2011 MacBook Pro before OS X upgrade?
I'll soon be installing OS X Mountain Lion on a 15" early-2011 MacBook Pro (8,2) currently running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8). Should I upgrade its SMC firmware to the problematic v1.7 (which had number of battery-related or system-power problems reported about it in early 2013, if not since then) before the OS upgrade? (This firmware update was put out to users to "address a rare issue on some Apple notebooks where a battery that has accumulated more than 1000 charge cycles may unexpectedly shut down or stop functioning”; my Mac's battery has gone through just 352 cycles.)
Apple's EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs table says my Mac should have 1.69f4 (SMC 1.7), but that table as recently as mid-April this year listed instead 1.69f3 (SMC 1.5) as what my Mac should have (and that's the version it does have); and the current download page for that firmware, MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.7 (though dated Dec 12, 2012) says it requires OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.2 - Lion or Mountain Lion.
I seem to remember that SMC firmware version disappearing from my Mac's Software Update listings, some while after I'd kept putting off choosing to install it because of the problems I'd read about it (including at least one reporting nightmarish troubles on same machine as mine) and because it didn't seem critical at my stage of battery life. Given the apparent ambiguity about which SMC firmware my Mac should or can have, and ensuing unwanted troubles after installation reported by at least a few folks, can I confidently install Mountain Lion without that SMC version, and then try to install it afterward?
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD
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