Patch 5.41 contains content that can only be accessed by registering the expansion packs for FINAL FANTASY XIV to your service account. To distinguish between adjustments that are and are not affected by the registration of these expansions, the following notations will be used throughout the patch notes. Jun 15, 2015 Dumping OS 9 for the NeXT-derived OS X—a necessary and painful step. Moving from the dead-end of PowerPC processors to an Intel architecture. Embracing Microsoft to bring Office back to the Mac.
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For individual operating system tips of affected operating systems, see the tips in these links: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6,10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10,10.11,10.12, 10.13, and 10.1410.6.8 and earlier users wanting to upgrade need to read this tip in its entirety.Systems discussed on this tip include: 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave. Their code names will be referred to when the info apply to all versions of those systems
As of last writing of this tip, the only available upgrades to 10.6.6 are 10.6.7, 10.6.8, 10.7, and you can take 10.7 up to 10.7.5 Combo, Supplemental update, and 10.7.5 Security Update 2014-004 followed by 10.7.5 Bash update. The only available upgrades to 10.6.8 are 10.7, 10.8,and 10.11,10.7.5 users can go up to Mac OS 10.12 Sierra. (available again link added on 10/1/2018)or via 10.11 then upgrade to 10.13.10.8 users and higher can go to Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra (is still available as of 9/30/2018)10.11 users and higher can go to Mac OS 10.14 Mojave.
The only Snow Leopard compatible Mac that is compatible also with Mojave is the Mac Pro 5,1 with specific graphics cards. Look at the Mojave tip for more information. There are no Catalina (Mac OS 10.15) compatible Macs also compatible with Snow Leopard.
While you may need 10.7.5 to upgrade to Sierra, and 10.8 to High Sierra, a few Macs which shipped new with 10.6.1 or later, may be updated to 10.7, then 10.7.5 to get to Sierra, or 10.8 to High Sierra. This tip below discusses how to upgrade from 10.4.4 through 10.6.8 to 10.7 or later.
10.8 can be taken up to 10.8.5. 10.9, and 10.10 are not available anymore from the App Store unless you previously purchased it or your Mac shipped with it, however their free updates are still available.10.9 can be taken to 10.9.5, 10.10 to 10.10.5, and 10.11 to 10.11.6.
10.6.8 can be taken to 10.11, but not without following the guidelines below to assure compatibility.
If you find you are compatible only with those operating systems, you may be able to discuss with App Store or AppleCare to get those available for you. First though continue reading this tip as you may not be able to get past 10.6.8 without jumping through many hoops. Note if you update to 10.11, iPhoto and certain printer and scanner drivers may no longer be available.
Rosetta, the application you never knew you had, is gone starting with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra all lack it).
It is not in any shape or form related to the language translation teaching tool by the same name.
It is the background program that lets Intel Macs run applications written for Mac OS X at a timewhen PowerPC Macs were the only thing around (before 2006). It is no longer there to enable their ability to run when you upgrade to the newer systems.It also means that programs with older installer programs may need updating as well, so verify the system requirements do not lackMac OS X 10.7 or later, or drag their installer program into the Applications folder to verify they aren't for PowerPC only.
You'll see later how to determine that with the System Profiler program.
Go to Apple menu -> About This Mac to determine exactly what you have. Alternatively:See https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6413 to identify your Mac.See https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295 if migrating data from a PowerPC Mac to an Intel Mac.
G3 without USB is maxed at 10.2.8, except for the Powerbook G3 250 original Powerbook G3 (also known as Kanga), which could onlybe updated to Mac OS 9.1 (not to be confused with Mac OS X 10.9.1, which is 13 years newer).G3 without Firewire, but with USB are maxed at 10.3.9, except the Powerbook G3 Lombard (Bronze Keyboard) which may have CPU specific issues that limitits upgradeability at all.G3 or G4 of 800 Mhz or less with Firewire are maxed at 10.4.11.PowerPC Macs G4 867 Mhz (on single processor) and above (1 Ghz or higher included), and G5s can upgrade only to Mac OS X 10.5.8, and only support for syncing with iOS 5.x devices and earlier.Intel CoreSolo and Intel CoreDuo can upgrade only to Mac OS X 10.6.8 if they have at least 1 GB of RAM (768 MB is less). This does offer for anyone in the position compatibility with PowerPC applications that don't require drivers, and the latest Adobe Flash support as of May 14, 2014, and support for syncing with iOS 7 devices. For more on iOS support and Mac OS X syncing, see this tip:iTunes/Mac OS/iOS compatibility
Intel Core2Duo and XEON and later (Core i3, i5, i7 are all later models) may be able to go 10.4.4 to 10.6 to 10.6.8 to 10.9 to 10.9.2, or even up to 10.10 and 10.11 (skipping 10.5 to 10.5.8 altogether, and 10.7 to 10.8.5 altogether), as will later be explained. 10.6.8 may also be upgraded directly to 10.10. However, due to Rosetta's lack of existence in 10.7 and later, this type of upgrade, and any such upgrade that does not skip the aforementioned operating systems needs to be planned carefully. This tip explains what is needed to approach such upgrade pattern once it reaches 10.7 or later.
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It does mean your data if it was in Appleworks, or an older version of Quicken mayneed to go through several conversion steps before you can upgrade to a newer Mac OS X.
It does mean that some newer Macs than July 19, 2011 will be faced with difficulty when approaching older applications. That date is later for some Mac models that did not receive a hardware revision until a later date than July 20, 2011, and that will also be explained later.
Some things you get with 10.7 and higher, specifically 10.7.3 and higher, are better compatibility with Java for websites from http://www.java.com/, Apple's iCloud , and iChat. I don't recommend everyone with 10.7 though to upgrade to 10.7.5, as some things may not work better until 10.8 or later.If your machine is limited to 10.7, stick with 10.7.3 unless you require other compatibility that is only on 10.7.4 or 10.7.5. Those with 10.6.8 or earlier running Java should read this tip:https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5532
Adobe Flash compatibility with older Macs is discussed here, though if you can run at least 10.6.8, you can run the latest Flash:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4781929
Now this doesn't mean you can't upgrade to 10.7 or later, if you have those older applications, but the workarounds aren't easy,as this tip on virtualizing 10.6 server on 10.7 or later demonstrates. Applications that aren't on this link as 10.7 or later compatible, may only work with the workaround. Alternatively a second hard drive with 10.6.8 or earlier, or second partition with 10.6.8or earlier if supported by the Mac will enable you to continue to use Rosetta. Mac models whose hardware changed (by Apple delivering a new set of hardware to stores) as of July 20, 2011 or later though have to deal with the first work around as their only choice.
The System Profiler application lets you quickly determine if you have PowerPC applications (click on image to enlarge):Note the triangle to the left of Software has to be pointed down for the Applications to become visible.Note the right hand side of the the Applications listing when selected says if you have PowerPC, Classic, Intel, or Universal.PowerPC & Classic indicate PowerPC only. Classic indicates it only runs on a PowerPC with Mac OS 9 running in the Classic environment
or booting into Mac OS 9.
Another way to tell applications are PowerPC only when you have already booted into 10.7 or later, requiring Rosetta, or a different operating system, is their icon in the Dock will have a Do not Enter sign like below:
This icon overlay only works for those applications that specifically have been tested to not work in the operating system being booted into, and clearly need a component of a different operating system. I've seen this happen as much to 10.10 applications that don't work in 10.9 while booted into 10.9, as 10.8 applications and 10.6 applications that don't work in 10.10 while booted into 10.10. The lack of this overlay though does not mean an application is necessarily compatible.
Before you upgrade to 10.6, be aware of this tip.Before you upgrade to 10.7 or later, also be aware of the info on this tip.
If everything is good, you can do the following upgrade path:
10.4.4 (on Apple Mac with Intel CPU) or later to 10.6 retail to 10.6.6 combo to 10.7 (paid) to 10.7.5 combo (free).
10.4.4 (on Apple Mac with Intel CPU) or later to 10.6 retail to 10.6.8 combo to 10.8 (paid) or 10.11 free.10.8 can be updated to 10.8.5 combo (free) as well.
An empty hard drive to 10.6 retail, then the above the 10.6.6 or 10.6.8 paths, or 10.7 USB Flash (no longer available) to 10.8 or 10.11 are also possibilities.
Note: The only 10.4 systems that can upgrade to 10.8 through 10.11 are on this tip Are there 10.4 systems that can upgrade to 10.11The only 10.5 systems that can upgrade to 10.8 through 10.11 are on this tip:Which 10.5 systems can upgrade to 10.11?The links provided should be followed to avoid any pitfalls you may get.
Lastly, Apple lists compatible printers for 10.6 and later:
Any not listed, will have to come from the vendor directly.
Apple provides updates to the printers on that link through these links by vendor:
HP, Ricoh, Canon, Epson, Brother,Lexmark, Samsung, and Fuji/Xerox
P.S. Users with PowerMac G3, G4, G5 reading this tip should also read the migration guide before migrating data from those machines to an Intel Mac.
* An erase of the hard drive during partitioning is usually only required when you have insufficient space. With sufficient space, partitioning can be done without erasing as described here:
under 'Create new partitions on a disk.' You should backup regardless.
10.6.8 has the following security updates: 10.6.8 2013 Security Update 004, 2013-005 Java update (note Java is not current until Mac OS X 10.7.3 from Java.com)and can be updated to 10.8 Mountain Lion through 10.11 El CapitanEl Capitan System (10.11) requirements for upgrade10.7.5 has this security update:10.7.5 Security Update 2014-004 followed by 10.7.5 Bash update,and can be updated to 10.12 Sierra.10.8 can be upgraded to High Sierra on certain Mac Models.
10.8.5 has this security update: 2015-006 Mountain Lion Security Update10.9.5 has this security update: 2015-008 Security update10.10.5 has this security update: 2016-001 Security update and may have others on Apple security updates - Apple Support in the future.
The only Macs that shipped with 10.6.8 or earlier than can run 10.14 Mojave are certain Mac Pros with specific graphics cards.
Lastly, for those with Microsoft Office versions that are too old, there are these alternatives:
1999: Adobe Type Reunion and Apple’s Font Manager turn out to be the culprits.
My PowerBook 3400c-owning friend in Minnesota, Chris Long, recently talked his boss into buying him a new 400 MHz Yikes! Power Mac G4 workstation. Lucky guy.
However, the transition to the G4 has not gone as smoothly as Chris would have liked. All went well until Chris began running the combination of Adobe Type Reunion (ATR) and Quark XPress 3.32r5. He tried installing (and ripping out) ATR (the latest version: 2.51) four times, but couldn’t get Quark XPress to run without hard-crashing his Yikes – on two occasions rendering the machine unbootable from its hard drive.
Chris finally concluded that ATR simply would not run on the G4. He wasn’t sure whether it was Mac OS 8.6, Quark XPress, or the G4 that ATR objected to, but he simply could not get it to work properly.
An alternative was obviously required, and Chris happily found one that worked quite similarly to ATR: Power-On Software’s Action WYSIWYG, a font utility designed to give you total control of your Font menus, allowing you customize the menu the way you like it, grouped the way you want, in a multi-column menu showing fonts in their actual typefaces.
Action WYSIWYG features include:
- Multiple column font menus. See hundreds of fonts on the screen at once with up to ten columns of fonts per menu.
- Customizable for each application. Display only the fonts you need for each application.
- Group fonts. WYSIWYG automatically groups fonts into sub menus by font family for fast access.
- Show fonts in WYSIWYG or non-WYSIWYG typefaces – Display fonts in WYSIWYG or normal typefaces and then switch between modes instantly with a keystroke.
- Rearrange font menus. Reorder fonts in menus and assign size and color to each font.
- Supports most major applications, including Adobe products and Microsoft Office applications.
Chris downloaded the free Action WYSIWYG trial version and found that it worked just fine, so one problem was solved. Chris decided that if Adobe didn’t update ATR within the next 30 days, he would buy the Action WYSIWYG utility ($30) and use it permanently.
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However, he wasn’t out of the woods yet. Chris found that using Quark XPress (even without ATR) on the G4 was no joy at all. “Selecting a simple item on the screen would take 6, 8, 10 seconds from the click to the actual select,” he says. “Even my old 601 machine did better than that by a long shot.” Chris tried reinstalling a bunch of things and pulling several nonessential extensions and control panels, but to no avail.
The solution to this problem turned up in the monthly newsletter Design Tools Monthly, which pointed out that the Apple Font Manager plug-in that Chris had downloaded and added to OS 8.6 (which is supposed to fix a font-corrupting bug) was in fact causing problems. The newsletter pointed him to another vendor, DiamondSoft, which had a free plug-in to fix the problem, so Chris tossed Apple’s Font Manager and installed DiamondSoft’s Font Fixer plug-in.
Chris was delighted with the results. “This G4 hasn’t crashed once – not one time since the switcheroo,” he told me. “That was a few days ago, and Quark XPress is now racing along at top speed, as it should. All problems are solved!
“What kills me,” says Chris, “is my innocence (naiveté?) in thinking that Apple’s posted ‘fix’ was in fact actually a fix and not a problem-causing piece of junk. I never in a million years would have considered it as the source of all these problems – primarily because I’d already forgotten I even added it to OS 8.6 (duh).
“Those guys better get their stuff together. It took me a good week of hair-pulling to get this thing up and running properly.”
Now that the teething problems are dealt with, Chris says that the G4 is a wonderful machine, and he’s cranking out work like never before.
Appendix
DiamondSoft’s statement on the Apple Font Manager bug:
DiamondSoft has uncovered a bug in Mac OS 8.6. The bug, which is in the Mac OS 8.6 Font Manager, can cause certain fonts to become corrupt, leading to application and system crashes. The problem occurs with older style fonts, specifically fonts which have “FONT” resources in them. Using Mac OS 8.6, if one of these fonts is “looked at” by any application, the system puts a corrupt resource into the font. From that point on the font is corrupt and can crash your application or your system if used by any application.
The problem can also occur with older style fonts embedded within applications. For example, Adobe PageMaker 6.5 has an embedded font containing a FONT resource. This problem can make PageMaker crash on startup when running on Mac OS 8.6.
Certain applications which provide password protection dialog boxes use an embedded font to display the “bullets” which hide a users password. Some of these programs are also prone to the problem.
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DiamondSoft has released a small System Extension, called “FONT Fixer for 8.6”, which automatically fixes the problem by fixing the corrupted fonts immediately after Mac OS 8.6 has corrupted the font. This fix is being made available, free of charge, to all users of Mac OS 8.6.
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To download “FONT Fixer for 8.6”, go to <http://www.fontreserve.com/update/info.html> and download under the date heading “June 23, 1999.”