On Mar 12, 2019, at 2:07 AM, smac0031 <m.smurph...@gmail.com<mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I bought a 2006 Intel Mac Pro that sort of works. I'm pretty sure the Intel is running El Capitan. This allows it to communicate with my iPhone 8+. I think something may have been patched the person who sold it. For instance when I try to pull up "About this Mac" nothing comes up. This is the first problem. If you’re starting with a messed up system, you’re not going to make it better by trying to patch in stuff from an older one. Start Terminal. Don’t worry this one is easy! type : sw_vers at the prompt and hit enter, it should tell you the version of software you have: from mine: dbdev2:~ johnson$ sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.13.6 BuildVersion: 17G5019 Now, go to Apple’s website, click on Support, (and presuming you are correct that it has El Capitan) enter 10.11 combo update (or the actual ProductVersion that you get from the above command, just the 10.nn part) which should take you to a page that lists a bunch of updtes. Find the highest numbered one for your version, download it and install it. An example: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&type=organic&src=support_searchbox_main&locale=en_US&q=10.11+combo+update With luck this will fix the problems like ‘it was customized’ that you’re seeing. If it does not, then you’ll need to find the full installer, nuke and pave the Intel Mac and then migrate the files over again. It’s a fair bit of work but you might find that this fixes all the issues you’re having. If it doesn’t come back and we’ll try something else. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
