Hello all, I have an iBook G4 running 10.5.8, but it's lacking Mail so I decided to reinstall Leopard from the original disk and then use software update later to bring it up to speed. However, the Installer won't play ball and says "You cannot upgrade this version of Mac OS X because a newer version is installed."
The install options are currently set to Archive and Install with Preserve users and network settings selected which seems like what I want. If I have to perform Erase & Install I will but it would mean backing up all my partner's documents and the usual which seems a bit excessive really. Can I somehow force it to do the upgrade whilst keeping the existing user files and settings? I have seen a trick here ( http://www.macworld.com/article/1161087/install_lion_over_leopard.html ) which may mean that I edit SystemVersion.plist to read 10.5 (or 10.5.0?) and then update! Would that be OK? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Stephen “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume,” - BP chief executive Tony Hayward, May 2010 No problem then ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
