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10.5.7 Update Problem

Stang68

Stang68

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May 29, 2007
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Hey everyone,

I do not think my 10.5.7 updated correctly. I have a unibody. When I click on my battery icon it does not show the different profiles. I updated my brothers MBP (Santa Rosa) and he DOES have the profiles in the task bar. The main problem here is that his installed with no problems. MINE, on the other hand, was installing, it freaked out, and I had to force restart it. When it restarted, I had 10.5.7. Is there a way to kind of uninstall it and then reinstall it?

Thanks, guys!
 
Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried doing that already. Is there some way to downgrade to .6 and then go back to .7?
 
From what I read everything should be fine. I think only the earlier 2008 & < laptops have gotton the battery power saving menu back and it should be normal for the unibodies to lack it. Not sure why. Also the forced restart seems common with this update, so it sounds like the update went perfectly fine.
 
I thnk Kunze50 is right...it only shows up if you have a Santa Rosa, for example. If you have a Unibody then we never had it.
 
Stang68 said:
When I do that, it clears the entire drive, right?
Click to expand...

Not unless you choose the "Erase and Install" option. I think many of us
just run the combo updater, and if we're having "odd" problems, we might
consider an "Archive and Install" which preserves system files in a "Previous
System" folder.

As noted elsewhere, "best practice" is to 1) download the updater onto your
internal hard drive, 2) back up your internal hard drive (using Super Duper
or equivalent) to an external FireWire drive, 3) repair permissions, and 4)
run the updater from your internal hard drive. You shouldn't have any
problems, but if you do, you can reboot and/or restore from the FW drive.

Hope this helps . . .
 
My Update on my MacBook was around 285MB while the update on my 2009 Mac Mini was the normal 450MB... Is this normal? Both computers that they have updated to 10.5.7 when I click on "About this Mac" Thanks so much
 
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