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CLOD-HOPPER

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Oct 10, 2015
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First of all, friends, I should state that my iMac type is 11,3 and not 14,1 — 14.4 as the prefix states (the system will not let me choose "iMac", as I have stated in another posting. My machine is a mid-2010 27-inch iMac.

My question is a simple one for anyone that knows his OCLP (Open Core Legacy Patcher). Using this valuable tool, I have installed Monterey a few times on two old machines of mine, with no problems. Not even for a tech-duffer like me!

However, I had a need to re-install Monterey on the SSD that has been fitted into the machine I am typing on. TTThis was because, although I could get Monterey to run OK, I could not get one particular app (XtraFinder) to work. I decided that perhaps SIP had not been disabled, so once again, I created an OCLP flash installer, and this time, before burning the final files to the flash drive, I ticked all the relevant settings (as shown in the far-right-hand image in the file I will upload).

Now, my question is this: would ticking all the boxes as shown, before finishing the creation of my flash installer, have caused this installer to have a problem in installing, or was it perfectly legitimate to tick those settings? After all, there must be a reason for the boxes to be there to be ticked. I am desperately trying to find out why the installer repeatedly says there is a probem/
With thanks in hopes of an informed reply,
C.H.
SIP setttings in Open Core Patcher.jpg
 
Nguyen Duc Hieu wrote: If you don't know what you are doing; take the default option.

Hi, Nguyen Duc Hieu. The advice you gave was good. After spending a lot of time in re-trying to install, I gave up, and created a new flash installer with default settings. It worked!

However, the installation is with SIP only partly disabled. I really would like to disable it fully, to get XtraFinder to work (with luck).

I'm not very clever with technical stuff. Will you not tell me how to disable SIP fully, in this OCLP installation of Monterey?

With grateful thanks in hope,
ClodHopper
 
Nguyen Duc Hieu wrote: If you don't know what you are doing; take the default option.

Hi, Nguyen Duc Hieu. The advice you gave was good. After spending a lot of time in re-trying to install, I gave up, and created a new flash installer with default settings. It worked!

However, the installation is with SIP only partly disabled. I really would like to disable it fully, to get XtraFinder to work (with luck).

I'm not very clever with technical stuff. Will you not tell me how to disable SIP fully, in this OCLP installation of Monterey?

With grateful thanks in hope,
ClodHopper

You have contacted the author but got no response?


Anyway, you can use the OCLP to adjust SIP and overwrite to the EFI volume of your bootdisk, either before of after OS installation.
 
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Nguyen Duc Hieu wrote:[/HEADING]
[B]You have contacted the author but got no response? Anyway, you can use the OCLP to adjust SIP and overwrite to the EFI volume of your bootdisk, either before of after OS installation.[/B]

Yes, I wrote to the maker of XtraFinder, but he did not reply. I shall look at the FAQs, just to see if the subject of installing on hacked machines is mentioned. However, if it were, it would be a big surprise to me.

With regard to adjusting SIP before installing, I did try that (see the image, posted above), and the outcome was that the installer would not install. If this is done [B]after[/B] installing (I have also tried this), the settings do not stay. As you will know, OCLP is installed in the Applications folder, but this is only an alias of the real app, which is stored elsewhere. With neither, there is no means of saving altered security setttings, after one has made changes to them. When the app is closed, then opened again (to see what happened), they are seen to have reverted to how they were at first. If there is something one can do to save the changes and you told me, I would appreciate it.

Interestingly, when I installed XtraFinder in Monterey, and tried to open it, it made as if to be active. An alert appeared, asking for permission to control the computer (via System Preferences > Security, if I remember aright). However, nothing happened. The name "XtraFinder" did not even appear in System Preferences, so it was not possible to grant permission. I entered it all the same, but XtraFinder would not open.

Thank you once again, for your response.

C.H.

 
It seems to me that you don't really know how OCLP works.
Please read again the following 2 pages: I had to read those 2 no less than 20 times before starting to understand a little bit about how it works.



For a normal user; we don't really need OCLP only to disable SIP.

 
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