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However, Mac World came up with a much quicker and easier method to "tricking" your Mac into thinking it already has Snow Leopard installed.

However, it does involve editing a. Using a text editor that lets you edit system-level files, open SystemVersion.

Locate the line with the ProductVersion key. Just below it is a string of characters indicating what OS you are running. Your number might look something like Lastly, shut down your Mac and restart it. You'll need to boot from a drive running Snow Leopard or later, such as the bootable Mountain Lion drive I mentioned earlier.

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Main photo by TechnoBuffalo. When I boot using the flash disk I created, I just get an "X" icon in a circle and it keeps loading forever When I try to do this, I get an error box saying that "You don't own this file and you don't have permission to write it. Is there any way around this? Thanks so much for your help!

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I copied the plish and pasted it to my desktop, I opened the plish and then changed the After that I copied the changed plish into where the original plish was. You want to overwrite it!!!!! I used this method last week and I was able to successfully update a my early macbook that had been sitting in storage for years from In order to edit SystemVersion. Copy and paste: I had to completely reformat my drive as the Mountain Lion installer would not install over an existing OSX Partition.

I used a Gparted live cd to make a seperate partition to backup my important files. Thank you Roger for your very detailed reply. It does not leave anything open.

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Many thanks again and enjoy your Sunday!! You will need to order it from the online Apple store and, as a cautionary note: The generally recommended minimum is 4 GB or you will encounter hangs, beachballs, etc if you have more than one app open and depending on which apps. I found Lion to be a RAM hog.

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