Owen Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 (edited) My 2009 iMac 24 was so slow it was like swimming through treacle with a cow tied around my waist. I knew I needed to re-instal OSX and start again. I had had trouble with the driver for my aged M-Audio Ozonic firewire keyboard before but got around it by telling the Mac that it was cool to load anything from anywhere. Sadly now I cannot get it to load. I am on 10.11.6 and the driver is for 10.7. The most recent driver(10.7) is sitting there and happily going into install action but then says that it cannot install at the end because "there is no software found to install". I know that the answer here is to £££££up and buy a new interface and keyboard controller, but I would really like to not be shelling out the coin if I could help it. Any suggestions/work arounds? Thanks as usual. Edited July 17, 2019 by owen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineweasel Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 There's no workaround; to use the Ozonic you need the driver, but the driver will only work on 10.7 or 10.6. Presumably you were running OS X 10.7 beforehand. Can't you reinstall the same OS version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Rolling back to an earlier OS on MAC is a real pita. Basically you’ll need a copy of the installer and then you’ve got to partition the HD, install the old OS, move all of your stuff across and then boot from the new partition (old OS) and delete the partition with the newer OS on it. Unless of course you’ve got a Time Machine backup. You*do* have a TM backup, don’t you...? I didn’t; that’s how I know how to do this! 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineweasel Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 The other problem is that Apple have now made it very difficult to obtain older OS installers, so unless you have the 10.6 or 10.7 DVD you could be stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Thats why I kept them all. I think I even have a disk for 10.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 Thanks all. I do actually have a TM backup. I unmounted the TMHD before I reformatted the Mac HD. Having plugged the TMHD back in it is not actually giving me the option of seeing it as a pick and choose backup. When I went to reload everything originally it just could not see the TM. I have spent quite a bit of time setting it up (backups elsewhere as well) but I guess I will just go back and reformat off TM as it is now picking it up and telling me it goes back to June 1st. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 It has now clocked the TM disk so I am using that. Interestingly it is on 10.9 there but still managing to run the 10.7 driver. I have no idea how I managed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 TM did the business. I am back on 10.9 and somehow have managed to sneak a 10.7 driver past it Thanks all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Well done! Glad you found a workaround. I stopped updating the OS on my home Mac (a 2012 Mac Mini) some time ago, due the driver of my audio interface (an old Allen & Heath mixer) no longer being updated. I think a lot of "pro" studios seem to work on this basis too - i.e. once you have a stable platform, leave it the hell alone! 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibob Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Use gear that’s class compliant, and you won’t have to worry about driver compatibility on Mac anymore. Easy Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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