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Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:55:56 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that I had to do this again for the 10.6.4 update. Either the maxfiles change isn’t permanent, or the 10.6.3 update reset it back to 2000…but knowing that this was almost assuredly the cause of my hang, I bumped it back up to 5000 and it installed with no issues at all.

Thanks again,

Dominic

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Adam

Adam — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:18:02 +0000

Wow, I can not thank you enough! Apple was no help at all! I have searched for 2 days and finally came across your site. It literally took a minute to resolve the issue that no one else could help me with! YOU ROCK!

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:42:05 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I had tried at least 15 other suggestions before finding your quick and easy fix for this mess.

I’ll be sharing this with my colleagues in my school district’s IT department in anticipation of lots of the same error messages!

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Joe

Joe — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:25:55 +0000

Very nicely done……! Thank you sooo much…

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Rudi Bleier

Rudi Bleier — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:22:57 +0000

Thank you,
worked like a charm.
Greetings from Sindelfingen, Germany

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by AppleToolbox » Blog Archive » Mac OS X 10.6.3 Fails to Install

AppleToolbox » Blog Archive » Mac OS X 10.6.3 Fails to Install — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:28:39 +0000

[...] Chris has discovered a fix for at least some instances of this issue. It involves modifying the maximum number of files that [...]

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Chris

Chris — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:28:25 +0000

I’ve been asked for specific instructions for those not familiar with using terminal.

1. Open Terminal (under Applications, Utilities)
2. Type “sudo su” (without quotes)
3. Type your password (you must have admin account)
4. Type “sysctl kern.maxfiles” (this will show you the max open files allowed currently)
5. Type “sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=####” replacing #### with a number much larger than your current maxfiles setting. For example, if your maxfiles is currently 12000 change it to 24000 or maybe 30000.

A reboot is not necessary. After making the maxfiles change rerun the update.

That’s it!

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Michael

Michael — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:08:58 +0000

Apple Second LEvel Support could not help…Said they have to ask for developers…
Have to wait approx. a week for a solution…

—> WORKED FINE, CHRIS!
—> Update to 10.6.3 successfull.

Greetings from Oldenburg, Germany

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Chris

Chris — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:28:00 +0000

Glad it worked for you!

Comment on Trouble Upgrading to Mac 10.6.3 by Mark

Mark — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:42:37 +0000

You, Sir, are a verifiable GENIUS!!!
On my brand new iMac the update completely froze the system on reboot.
Apple hotline unreachable the whole day.

maxfiles were already at 12000, but increasing them to 25000 made it run again!
Excellent advice!!!!
many thanks!
and two thumbs down for apple.