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1. #MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH MAC OS X#
2. #MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH UPDATE#
3. #MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH FULL#
4. #MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH SOFTWARE#

But knowing TRIM exists may be useful when one day you notice your SSD isn’t as fast as it used to be. What works for one may be less useful for another.

#MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH SOFTWARE#

In any case, as always with freeware software use it at your own risk. A company called SandForce manufactures such SSDs (no, I’m not suggesting they’re low quality). It turns out some SSDs don’t appreciate TRIM and can actually slow down rather than speed up your hackintosh. So to minimise the risks and increase the speed of your SSD you can actually run Trim Enabler periodically, say every two weeks or once a month. As far as my system goes, I’ve had my SSD for about two months now and have just installed Trim Enabler. Unlike with non-TRIM drives where the data isn’t actually deleted and your system is simply being made aware what files should no longer show on your computer and may be overwritten should the space be needed for another file. TRIM comes at a price though since once the content of your Trash is removed you can never hope to get it back (boohoo again). Apparently, with time your SSD writing times are bound to lengthen if you don’t use TRIM (boohoo). In many cases TRIM can considerably speed up your system especially if you work with large data files on a daily basis.

#MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH MAC OS X#

There is a free utility called Trim Enabler developed by Oscar Groth, that will replace the Mac OS X native TRIM functionality on your hackintosh (or your Mac with an unsupported SSD for that matter). And in hackintosh computers we all use unsupported SSDs anyway.įortunately, we’re not doomed forever in our DIY underworld. Hence, even if you own an actual Mac and replace your hard drive for a non-Apple one, TRIM will not work. If you’re interested in the nitty-gritty, go ahead and read the Wikipedia article.Īpple started supporting TRIM since Mac OS X 10.6.8 and it’s interesting that in Macs TRIM is only supported with Apple branded hard drives. Without TRIM, when your system tries to write to a part of a disk that was previously used by a file that was deleted, it has to go through a long-winded process that lasts considerably longer than if that part of your SSD was TRIMmed. Without going into too much detail it is used to let your system know which part of the hard drive is actually empty, e.g. TRIM technology has been put in place specifically for Solid State Drives. But on a hackintosh it’s probably better to use Kext Utility that will perform a few additional tasks especially useful after installing new kexts. You can use Disk Utility which is a part of Mac OS X. Failing to do this may cause login issues. You need to repair permissions every time after you run MultiBeast.

#MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH UPDATE#

The good news is that you can select to only update the change files in your backup copy to speed up the process. Although, the process slows you down and is a bit daunting but when your system fails to boot up this will save you from re-installing everything from scratch. This is a very efficient tool that will let you save a bootable copy of your system on another drive/partition. So what you can do in order to save yourself some gray hair is get hold of SuperDuper. This was a bad idea though since Time Machine will only copy Mac OS X’s own system details but not my hackintosh tweaks. Reinstalling was troublesome for one reason or another.Īfter a little bit of thinking I realised I could use Time Machine to back up my system configuration so I can go back to it in case something goes wrong.

#MAC OS MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.5 HACKINTOSH FULL#

That way if things go really bad you can go back a couple of steps without reinstalling your full hackintosh configuration.Īfter successfully running my 10.8 hackinstosh installation for a couple of days I attempted a few more tweaks that broke it. Try using SuperDuper to clone the bootable configuration of your system. If it successfully booted into safe mode, the feature causing the issue is not crucial to the basic operational features of your system. This means it’ll rely on the basics to get started. Safe mode is your system’s minimum working configuration. If you installed any kexts, remove them from /System/Library/Extensions and use Kext Utility to repair your permissions and rebuild caches, then reboot and keep your fingers crossed things will look good. If you can still log in using Safe Mode this is a good sign since you can still try to undo the changes that lead to the problem. The reason this happens is because you’ve done something that the system didn’t like. This is a common scenario, you tinker around with your hackintosh, hit restart, keep your fingerst crossed and your system stalls at the Apple logo.