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Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite

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On 2015-06-11 05:27:53 +0000, David Empson said:

> Alan Baker <email@domain.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2015-06-11 04:04:25 +0000, sctvguy1 said:
>> 
>>> Running Snow Leopard and am satisfied with it.  Now, this evening, I
>>> have been getting  little nag screens saying that Yosemite is available
>>> for download and to upgrade.  Is anyone else getting these screens who
>>> are not running 10.10?
>> 
>> If you go into the App Store app's Update tab, you can right click on
>> the Yosemite update suggestion and make it stop.
> 
> That method only works for 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and later. App Store in
> Snow Leopard and Lion can't hide the banner, and have no official way to
> permanently suppress the pop-up advertisements.
> 
> 
> The mechanism which produced the advertisements was added by "Mac App
> Store Update 1.0". On Snow Leopard and Lion, a Noticeboard service was
> installed. It runs periodically and checks with Apple to see if any
> messages need to be displayed. (A different mechanism is used in
> Mountain Lion and later systems, via Notification Center.)
> 
> Noticeboard runs twice a day to check for messages, but there is a rate
> limiter at the server side which results in the offer to upgrade only
> appearing every few weeks on each Mac.
> 
> If you want to permanetly disable the mechanism, the following commands
> in Terminal should do the trick on Snow Leopard and Lion systems which
> have Mac App Store Update 1.0 installed. Do NOT use this method on later
> OS X versions, where you can use the App Store to hide the unwanted
> upgrade notice, which also stops the recurring reminder.
> 
> I've split this into two commands to avoid line wrapping issues.
> 
> cd /System/Library/LaunchAgents
> sudo launchctl unload -w com.apple.noticeboard.plist
> 
> If you have Little Snitch, another possibility would be to block the
> Noticeboard application from making outgoing connections.

Thanks.

Good to know.

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Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-06-10 23:04 -0500
  Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-10 21:15 -0700
    Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-06-11 17:27 +1200
      Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-11 01:12 -0700
      Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-06-11 09:46 -0700
        Re: Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-06-11 09:59 -0700

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