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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

#76483 — Getting nag screens to update to Yosemite

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?

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#76485

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.

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#76487

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.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

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#76491

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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#76500

On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 1:27:56 AM UTC-4, David Empson wrote:
> 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.


And the jerk professes to be a "computer consultant" specializing in Macs.

But what IT really is, is, a know nothing Bullshit Artist.

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#76501

On 2015-06-11 16:46:21 +0000, awoolmeyer@gmail.com said:

> On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 1:27:56 AM UTC-4, David Empson wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> And the jerk professes to be a "computer consultant" specializing in Macs.
> 
> But what IT really is, is, a know nothing Bullshit Artist.

LOL

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