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[king13p]

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Thanks king13p.

I am on a UK languaged machine so is prefer not to have to change it to a US one.

I guess I could run a grep command to try and find any other files that still have Mac Pro (Early 2008).

This should do it right?

grep -i 'Mac Pro (Early 2008)' ~/Library/

I'm not sure if that would quite do it. Here is the command I used.

FIND /library -type f -exec grep -n "Early 2008" {} \;-print 2>/dev/null

I would only search for Early 2008 just because you don't want to be too detailed on searches like this.

You could try to temporarily change the system language just to see if it works, then change it back.

System Preferences > Language & Text
Language Tab
English
Region Tab
United States

Reboot and see what happens.

 

[samuraixzodus]

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Delete the original file first, then copy it over.

Or

Unhide the file, in Terminal

chflags -nohidden FILENAME

King13p "Delete the original file first, then copy it over"

This worked perfect thanks!

 

[sentur]

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King13p "Delete the original file first, then copy it over"

This worked perfect thanks!

I re-read through the instructions and it seemed to work this time. All I can attribute is that I don't think I set Finder to show hidden files and instead just used the find hidden files through TextWrangler instead. Odd but now it seems to be working!

Awesome little hack!

 

[Aup808]

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Like sentur, I feel I am also going slightly crazy. For some reason, I cannot change Mac Pro (Early 2008).

So, in TextWrangler, this is what I have:

I opened it from here:

Maybe it's because I have plist.lockfiles? I have no idea. But that was from my first user/administrator account, and unlike sentur, I am not in the UK and have the EN settings.

When I try to edit these, save it, I still get this:

This is a cool hack but now that I am so close (and I can't even seem to get the first part but I got the first correct), it's driving me crazy, haha. Do you have any suggestions? I tried not showing all the files like sentur, and went to TextWrangler and opened it up - I even tried just saving it separately and then replacing it the original, but still nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[king13p]

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What are plist.lockfiles? I don't have any of those listed in my library / Preferences folder.

Try create a new user then login as the new user and go into their Library / Preferences folder and see if you see the same lockfiles.

Try change the file in there and see if the changes show up.

You could also try move all those "Lockfiles" to a separate folder like on the desktop, then try reboot.

Let us know what you find.

 

[sentur]

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Apu808... the main thing I didn't do was setting Finder to show hidden files and then navigating to the .plist file and editing it through TextWrangler. Be sure to follow these steps as provided by the OP.

First enable hidden files.

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

killall Finder

You'll want to navigate to /users/administrator (or whatever your user name is)/library/preferences/ and edit the file com.apple.systemprofiler.plist

 

[AdamInNi]

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Thanks Worked Perfectly, Shame I don't have a black case! Would have looked much better both in person and in the "About This Mac" window, lol.

 

[rdunseith]

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I had the problem with that I moved my user folder to another drive. And when I edited the systemprofiler on the install drive it didn't change. But when I went to my user folder on the second drive I found the same file.
Thanks for the guide!

 

[His_Tudness]

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Really nice guide! I'll give this a go when I get home.

Btw: how do you guys get your CPU temps to show in the menu bar? iStat? Mine only shows my two HD temps.

Ok here's mine in the attachments.

 

[MattMcHackit83]

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I had the problem with that I moved my user folder to another drive. And when I edited the systemprofiler on the install drive it didn't change. But when I went to my user folder on the second drive I found the same file.
Thanks for the guide!

Good stuff! Looks great!