Install iBooks Author on Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

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Jan 20, 2012 - 58 Comments

Install iBooks Author on Mac OS X 10.6.8Snow Leopard

Apple’s free interactive book creation app iBooks Author was just released, allowing for anyone to

make multi-touch iBooks for iPad. Unfortunately it’s officially for Mac OS X 10.7 only, and if you try

to install it on Snow Leopard, you’ll get an error message. With a little work we can get around that

error message and install and run iBooks Author in Mac OS X 10.6.8.

This is not supported by Apple, although the app appears to work fine and if you just want to explore

the application it’s more than enough. If you plan on publishing with iBooks Author, you should use

OS X Lion though.

From the Mac OS X desktop, hit Command+Shift+G and enter /System/Library/CoreServices/

Locate SystemVersion.plist and make a backup copy of it to the desktop

Launch the Terminal and type the following:

sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

Locate the keys ProductUserVisibleVersion and ProductVersion and change their strings from

“10.6.8! to “10.7.2!Hit Control+O to save the file

Now launch the Mac App Store and find and download iBooks Author

After iBooks Author is finished downloading – do not launch it yet, instead open /Applications/

and find the app, then right-click on it and choose “Show Package Contents”

Now open the folder “Contents” and locate and open “Info.plist”, you can use nano or your

favorite text editor

In Info.plist, look for “LSMinimumSystemVersion” and change the accompanying string from

“10.7.2! to “10.6.8! and safe the file

Almost done! Now go back to the SystemVersion.plist file and open it again:

sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

Locate keys ProductUserVisibleVersion and ProductVersion again, but change their strings from

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to “10.7.2! back to “10.6.8!Save SystemVersion.plist

Launch iBooks Author

The iBooks Author icon will probably keep it’s strike through it, but the app opens fine and

everything seems to work. You may also need to upgrade to iTunes 10.5.3 if you want to sync the

iBooks to an iPad.

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esaruoho says:January 20, 2012 at 1:40 pm

Worked. Thank you very much for this article.

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Nick says:January 20, 2012 at 2:07 pm

Great trick! If you leave systemversion as 10.7.2 you can actually download any OS X Lion app, but not allof them run. Very nice indeed.

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Yep it's 2012 says:January 20, 2012 at 4:11 pm

Works. BTW you can point nano into apps, makes this easier:

sudo nano /Applications/iBooks\ Author.app/Contents/Info.plist

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DonC says:January 20, 2012 at 5:47 pm

By the way, after completing the above specified steps, if you then just go back and re-edit the “info.plist”file and just re-save without making any changes (with the “10.6.8! changes) the “X” in the icon will goaway!

At least it did for me…

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Enjoy!

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Charo says:January 21, 2012 at 8:35 pm

You have to take it out of the dock first

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Mikhail says:January 20, 2012 at 8:21 pm

Didn’t work for me

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Jim says:January 20, 2012 at 11:25 pm

Try again, it works!

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Steve says:January 21, 2012 at 9:48 pm

Didn’t work for me either. And I tried it on two different MacBook Air that had Mac OS X 10.6.8.

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Mikhail says:January 21, 2012 at 11:12 pm

I finally got it to work but honestly it was from another tutorial I found on the web.

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Brio says:January 21, 2012 at 12:51 am

Ibooks autore opens, but doesn’t do any, sob…

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Vinciqator says:January 21, 2012 at 5:03 am

iBook Author simply awaits further instructions once started. Default settings are “Open withTemplates” ticked, i.e. iBA should show Templates. Doesn’t work in SL, so you have to choose either“New ( Cmd-N )” or “New from Template ( Cmd-Shift-N )” – or whatever that menu item is in English –to make things happen.

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I did but menati me safari upgraded to 5.1.2 and now mail, safari, app store and otterrà apps are notworking.Probably the upgrade installerà someggino For lion.What should i do now?

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I did but meanwhile safari upgraded to 5.1.2 and now mail, safari, app store and other apps are notworking.Probably the upgrade installed something for lion.What should i do now?

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Vinciqator says:January 21, 2012 at 5:16 am

Download method for Terminal Phobic users;



Download on a Lion machine or partion.Save to USB memory.Restart with SL.Perform step seven through nine above only.

Enjoy!

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Mario says:January 22, 2012 at 5:56 am

sorry I have the same problems as Brio, but I don’t understand how I can solve it, can you explain inmore details? Thanks a lot!

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Macia says:January 21, 2012 at 5:59 am

Alternative method to DonC’s , after all these steps if you want to remove the strike on the iBook Author’sicon, I just dragged the stroked icon away from the dock then went to the applications folder and draggedit back and not it appears normal.

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Vinciqator says:January 21, 2012 at 4:51 pm

No need for that imho. Just close iBA – and restart it from the Dock. Enjoy.

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Michael says:January 21, 2012 at 6:51 am

Same here… I was able to install it, but the menus remain without function. The “About” and the “Settigs”work, but that’s about it.

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cyberdog says:January 21, 2012 at 5:03 pm

Sound like a great idea/tutorial. It didn’t work for me. I get a pop up dialog that says: You can’t use thisversion of the application iBooks Author with version of Mac OS X. You have Mac OS X 10.6.8. Theapplication requires version Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later.

I tried it several times.

I have a few questions?

1. Why are we mucking about with an un-Mac-like editor such as the nano editor? Won’t BBEdit orTextWrangler just as good and more natural?

2. Why are we mucking about with text editors at all? Won’t the Property List Editor do the trick?

When I double click on the plist file it is opened with Property List Editor and everything points to Mac OSX 10.6.8 but I still get the above error message. Any ideas?

Cyberdog

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Ntn says:January 21, 2012 at 6:48 pm

If you got that error, you didn’t edit the Info.plist file inside the application. Yes you can use



TextWrangler or Property List Editor.

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Ntn,

I beg to differ, here is a snippet from my info.plist file:

LSMinimumSystemVersion10.6.8

I think we’ll have iBooks Author on every Snow Leopard install yet!

-Cyberdog

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I don’t know what I did differently this time, but iBooks Author now works for me. As far as I can tell, Ihave played with it much but all menu seem responsive and I was able to create a new iBook but I didexperience a few difficulties (I’ll put that down to the learning curve)

So for those of you experiencing difficulties getting iBooks Author to run on Snow Leopard, do notdespair. Simply delete that copy of iBooks Author and start over. I’d would recommend usingTextWrangler (a free copy is available from Bare Bones). And you should be all set!

Thanks for a very useful tip/tutorial.

-Cyberdog

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Steve says:January 21, 2012 at 9:50 pm

I had same problem as Cyberdog, and even tried it on two different MacBook Air each running 10.6.8. IfApple wants people to publish, they need to make it more accessible for OS Lion and Snow Leopardusers.

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I reinstalled SL and that’s all… Everything is working again, no iBooks Author and… Thx Vinciqator…

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yaxzone says:January 22, 2012 at 4:31 pm

After the version has been updated back on the above files, if you remove the iBooks icon from the Dockand bring it back by dragging it from the Applications directory the X goes away. Close your Applicationswindow and re-open it and x goes away from app as well.

Thanks for the hack.

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Grégoire says:January 25, 2012 at 12:48 pm

I did all what is written, and now, any application but FireFox want to open !!!

PLEASE HELP ME ! Text me on my mail if you can ! Thx

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Will says:January 25, 2012 at 2:34 pm

You need to switch the text “10.7.2! in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist back to thedefault of “10.6.8!

The easiest way to do this is by replacing it with the backup you made, otherwise just edit the textmanually. Read the instructions carefully.

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Roland says:January 26, 2012 at 4:10 pm

if you accidentally run the program after downloading before editing the plist, just edit the plist, duplicatethe app and then it runs

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Jake says:February 23, 2012 at 4:58 pm

Thanks So Much I copied it and it Worked, but I don’t know how to stop the application from notopening after download!

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Rich says:January 30, 2012 at 5:48 am

I did what the instructions said to do, but it still is asking for 10.7.2. I looked at the Info.plist and it is stillchanged to 10.6.8. What did I do wrong (I tried two times).

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Peter says:February 4, 2012 at 2:10 am

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!

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Cheeky says:February 8, 2012 at 10:50 am

Worked a treat. Many thanks

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Rodrigo says:February 9, 2012 at 11:17 am

Someone knows how to create a Ibooks Author file on an external drive? (not on the macbook, becausemy hard drive is full). it’s possible?Thanks

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Paul says:February 9, 2012 at 11:43 am

Sure, save it to the external hard drive. But your Mac is going to run a lot slower if the hard drive is full,so you may want to consider moving things off of the drive and having at least 15% of space free

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Mac says:February 15, 2012 at 10:36 am

Excellent. It took a little concentration to follow the instructions… All works exactly as described… and sofar no problems with other Apps

Thanks for a cracking tip!!

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Maria says:February 20, 2012 at 5:55 pm

It didn’t work for me I tried several times. Message needs 10.7.2

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Roberto says:March 13, 2012 at 8:10 am

As some people commented, the trick does not work for all users of 10.6.8. Nevertheless, what will mostcertainly work, is to launch the application from a terminal:

~$ /Applications/iBooks\ Author.app/Contents/MacOS/iBooks\ Author2012-03-13 15:55:33.803 iBooks Author[89202:903] loader loading…

It works just fine. Double-clicking the icon or moving the icon back to the dock does not change anythingwith regard to the pesky “You have Mac OS X 10.6.8. The application requires Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later.”

Just start it from command line and it works fine (tested on Mac Book Air and Mac Book Pro). I reckononce I restart the machine or otherwise re-initialize the caches, the issue will go away by itself.

HTH and cheers.

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macc says:March 21, 2012 at 10:36 pm

Thank you!It works on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

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deuce says:April 24, 2012 at 7:58 pm

Just curious as to why you mentioned that if I intend to publish I should use Lion. My computer wontaccept Lion as its not the Core 2 duo. I have created a great book with your tutorial IMO. Can I stillpublish without Lion? Thanks. Your tutorial worked flawlessly I might add. Cheers.

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Kate BB says:June 21, 2012 at 8:21 am

Hi, Just followed the steps and double-checked them to install iBooks, but iBooks Author will not openand displays the message “You can’t use this version of the application iBooks Author with this version ofMac OS X. You have Mac OS X 10.6.8. This application requires Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later.” So Applemust have caught on to us.

Apple tech in retail store said that I can skip Lion (and $30) and pay only for Mountain Lion at $20 in Julyso I am waiting.

Anyone have any other options for using iBooks Author with Snow Leopard?

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Kate BB says:June 21, 2012 at 8:34 am

Rebooted MacBook Pro, but get the same message about version number as before.

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MacBoyTroubled says:July 9, 2012 at 4:22 am

I am in deep trouble.

I followed the steps and installed the iBook Author thing, however, upon installing, none of the menus onthe iBook Author would work, so basically, I can not make a new file and so on.

To my horror, iTunes, iPhoto, iPages and Keynote are also in trouble in now. The menu on each one ofthese doesn’t work and I can not even open files that were made using these softwares.

Any one knows what could go wrong?

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Brittany says:July 12, 2012 at 3:27 pm

Thanks for this! Worked like a charm… now to digital authorship sans lion!

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Lengzai says:July 20, 2012 at 9:18 pm



Can i know what are the disadvantages or future troubles i could get when i try this? Thank you.

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iseno says:September 6, 2012 at 9:28 pm

Just follow every step on this article, if iba does not work, then drag iba to trash, open trash, select iba,click right, choose put it back.

now i’m enjoying iba on SL.

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Tom says:October 1, 2012 at 1:31 pm

This works! Thanks iseno!

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FrederickSim says:December 19, 2012 at 7:53 am

Just to let you know it works!

Thanks iseno!

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Trout says:October 25, 2012 at 3:05 am

For anyone looking for whether this will work with iBooks Author 2.0 released 10/23/2012, the sad answeris it no longer does.If you follow these steps you now get a crash on launch with the prime error listed as:“Symbol not found: _NSUndoManagerDidCloseUndoGroupNotification”

Unfortunately I couldn’t find the answer to this online so just had to try it out.If you need to stay on Snow Leopard and you want to keep using iBooks Author, don’t upgrade to 2.0.You really will need Lion to use it now.

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etchasketchy says:October 26, 2012 at 5:24 pm

3 days ago of course FML

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Sebastian says:November 5, 2012 at 2:44 pm

Sooner or later maybe someone create unofficial 10.6.9 hack update to Snow that handles such issues

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Imee says:March 28, 2013 at 1:36 am

but I didn’t get the chance to download it prior to 23rd October. I’m really sad now. does anybodyhave the older app I can use?

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Nona says:October 25, 2012 at 5:17 pm

Does anyone know where I can download version 1.0 instead of 2.0 which isn’t working?

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Ben says:October 26, 2012 at 11:44 am

This will not work with the new ibooks update for 10.7.4. What I don’t understand is why anyone wouldeven still be running 10.6.8…

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November 5, 2012 at 2:43 pm

Because of this Lion/MLion not so cool featurs:- lack of rosetta support- you are no longer install XP in BootCamp- Versions- lack of Spaces- full screen feature that makes 2nd monitor blac(wtf)- whole problem with Save As functionality

In 10.6.8 everything is as it should be (except lack of iCloud, but I can live with this). People justdoesn’t like paid update created for making profit to Apple only.

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Imee says:March 28, 2013 at 1:34 am

…because some of us don’t have the luxury of having a new Mac all the time. I’m running 10.6.8because it’s the maximum version I can have on my MacBook 1,1… Besides, this is pretty stable. I’vehad it for years, and since a lot of the software I need in my daily life are still supported for this version

of OS X.

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