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Problems installing an early version of Maya on Snow Leopard?  I feel your pain!

My MacBook Pro hard disk crashed.  Apple replaced it with Snow Leopard installed,  rather than reinstalling my original Leopard.  I was fine with that, until I realized Maya 2008 would not install on Snow Leopard.  I was on the verge of reverting back to Leopard, but found a workaround instead.  Here’s what I did:

• copied the maya2008 install folder from the original DVD to my hard disk
• right click on Maya2008.mpkg & select “Show Package Contents”
• right click on Maya_core2008.pkg & select “Show Package Contents”
• open Resources folder and right click on InstallationCheck, opening with Text Edit
• scroll to bottom of file and add the following to the block with exit 0:

10.*|10.6|10.6.*

You only need to edit this one line.

So, the entire line should look something like this:

10.4|10.4.*|10.5|10.5.*|10.*|10.6|10.6.*)

• save and install Maya

That’s it!  The installation guide says maya2008 works with “Mac OS X version 10.4 or later”, and now it really does!