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How to Enable TRIM Support for All SSDs in OS X Lion or Mountain Lion

Posted in How To, OS X on 21/07/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

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Ever since the release of OS X 10.6.8, Apple has been selectively enabling the TRIM command for SSD’s in OS X. This support continues on on Mac OS X Lion, as well as Mountain Lion, but as many have noted, it only seems to work for Apple SSDs. Here’s how to enable TRIM across the board:

The TRIM command is an important disk command for SSDs that keeps your flash memory appropriately cycled so that you can achieve faster read and write speeds, as well as a longer lifespan for your SSD. As such, TRIM support is not the trivial matter that some make it out to be (although certain manufacturers, such as Other World Computing, include firmware that eliminates the need for OS-level TRIM support).

In you have an SSD that supports TRIM, and you’re running OS X 10.6.8 or Lion, follow the below instructions to enable TRIM. Note: This involves the use of terminal commands, so proceed at your own risk.

TRIM can be enabled by using the Terminal commands contained within this document.

Simply right click and download this DOC file to find out how to enable TRIM support for all SSDs in OS X Lion.

*Update: I’ve received a few emails saying that some of you are having issues with the DOC file, so I’ve uploaded this RTF file as well, which should fix any issues you may be having.

A free app called Trim Enabler is also available (link) – but while Trim Enabler makes things simpler, it isn’t as reliable as using the terminal command.

If you’re looking for an SSD to use in your Macbook, I recommend checking out the OCZ Vertex 4 or the Sandisk Extreme.

For more helpful tips, check out our full collection of tutorials by visiting our How-To category!

  • http://comefortheride.com Wei Yang

    Why are the [REMOVE ME]‘s in there?

  • Brad Hartmann

    i get an error on the second line: syntax error near unexpected token ‘.{9}

    • Ike

      replace the quotation-marks with “real double quotes”. they get messed up when you copy and paste.

      • Ivan Lunevski

        trim enabled slowed down boot times dramatically in Lion for me. I’m running an OCZ Vertex 3

  • McKay Wei

    didn’t work for me, got the same error on the sec on line.

  • Jjjdgdj

    Why not just use Trim Enabler. It works just fine in Lion. Why make it soooo complex?

  • http://twitter.com/tehjones Chris Jones

    The reason for doing it this way is because TRIM Enabler replaces Lion files with files from Snow Leopard 10.6.8. This is a simple patch rather than replacing entire files from an older OS, which doesn’t feel right.
    You may be getting syntax errors because of the “curling quotes” in the code above. e.g., ‘ vs ’. Copy the code above to something like Textmate, vim or TextEdit. Replace the curly single quotes with a standard quote (the one you normally type on your keyboard), and remove the [REMOVE ME] sections.

    I have an Intel X25M 120GB SSD and it worked just fine.

  • Whitecatcafe

    Worked fine for me… just follow Chris Jone’s instructions and you’ll get there. Now I can uninstall ‘TRIM Support Enabler’!

  • Dhorner71

    call me a dummy but i don’t see any [REMOVE ME] sections…

    anyways i executed the four commands successfully (replacing necessary curly quotes with standard quotes) but when i reboot and open system information for the ssd, i see trim support -> no.

    i just upgraded to lion.  i did have trim support enabled in SL.

    mac mini 2010, intel X25M 120GB SSD.

    any help would be greatly appreciated.

    • Dhorner71

      okay.  i got it to work.  i replaced the curly double quotes with the standard single quote.  i still don’t see any [REOMVE ME] sections… :)

      thanks all!

  • jroney

    I have an OCZ Solid 3 and this did not work.  The perl one-liner executes fine, but after the reboot TRIM support is not enabled.  I like my MBP, but I absolutely despise Apple for doing bs like this.

  • Rootonlinux

    All the commands ran successfully, however after the reboot Trim Support was still set to no.

    MacBook Pro w/ OS X Lion
    OCZ Vertex 3 SSD

  • ALM

    I used these commands with a Wildfire SSD and worked like a charm. 

     Capacity: 120.03 GB (120,034,123,776 bytes)
      Model: Patriot Wildfire                        
      Revision: 319ABBF0
      Serial Number: PT1126A1624         
      Native Command Queuing: Yes
      Queue Depth: 32
      Removable Media: No
      Detachable Drive: No
      BSD Name: disk0
      Medium Type: Solid State
      TRIM Support: Yes
      Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
      S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified

  • http://twitter.com/NewMancunian Nick

    I cannot recommend following these instructions. In my case I executed the commands as described (yes, I replaced the quotation marks), rebooted and found TRIM was still not active.

    After rebooting later again (without changing anything regarding TRIM), my iMac didn’t want to boot from the SSD at all (crossed circle sign instead of Apple logo). I had to start the rescue system and restore the old IOAHCIBlockStorage file. After that I was able to boot again normally.

    My config: iMac 27-inch (late 2009), Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (freshly installed, not upgraded), Crucial m4 512 GB.

  • Djon

    No errors but it didn’t work for me on final Lion build with Crucial M4 512GB.

    • Christopher Price

      Worked for me on a Crucial M4 256GB w/Lion

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=714704265 Andrej Torkar

    OCZ Vertex 2 extended 240GB on MBP 15 late 2008 working fine…so far :)

  • Kokken

    thank but i get on sudo kextcache -system-caches

    Can’t create kext cache under / – owner not root.

  • http://twitter.com/onlydarksets Zak

    I get “-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’”

    Any thoughts?  Corsair CSSD-V128GB2.  Thanks!

    • Me

      Replace.. those.. Quotes…….           >>  ” to ” <<

      but.. it did not work for me either..
      Intel SSD 320 Series

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801578360 Pierre-Olivier Grimard

    “I get “-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’”

    Any thoughts?  Corsair CSSD-V128GB2.  Thanks!”
    Same thing for me.

    Any ideas someone?

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t work for me. Got the same “-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’” error as the others.

    System I tried it on:

    24-inch iMac, Early 2008
    SSD Crucial C300 256 GB
    Processor  2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
    Memory  4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    Graphics  ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
    Software  Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511)

    Thanks for the terminal command to reload the backed up file though. Now I don’t need to forever worry about glitches from trying to enable TRIM. I’m actually a little bit glad this didn’t work, it’s just too easy to be true. There’s only one reason Apple wouldn’t enable universal TRIM support, and I have to assume it’s that they weren’t able to fix some kind of big glitch. Any good SSD (which includes my C300) should have what’s known as “garbage collection” enabled within the firmware itself, and while there’s argument as to whether or not it’s as effective as TRIM in very high demand applications, it’s all the typical user or most “prosumers” will ever need. My C300 has been in use for at least 6 months and it’s actually testing a tiny bitter faster now than it did when it was new, so I’m just fine with waiting for Apple to perfect TRIM support.

  • http://bonkabonka.info/ bonkabonka

    Worked for me though I did have to replace the double-quotes around the perl regex with single-quotes to avoid bash being grumpy about “{9}”.  Enabled TRIM on my elderly Kingston SNV425-S2 (2nd-gen JMicron controller).

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  • Rotormotor

    Worked for my 320 series Intel SSD (I replaced double quotes with single quotes).

    @fugeesnfunions:disqus your attempt failed due to a parsing error, just change the quotes and it will work if your drive supports TRIM. If Apple supports TRIM on its own drives I don’t see why it wouldn’t work perfectly fine on third party drives. TRIM is a standard, which means the only case they can be concerned about it not working properly is a bad implementation of it in a crappy SSD controller.

  • Anonymous

    your ‘bash syntax error’ stuff is because you are copying smart quotes into the terminal. paste the commands into terminal and replace the smart quotes with regular double quotes.

    i ran these on mine and after i rebooted i got a kernel panic. sooo i personally wouldnt recommend it. i had to plug my macbook into another machine to restore from the kext backup.

    im on a APPLE SSD TS256A

  • Anonymous

    your ‘bash syntax error’ stuff is because you are copying smart quotes into the terminal. paste the commands into terminal and replace the smart quotes with regular double quotes.

    i ran these on mine and after i rebooted i got a kernel panic. sooo i personally wouldnt recommend it. i had to plug my macbook into another machine to restore from the kext backup.

    im on a APPLE SSD TS256A

  • jo

    this didn’t work for me.  tried with replaced double and single quotes.  crucial m4 128, os x lion.

  • hazard

    Editing worked fine (I replaced the quotes). But it did not seem to have any effect. My SSD (OCZ Vertex2) is still listed with “Trim = no” in About This Mac.

    Any suggestions?

  • Jasonwsaz

    Didn’t work for me. I have a OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD 120GB.  I replaced the quotes in the code, but after a reboot it still showed trim as NOT being enabled.

    I am running OSX Lion 10.7.0

  • http://techneur.com/ JP

    Worked great for me. Replace the double quotes in the code with single quotes. Don’t forget to reboot. I have an Intel 510 128 Gig SSD drive on an MBP earl 2011.

  • Jay

    Works for me.

    2008 MacBook Pro, 10.7, Intel 160gb G2

    Thanks Glen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1201823466 Robert Boehner

    Worked for my OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD. 
    Had to replace the double / smart quotes in the ‘perl’ command with single quotes as others have done.
    Glenn, thanks for the article, I’m definitely saving these steps.

  • Radek

    Worked for my computer.
    MacBook Pro 2010, MAC OS X Lion 10.7, ADATA SSD S599 128GB
    Had to replace the double / smart quotes in the ‘perl’ command with single quotes as others have done.

    Glenn, thanks

  • Ivan Dikic

    Its working great, only change this “ with ‘. I have OCZ VERTEX 3 120 GB and mac book pro 13″ 2011

  • Voyager

    Worked great for me too!
    OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb on 17″ MBP core i5 2.53Ghz OS X 10.7

    Thanks!

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  • Anonymous

    Having fixed the double quotes this still didn’t work for me. MBP 2011, OCZ Vertex 3 128GB.

  • Greaserz2003

    didn’t work on samsung 470 256gb macbook pro 5,3

  • sprawli

    Worked for me as well with the single quotes.  I have a 2011 17″ MacBook Pro and KINGSTON SNVP325S2512GB.
    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 158.6px; text-indent: -158.6px; font: 11.0px ‘Lucida Grande’}

  • http://lukedorny.com Luke Dorny

    There are typos

  • http://twitter.com/micros Michiel van der Ros

    Great manual, it’s amazing you worked this out!
    However I don’t think it worked, since system info for my SSD still says “TRIM Support: No”. Is that the only way to check? It’s an OCZ Vertex2 120gb in a MacBook Pro i7 2010. Lion is still indexing after the install, so maybe that needs to be finished first?

    • http://twitter.com/micros Michiel van der Ros

      Restored backup, tried again, got some warnings (JMicronATA.kext does not declare a kernel dependency; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.), rebooted and…
      TRIM is enabled now! 
      Any idea what those warnings mean though?

  • Francois Dillenger

    Brilliant, also worked for me.  13″ 2010 MBP with Lion and OCZ Deneva DENCSTE251M2X-0240.  Like others have mentioned, just needed to replace the fancy left/right quotes with plain old single quotes.

  • Dale Stanbrough

    I keep getting -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’

    • TheAngryIntern

      I get that error as well

      EDIT: I replaced the two fancy quotes like other people mentioned and the command went through. After a reboot it now says TRIM is supported, thanks a bunch!

  • Andrew

    Can you post the correct syntax command as I have the token error?

    • http://MacTrast.com J. Glenn Kunzler

      That’s the best I can do – just replace the fancy single quotes with straight single quotes (‘). I can’t get WordPress to display the straight single quotes.

      • James Clarke

        Use the <pre> tags.

      • Tonguetwister

        This worked for me. Thanks!

      • http://www.mst-music.ch/ MST

        Thanx a lot. Works perfectly.

      • itpatruljen

        Worked like a charm. thanks a lot

  • Rob

    Hey it worked for me. Just wanna say thank you so much. This was REALLY bothering me. Ive been searching and searching for a fix. And like others said, change the fancy (‘) to simple straight ones (‘).

  • RPD

    Worked very well. I had the same issue as others with the “fancy quotes”, simply copied the commands into TextEdit, changed the quote marks, and followed the rest verbatim. Thank you! 

  • Alkeran

    Worked for me with 10.7.1 and OCZ Vertex 2 in a mid 2009 13′MBP.
    Thanks a lot !

  • http://twitter.com/GEOPS22 Georgi Stoyanov

    Worked like a charm :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/steve.follmer Steve Follmer

    Mac Mini 2009, Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC 80GB. Worked on 10.7. Did System Update to 10.7.1, did not have to re-patch in this instance. Working.

  • Anonymous

    Worked for me with 10.7.1 and SAMSUNG 470 Series SSD(256GB) in a late 2009 Mac mini (2.53GHz)Thank you very much!

  • Opticalserenity

    1. Worked great, thanks.

    2. If your SSD still shows no TRIM support check for firmware upgrades. I had to upgrade mine and it now does have TRIM.

    3. Has anyone’s Mac became super slow with TRIM enabled?

  • Lukesgreyt

    It worked on iMac 7.1 with OCZ Vertex 2 120GB 3.5′! 
    Thanks a mill!Only thing I had to change for the patch to be applied where the quotes “‘”

  • Cezi86

    I confirm – vertex 3 (mine 240GB) works great on MB466 (MB5,1/end of 2008, alu)

  • Memorypoints

    Brand Spankin’ new Mac Mini 2.5i5 10.7.1 remote installed from Apple servers on Intel 320 G3 80GB and this worked beautifully (once I read the tip about changing the quotes . . . RIF!) without installing the latest firmware upgrade (can’t get past FreeDOS_ prompt, but that’s a diseased chicken of another color . . .) but no x whatever bug, firmware 4PC10302 still installed, positive trim and 12 second start ups.  Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    When I tried to patch to enable TRIM I get this error:

    -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’

    • http://MacTrast.com J. Glenn Kunzler

      You have to replace the squiggly quote marks with straight ones.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks, that worked.

      • Herrbraun

        Worked for me – new 13″ MBP with Lion, Crucial C300 128Gb SSD (firmware 0007)

  • Actkoppenaal

    Worked excellent,

    Mac mini 2011
      Model Identifier:    Macmini5,1
      Processor Name:    Intel Core i5
      Processor Speed:    2.3 GHz
    OCZ-AGILITY3 120gb

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  • http://twitter.com/owner Tobias Kirschstein

    worked perfectly for me on old unibody MB running 10.7.1 and 128GB OCZ-VERTEX

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QHQXP2T74DE75HE2D4AGKL22ME Billy

    Worked for me. Lion 10.7.1, Multibeast 3, Kingston 128G SATA2 SSD.

  • Guest

    KINGSTON SV100S264G – Worked for me – Thanks

  • Anonymous

    THANK YOU – worked on early 2008 MacBook Pro 4,1 Vertex 2 60GB

  • Corey Mccormick

    It freezes up my computer every now and then… how can I remove it? I tried everything in your instructions even as far as manual reverting, and it’s still showing TRIM Support: Yes.

    Any help would be great.

    • http://MacTrast.com J. Glenn Kunzler

      This is why I recommended backing up – you could simply restore from a Time Machine backup if things went sour.  Did you try replacing the quotes in the removal command with straight single quotes?

    • Matt

      This might be due to it still cleaning up free space from before TRIM was enabled.  Wiping free space would help in that case.

  • Zmcrack

    Worked fine with mac mini 2011 and vertex 2 120gb with 1.33 firmware. But I had to do the process from an admin account and altering the quotes.

  • Ggogins

    Worked 1st try w/o any errors!  Running Macbook Pro 2009 w/ Intel SSD 320 160gb.  Blazingly fast!!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/derek.rowley1 Derek Rowley

    I get the following:
    -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’

    • Matt

      Replace the curved quotation marks surrounding the first block (begins with “s” and ends with “sg” with single quotes.

      • Bob

        Bought last MBP 17 with a Plextor 256Gb, did work like a sharm. Just the ‘s around the sg’. 2th issue for slow boot is, to tell OSX the new boot disc. setting systems boot disc. Thanks for this post. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=796558640 Marc Jorgensen

      I get the same thing

      • Jadon

        I copied the text from the Word document and pasted it into textedit and then removed all text formatting. After that I replaced the single quotation marks with new single quotation marks. I copied that text, pasted it into terminal. Everything worked for me then.

    • jeanluc

      me too. Do you have fixed?

      • http://MacTrast.com J. Glenn Kunzler

        Just swap out the quotation marks for straight single quotes. WordPress won’t display those.

        • http://twitter.com/pahatom Tom West

          The document i have downloaded already has single quotation marks and i still get the error message. so i’m not sure what to do now?

          • Jadon

            I copied the text from the Word document and pasted it into textedit and then removed all text formatting. After that I replaced the single quotation marks with new single quotation marks. I copied that text, pasted it into terminal. Everything worked for me then.

        • Chemphysical

           this fix for for me. ocz agility 3 240 gb macbook pro 17 nividia 9600m gt  CD2 2.8 ghz

  • Pinky Chukkles

    Thanks very much – appeared to

  • Jason

    Worked like a charm on a MBP 5,2 with OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. The ads on this page cover up a portion of the commands. I highlighted the text from “Backup the file that you’re about to patch:” to “If you decide to try this, let us know how it worked for you in the comments!”, opened TextEdit and copied it into there, replaced the quotation marks with the straight ones, and then copied the commands into Terminal. I also saved the TextEdit document to my Documents folder for future reference if I need the commands again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/phillo.it Massimo Gentilini

    Did it, worked.

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  • Jim

    This worked for me on a fresh install of Lion with a Crucial M4! Thanks Mactrast for helping to prevent crappy SSD performance in the days to come!

  • Dennis Raphael

    In second line it says: cannot execute binary file

  • Dennis Raphael

    When I Applied the second line aperas: cannot execute binary file

    Any idea?
    Thank you,
    Dennis

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=39112981 Josiah McGuckin

    worked for me while running OS X 10.7.2 on a 240GB Mushkin SATA II SSD (after replacing the quotes as mentioned in earlier comments)… thanks for the tip!

  • http://twitter.com/parker Patrick

    Worked like a charm for me with a Corsair Force 3 SSD. I’m glad that I was able to get TRIM enabled on my third-party SSD, thanks for the tip!

  • Jgarciaserra

    I’ve done it, and now I have a prohibited symbol at startuo and system dont booting!!! What can I do? Help me please

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586100673 Paolo Xavier C. Dizon

    Worked perfectly for me. Lion 10.7.2 and OCZ Vertex2. Thank for the tip!

  • Chris

    Worked for me. 2008 Macbook (not pro) aluminum body 2.4 Core 2 Duo, Patriot Wildfire 240Gb

  • gaansan

    Thank you very much! :) ) it worked well with my Asus Rampage III gene Hack LION 10.7.2 and
    Corsair Force 3 SSD:
      Capacity: 240.06 GB (240,057,409,536 bytes)
      Model: Corsair Force 3 SSD                     
      Revision: 1.3.2   
      Serial Number: 1140820400001028031C
      Native Command Queuing: Yes
      Queue Depth: 32
      Removable Media: Yes
      Detachable Drive: No
      BSD Name: disk0
      Medium Type: Solid State
      TRIM Support: Yes
      Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
      S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
      Volumes:
    disk0s1:
      Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
      BSD Name: disk0s1
      Content: EFI
    LION:
      Capacity: 239.71 GB (239,713,435,648 bytes)
      Available: 218.52 GB (218,517,102,592 bytes)
      Writable: Yes
      File System: Journaled HFS+
      BSD Name: disk0s2
      Mount Point: /
      Content: Apple_HFS

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  • David Jung

    Tried this on Lion 7.10.2 and it didn’t work.  I used diff to verify that the perl regex replace did indeed replace the “APPLE SSD” with an empty string, but I still get “Trim: No” on the disk info.  Using a Corsair Force series SATA II drive in a Mac Pro 1,1.

  • David Jung

    Tried this on Lion 7.10.2 and it didn’t work.  I used diff to verify that the perl regex replace did indeed replace the “APPLE SSD” with an empty string, but I still get “Trim: No” on the disk info after restart.  Using a Corsair Force series SATA II drive in a Mac Pro 1,1.

  • David Jung

    My bad – it did work for me, once I flushed the caches.  
    (couldn’t edit or delete original comment as it doesn’t show up)

  • NetWobble

    Works perfect on a 2010 MacMini with an Intel 320 Series 120 GB

  • Isidoros

    Work like a charm on my OWC mercury extreme pro 480gb.Thanx a lot dude have a nice day!

  • ST

    Many thanks – it worked for me with mbp 3,1 and Corsair F120 SSD Lion 10.7.2.

    ST.

  • J4h03p

    Didn’t get an error or anything like that, I tried this on a 2011 top custom model 15″ mpb, with an vertec2 ssd, it starts up in under 12 seconds! System profiler still says TRIM is not enabled, and although I know it doesn’t have to say enabled to be enabled, I’m not sure it is.. Before I did this, the SSD was working fine, but I thought it could be better, and now that I enabled TRIM, I think I can see a slight speed improvement, but I’m not sure.. 
    Anyway, thanks for the post! 

  • Cnphyt

    Worked as described. MBP 13″ Mid 2009 with Corsair Force 3 Series 120 GB.
    Thanks!

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  • ben

    worked for me with a INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC

  • Bjorn

    Worked great for me, intel 160GB G2GC. Thanks for that!

  • Joe

    In Safari the stupid adds running down the right side of the page completely destroy the syntax of every command. I hope this text is mirrored on some other site I can track down.

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  • KaraThrace

    sweet… thanks dude

  • Kevinopp1-69

    happily worked for me once i fixed the quotation issue! i have the Crucial M4 512.

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  • B12345678

    it works great!
    Thanks!

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  • Ben Clark

    Thank you for the help everyone!  Worked for me after changing the ‘ to ‘

    2010 MacBookPro5,5 13″ ,  128GB SSD from OCZ

  • Jason Johnson

    Very nice. Worked for me. the key is you copy the Terminal Command from the .doc and past it into a TXT file then change the quotes then copy that and past it into the Terminal.

  • Leoviotti

    Thank you, worked perfectly, after I changed the quotation marks! :)

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  • Jeffrey FISCHMAN

    works like a charm
    macbook pro with Lion
    word processor was word for mac

  • Dale Gaudry

    Awesome… changed to the single quotes, works great. Thanks,

  • Flip

    Worked perfectly with a macbook pro 7.1 13″ and OCZ Octane S2.

  • Stryjo

    Watch out as Lion updates might revert the setting to NO as happened on my OCZ Vertex 2. So check the setting after every Software Update.

  • Piti

    Does not work with 10.7.5 i use the App Trim Enabler for 10.7.5 and this works.

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  • Sean

    When I’m patching the file to enable TRIM, i get the following error: “-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `.{9}’”

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  • autnagrag

    Did you get past this? I got a similar error

    myuser$ sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
    Can’t read info dictionary for HotSync Classic Seize.kext: IOCFUnserialize: syntax error near line 1.
    Can’t read info dictionary for HotSync Classic Seize.kext: IOCFUnserialize: syntax error near line 1.
    Kernel file /mach_kernel does not contain requested arch: i386

    myuser$

    This put me in mind of my old Palm handheld… Rebooting did NOT show trim support for my INTEL SSDSA2M120G2GC with firmware 2CV102M3

  • Keith Wycoff

    I got exactly the same message and TRIM support was not enabled when I checked in “about this mac”. Did you find a solution?

  • PJL500

    Same here: “Kernel file /mach_kernel does not contain requested arch: i386″
    Cannot get any further with this. TRIM support: No.
    Any fix?

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