10.5.8(Leopard) to 10.6.3(Snow Leopard)

Can I upgrade directly from 10.5.8(Leopard) to 10.6.3(Snow Leopard)

Oh ok... This is what I downloaded http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1018
That's not the Combo version. Install Snow Leopard from its DVD, then use Software Update. That will get all the required updates.

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What happens to iweb-built site when I upgrade from Leopard (10.5.8) to Snow Leopard (10.6.3), and subsequently upgrade to 10.6.8 or even 10.7? Will fonts stay the same? Will layout change? Or anything else change? Thanks

What happens to iweb-build site when I upgrade from Leopard (10.5.8) to Snow Leopard (10.6.3) and subsequently update that to 10.6.8 or even to 10.7? Evidently iweb has been discontinued. I have version 3.0.3 of iweb now but understand that there's been an update for OS 10.6 so same question goes for this update.
Will fonts change? Will layout change? Will widgets still work? Links? Will Google Analytics PlugIn still work?
(Since MobileMe is disappearing, I now save iweb site to local folder on my computer, then upload it to GoDaddy using Cyberduck. I run Google Analytics plug in on folder before its uploaded.)
My computer, MacBook Pro came with iweb, which has been updated to 3.0.3. Since iweb is discontinued, will upgrade of operating system just ignore iweb so that iweb will run the same as before? Or will it wipe it out? Or change how it currently works (questions above).
Thanks

As you now know iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
Currently if the site is published directly from iWeb to the 3rd party server the RSS feed and slideshow subscription features will work. However, if the site is first published to a folder on the hard drive and then uploaded to the sever with a 3rd party FTP client those two features will be broken.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: iW14 - Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
NOTE: the iLife 11 boxed version Is no longer available at the online Apple Store. To get a copy you'll have to try Amazon.com or eBay.com.
This may be of interest to you: Life After MobileMe.
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Upgrading from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6 without CD

i wannt to upgrade from leopard 10.5.8 to snow leopard 10.6 but when i install from the snow leopard cd the installation stucks after a few minutes an all i see is a grey display witht the apple boot logo, how can i now upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard?

Ok... I was just making sure you had the correct disc.
Better boot from your original Mac install disc and run Disk Utility. The startup disk may need repairing before you can upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Insert your install disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu and launch Disk Utility.
(In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first from the installer menu)
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your startup disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window. Where you see Capacity and Available. Make sure there is always 15% free space.

Can i upgrade leopard 10.5.8 to snow leopard

can i upgrade leopard 10.5.8 to snow leopard 10.6.

Yes, if your Mac has an Intel CPU and at least 1GB of RAM. Choose About this Mac from the Apple menu to check.
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Anybody have problems updating from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or can I expect an easy update?

Anybody have problems updating from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or can I expect an easy update?

rrk224 wrote:
Anybody have problems updating from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or can I expect an easy update?
You shouldn't have too much trouble provided you have a relatively clean system.
You should backup your personal users folders off the machine to a regular storage drive (not TimeMachine) and disconnect.
10.6 upgrade strips out the 10.5 PPC code your not using and offers faster video drivers and some neat features like Exposé and Spaces which is highly productive as you can have 4-16 desktops visible at once and move stuff around between them (10.7 ripped that out)
10.6 is the fastest OS X version Apple has made, 10.5 is universal (more code and older video drivers) and 10.7 is slower than 10.6 in tests on the same hardware.
Your 10.5 install disk should be working, (check it first) stick it in and reboot holding the c key down, you should be able to boot from the disk. Apple isn't offering replacement 10.5 disks anymore so it needs to work in case you want to downgrade from 10.6.
You can learn how to make copies of your 10.5 disk online. I would do so.
You might decide to Carbon Copy Cloner (free/donations) your present 10.5 system to a blank external powered drive, you then can hold the option key and boot from it, erase and reverse clone back to your internal drive if you wish.
10.6 will run all your 10.5 software (some may need a update) as it has Rosetta, a compatibility system for 10.5 code. 10.7 does not, it will not run your present Rosetta/10.5 software at all, you will have to buy all new versions. Also older hardware likely won't work neither, like printers, scanners and all-in-ones etc as their drivers either won't get a update or they won't make one to force a premature hardware turnover.
If your upgrading your older 10.5 machine to 10.7, I'd advise against it, there isn't as much software ready for 10.7 (like 10.6) because it's forcing developers to rewrite their PPC based code
10.7 is slower and more glitchs than 10.6, more depressing gray all over and strange UI changes.
Also 10.8 is due out this summer and may not run on older hardware, so it's looking like you will be best off with 10.6.8 and leaving it at that to get the most software choice/performance and leave 10.8 for a new hardware/software purchase.
If your going to 10.7 anyway, then check this database to make sure the software your going to have to buy is ready or not. IMO, Lion for you and your older machine is a wasted effort and better the new software on a new hardware purchase.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
I must admit though I throughly hate OS X Lion, as do a lot of other people, it's only because it's quality is absolutely terrible and unbecoming of Apple, likely why Mountain Lion 10.8 is being released this summer a year in advance and only a year after Lion. However my opinion about Lion's poor quality isn't relfected in my advice to you. For you it's more of a older hardware/have to buy all new software type deal which a newer machine with 10.8 and promises to be better/more refined OS than 10.7.
So in other words, upgrade to 10.6.8 and stay there, save your pennies for a new machine Early 2013, by then 10.8 would have several months and a lot of software/bugs worked out for it.

I have a Macbook with leopard and an iMac with Snow Leopard. Can I sync my iMac contacts and calendar to my Macbook via bluetooth?

I have a Macbook with leopard and an iMac with Snow Leopard. Can I sync my iMac contacts and calendar to my Macbook via bluetooth?

I have a Macbook with leopard and an iMac with Snow Leopard. Can I sync my iMac contacts and calendar to my Macbook via bluetooth?

Wiped my entire macbook drive and now snow leopard won't install over snow leopard server, HELP!

I ordered, what I thought, was Snow Leopard a while ago because I was running Leopard and I wanted to get the app store so I could move onto Lion and then Mountain Lion. I ordered the disc over the phone and the woman sent me the Snow Leopard Server instead of just Snow Leopard, I didn't think much about it so I clean installed it and ran it on my unibody macbook for a while. I didn't see much use for the disc anymore seeing that everything was downloadable at this point, so I sold the disc on Ebay and carried on. The server edition started to slow my computer down due to all of its excess applications and what not, and I read online that Lion and Mountain Lion are also very slow on the old unibody Macbooks so I ordered a regular Snow Leopard disc, now available online, and tried to install it. My computer said Snow Leopard cannot be installed over Snow Leopard server so I went to disc utitlity and wiped my entire drive while the OS X Snow Leopard disc was running and trying to install. I went back to the install window and it still said OS X Snow leopard cannot be installed over Snow Leopard Server so I shut down my computer and tried to turn it back on and I all I got was a blinking folder with a question mark in it, what do I do????????
P.S. All of my content is backed up on an external harddrive so I am all good with that.

Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. After formatting has finished quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the Snow Leopard installation.

If my mac runs on leopard os, and not te snow leopard os , does this mean i can't purchase the new lion os?

if my mac runs on the leopard OS and not the snow leopard os, does this mean i can't purchase the new lion os?

We probably don't know the whole story yet.
The big announcement Steve Jobs made was, of course, a sales pitch with all the "gee whiz" stuff -- no nitty-gritty, gory details.
Apple's "How to buy" post (http://www.apple.com/macosx/how-to-buy/) clearly says "To upgrade on day one" -- no mention of day two, or twenty.
It would be rather silly for Apple to take the position that, if you don't have broadband (for a 4 GB download), they don't want you as a customer. So it's likely there will be an alternative for such folks, such as a DVD or USB stick, possibly for a nominal extra fee. If so, that might also allow updating directly from Leopard.
When the actual release date is announced, there should be more details.

Hola! como puedo actualizar mi leopard 10.5.8 a snow leopard, soy de Argentina

hola! como puedo actualizar mi leopard 10.5.8 a snow leopard, soy de Argentina y no se
si puedo comprar o me mandan algun cd de instalacion, ya q acá no hay app store!

Hola,
Nieve Leopard/10.6.x Requisitos ...
requisitos generales
* Ordenador Mac con un procesador Intel
* 1 GB de memoria (lo digo por lo menos 4 GB, más si se lo puede permitir)
* 5 GB de espacio disponible en disco (lo digo por lo menos 30 GB)
* Unidad de DVD para la instalación
* Algunas características requieren un proveedor de servicios de Internet compatible; puede ser de pago.
* Algunas características requieren servicio MobileMe de Apple, honorarios y aplicar los términos.
¿Qué aplicaciones funcionan con Mac OS X 10.6? ...
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Llamada de ventas de Apple, otros países ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57

If I upgrade from 10.5.8 (Leopard) to 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) will I have to reinstall all of my applications? Along with that, will it update all of my applications?

If I upgrade from 10.5.8 (Leopard) to 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) will I have to reinstall all of my applications? Along with that, will it update all of my applications?

You can upgrade 10.6 right over 10.5 with hardly any issues.
You will not have to resintall any applications, and the only applicaitons that get updates are the bundled one's Apple includes. Not your third party ones, those require your manual updates, but likely not paid updates for the most part.
10.6 is for Intel processors, offeres video card driver improvements, some new UI tweaks and strips out the PPC processor code your not using.
Your sort of already using Snow Leopard already under Leopard, as Leopard is for both Intel and PPC processors.
Now if your thinking of updating to 10.6 to get to 10.7, then yes, your older programs from Leopard and even some from Snow Leopard will not work in Lion 10.7
So 10.6 is as far as you go.

ICal backed up with Leopard cannot be open with Snow Leopard!!!!

I cloned my MacBook Pro HD to an external one while using OSX 10.5. After upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 when I try to open iCal on the external HD there is a message saying "You can't use this version of the application iCal.app with this version of Mac OS X. You have iCal.app 3.0.8".
In fact, the external HD version of iCal is 3.0.7.
With the upgrade to SL the version changed to 4.0.
The same thing occurs trying to open Mail; it tells me the external HD version is 3.6, while the SL version is 4.1
Apple support told me that in fact this is the way it is supposed to work!!!! So am I totally stuck? Is the clone totally worthless?
Has Apple ever been this "intelligent" before?? How many other "improvements" have they made?
Can anybody help me?

AFDT wrote:
I cloned my MacBook Pro HD to an external one while using OSX 10.5. After upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 when I try to open iCal on the external HD there is a message saying "You can't use this version of the application iCal.app with this version of Mac OS X. You have iCal.app 3.0.8".
So why are you trying to run an application from a clone of Leopard while started up from Snow Leopard? If you start up from the clone, you will be running Leopard & all the Leopard versions of the apps will run just fine. If you start up from Snow Leopard, all the Snow Leopard versions of the apps will run just fine.

Help! I recently upgraded from Leopard (10.5.8) to Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and now my iTunes won't open!

So I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. And at first, never received the option to like, carry stuff over from a back up. So I went to the Apple Store and they fixed that, and it looked like everything was fine and dandy and my content was there. I get home, and try to open iTunes and now am receiving this message: The file “iTunes Library.itl” cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. Would you like to download iTunes now?
I click yes, but there are no updates/downloads of iTunes available, so nothing happens, it just says no updates at this time. I am very nervous about losing my library as I've collected a lot of songs and meticulously organized them over the past five years. How can I get iTunes to open? And without doing anything to lose my library? Please help, I'm super stressed and freaking out.

Download iTunes from Apple's web site and install it. Don't use Software Update.

Install Leopard with boot camp on snow leopard.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard and have a piece of line 6 hardware that is not compatible. Updated drivers are taking forever to come out and I need to use this hardware. I'm wondering if it would be possible to use boot camp to install leopard from the installation disk included with my macbook so that I can boot to it to use the line 6 device.
Any help would be appreciated.

The easiest way is to use Disk Utility in the Utilities folder to create a 2 partition set up. Disk Utility will be able to do this without erasing your existing information.
- Select your volume the one with the disk size at the top
- Click on Partition
- Change the Volume Scheme to 2 partitions
- Answer any messages and such
I am sorry since I have mine partitioned with BootCamp for my Windows 7 partition, I am unable to describe all of the steps as BootCamp locks me out of performing the rest of the steps.

Upgrade Snow Leopard 10.6.2 to Snow Leopard Server 10.6

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade one existing Mac with SL (10.6.2) to SLServer. SLS was bought 2 months ago and I guess it's still the original 10.6. When I try to install it over the updated Snow Leopard it will fail with an error indicating that it is an older version.
Questions:
- Is there a way to downgrade the SL to 10.6 again?
- Is there a way to create an "upgraded SLServer 10.6.2" from a DVD + 10.6.2.Combo Update.
Thanks for any help.
prc

The [Mac OS X Server / Upgrading and Migrating Version 10.6 Snow Leopard manual|http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Upgradingand_Migratingv10.6.pdf] contains this key detail (buried) on page 10:
+The promoting of a Mac OS X v10.6 client computer to a Mac OS X Server v10.6 is not supported.+
which certainly implies you're going to have to wipe the disk, install, and reload your files from archive.

How do I run OS X Leopard on a OS X Snow Leopard iMac?

My issue goes as follows:
I recently purchased a used drum scanner and the software controlling it (ColorQuartet) runs up until OS X 10.5.8 only.
I use an iMac that shippied with OS X 10.6.8 (see system details below). Now, is there any possible - and advisable - way that I can run Leopard on my Snow Leopard machine?
I have partitioned my drive and made a 20GB OS X leopard partition. When I tried to install it (from a DVD), the installer ran until reboot (for install)... then nothing happened and I had to reboot again with option key pressed and chose to boot from HD rather than DVD... Since then, my startup has been slower - it dwells with a blank screen for 20 secs before the apple logo shows up. Apart from that, no noticable harm has occured to the system.
I do know, that it is not recommended to run a previous version of the OS than what shipped with the system. Is there any workaround here, that does not involve investing in another Mac for the household (there is already three, and no, none of them runs Leopard).
Thanks in advance for any input.
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac11,3
Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:          2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          8 MB
Memory:          8 GB
note: the reason ColorQuartet does not work with newer version of OS X is presumably because of changes in Quicktime.

I recently purchased a used drum scanner
How quaint!
Now, is there any possible - and advisable - way that I can run Leopard on my Snow Leopard machine?
No.
the reason ColorQuartet does not work with newer version of OS X is presumably because of changes in Quicktime.
Then it may still work if you use Quicktime 7 instead of 10. If it can't even use QT 7 then get rid of it.
Mac OS X 10.6 includes QuickTime versions 10.0 and 7.6.3. The QuickTime 7 player will only be present if a QuickTime Pro key was present at the time of installation, or if specified as part of a custom install, or individually downloaded:
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl923
Snow Leopard update 10.6.4 included an update to 7.6.6 (if installed). You can install it from the above link even though it says for 10.6.3. It's the same version of QuickTime Player 7.6.6.
(Only QuickTime Player 7.6.3 or 7.6.6 can be updated to "Pro".)
A Mac OS X v10.6, OS X Lion, and OS X Mountain Lion-compatible version of QuickTime Player 7 is available for use with older media or with AppleScript-based workflows. QuickTime Player 7 can be used to playback formats such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime Movies, and MIDI files. Also, it supports QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes for access to QuickTime Pro functionality.

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