Delete or uninstall snow leopard

how to delete or uninstall snow leopard

I too would like to uninstall Snow Leopard.    The only instructions I can find involve erasing and re-formatting the disc.  I do not want to do that.
I have done a dual-boot installation of Lion and SL on a new SSD (I have an old Mac Pro and cannot go newer than Lion).    My old HD is now just for user accounts.   But it still has SL on it, and I don't need or want it to be there.   So that's why I want to un-install without erasing the disc (and the user accounts that are there).    I suppose I could just delete the toplevel System, Applications, and Library folders - but that seems weird.   Or just copy the user accounts to backup, erase the disc, and copy the user accounts back - but that's kinds scary.
Thanks.

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    Sorry to hear that, Snow Leopard runs as fast or faster than either Tiger and Leopard did on my Jan 2006 Early Intel iMac on 2GB of RAM?
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  • How do I uninstall snow leopard? please help

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  • Before upgrade the mountain lion need to uninstall snow leopard ?? or its automatically upgrade?

    please help me

    You can just upgrade to Mountain Lion.  You do not need to uninstall Snow Leopard.

  • Is it possible to uninstall Snow Leopard?

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  • Guest Account Bug Resets User Accounts and Deletes Files on Snow Leopard

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    So once I was returned I logged on as my normal user, to find my Desktop reset, my Dock reset, my Documents, Music and Photos reset and all my software reset.
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    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2157518&start=15&tstart=0
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2171494&tstart=0
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2142272&start=30&tstart=0
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    http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10346974-263.htmll?tag=mncol;txt
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    Message was edited by: dbferrari

    Maybe it will be usefull but last days I tried to login as *Guest* (because I didn't want to logout as my user). In *system preferences* I allowed guest login, then I fast switched to *Guest Account*, do some changes in profile like mouse movement and so on, then I correctly logged out and logged once more to my account. Now I affraid off rebooting macbook (I always hybernate system with changed default settings which store memory into HDD) until the fix will be released. Probably the data was not removed, because I was logged in as me and */Users/$USER* was still in use. Now I am wondering if I can reboot safelly macbook without losing my data..
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  • How can I uninstall snow leopard

    I bought and installed Snow Leopard, but now my Norton does not work, and i have read there is no solution to this. I would rather just go back to the previous OS.  I have Time capsule, but when Igo back to a desktop prior to the installation, , If I restore it, it does not replace the OS.  Is there a way to manually uninstall the Leopard OS and reinstall the old one?

    Upgrade to Lion. Supported, runs well on most - drops support for Rosetta (PowerPC) which is one reason it does run smoothly.
    If you can upgrade to Mountain there is more support for newer graphic cards.
    I would avoid any pre-SL like plague. And, there is no security support there.
    It is always good to list your hardware and have it added to your profile.
    Avoids guess work.
    Cloning helps and you can dual boot if you must, but a clean install of SL and all the updates on 2nd drive and then use Setup Assistantant if you want to stay with 10.6.8. Lion or Mountain are very inexpensive downloads form AppStore.
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  • Uninstall snow leopard and go back to tiger 10.4.11

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    Yes, you will need to erase the drive and install Tiger from scratch. You may want to make a backup of your current drive just in case. I suggest cloning it to an external drive:
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  • Uninstall Snow Leopard

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    Message was edited by: TheAdmiral

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  • How can i uninstall snow leopard, how can i uninstall snow leopard

    How can I uninstall snow leopard

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