Downgraded from Lion

just putting it out there.
I feel so much more relief now that i'm back to the old OS.
I just don't see anything in SL or Lion that made me want to stick with them.
Everything just works in Leopard. I just don't see the downsides of older technology. if it aint broke, why break it?
I would suggest to anyone who is stressed about the changes apple has made in the past years, just to calm yourself and downgrade.

Hi Sam, I agree totally, except that Internet security is becoming a nightmare and later OSes can protect you a little better & close the barn door sooner after the Cows leave!

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How can I downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard?

Hello.
Yesterday, I upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X (10.7 Lion) from 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. However, I wish to downgrade.
Obviously, I would like to not lose any data at all. However, I have never downgraded before.
I still have the Snow Leopard installation disk that came with my Mac.
How should I do this? I was thinking it would be easiest to simply head on over to an Apple Store...
I did some research (aka Googling), and I read up on the subject quite a bit.
If I simply put in the disk, will I be able to downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard as easily as the upgrade was?
Also, I have heard about holding down the "C" button to do this... how exactly?
I have never backed up my Mac, nor used Time Machine.
Also, is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a separate disk, and set it up so that I can switch between them on command?
Will all of my preferences be saved, or does this wipe everything, not just the system and libraries folders?
I realize that I have a lot of questions, and therefore I appreciate everyone's help in advance. Thanks again.
Sincerely, Zach

Backup your files.
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert Snow Leopard Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
Erase Drive
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. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Upon completion quit DU and return to installer. Install Snow Leopard. Restore your files after the installation has completed.

Password issue when re-instaling Leopard (downgrade from Lion)

Hi there!
I'm havig a problem:
I need to downgrade from Lion to Leopard, because some of the programs i use, dont work on Lion!
But im havig a problem, after Leopard instalation (and after i erased Lion)... the instalation of Leopard runs with success, but when i have to put user name and password to LOG IN... my password doesnt work! And im sure i only have this password! HELP! Any ideas on how i could reset it some how?
Without this correct password, i need to restore (from my MAC OX 10.7 backup) my MAC to Lion again, because i just cant LOG IN!!
I've made the whole process 3 times already!!
Hope i've explained myself ok.
Thanks for your help in advance... and sorry about my english!
Benny

Well, you cannot do a clean install of Snow Leopard without going through the Setup Assistant. There is an automatic suggestion for the username - typically your first name - and a blank password field you must fill in then confirm by entering a second time. If you did not do that then you have no password. Although this will not impede the ability to log in you cannot change a blank password and you cannot install software with a blank password.
So you will need to try this:
How to change your username and/or password from the Terminal
1. Boot into single-user or verbose mode
2. At the prompt enter the following commands. Press RETURN after each:
fsck -fy
mount -uw /
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
dscl . -passwd /Users/username password
Replace username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
reboot
This allows you to reset the password in single user mode without booting from the install media. The above tip is attributed to Satcomer.

I recently Downgraded from Lion to Snow Leopard 10.6. How do I update to 10.6.2 or beyond?

This is the problem... How do I fix that?

app61 wrote:
I recently Downgraded from Lion to Snow Leopard 10.6
How did you do that ?

How do I downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard without losing iWork 09? I upgraded my MBP from 10.5 (originally 10.4) to 10.6, then again to 10.7. Should I go back to 10.4, 10.5 or just to 10.6?

How do I downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard without losing iWork 09? I upgraded my MBP from 10.5 (originally 10.4) to 10.6, then again to 10.7. Should I go back to 10.4, 10.5 or just to 10.6? I don't remember which system included iWork 09 and don't want to lose it. Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the information! My sister gave me the MBP for my daughter with Leopard installed. I purchased Snow Leopard and installed it, then my daughter purchased Lion. So I do have all the installers. If iWork wasn't included with any of those, I guess my sister purchased it while running Leopard. I'll have to contact her. Thanks again.

Downgrading from Lion 10.7.5 to Snow Leopard 10.6 w/o Time Machine

I've been trying to solve this issue for a bit, and would appreciate any fresh perspectives on the issue.
I recently purchased a 2006 Mac Pro 1.1. It has a dual 2.66Ghz Xeon processor. I'm fairly sure nothing has been customized in the machine hardware-wise, and that it is in the original configuration apple sold it with in 2006.
The machine arrived with the Lion 10.7.5 OS on it, which was incompatible with some of the software plug-ins I use for editing audio, so I decided to re-install Snow Leopard 10.6. I inserted my install DVD like I would normally, and was greeted with the error message "OSX cannot be installed on this computer, please use version 23.1.1".
I checked out the forums, and seeing that this was a common problem (with what seemed like an easy fix), proceeded to try and install anyway. I booted from the DVD by holding "C" on start-up. After booting and asking what i wanted to use as my language, the error message "Mac OSX cannot be installed on this computer" was displayed. Thinking this was another glitch, I clicked "restore from back-up, then managed to use Disk Utility to wipe my HD and zero out the contents. I reformatted my HD to Mac OS Extended Journaled, Re-partitioned it, and then reset my NV or Pram (Command+option+P+R) until i heard the start-up noise twice.
Next, I restarted the computer, booted it from the disk again, and crossed my fingers it would let me install. No luck.
I don't have a second mac pro to clone, or a Time Machine back-up from this machine (as it is brand new to me). Furthermore, it's previous owner left me with no restore disks, or usb sticks to even put Lion back on (which i don't want to do anyway, but would at least make the machine functional until i can correctly install 10.6SL).
I do have a spare 2009 imac to work with in the meantime, with Snow Leopard, though I'm assuming attempting to clone that drive would screw with the drivers and firmware in the Mac Pro. Are there any tricks to re-install my OS without using a Time Machine back-up or clone? I have the DVD, my machine just doesn't seem to want to install from it. The nearest repair shop is several hours away.
I'm at a loss for what to try next. Any ideas?

The following will only work on a Mac that is capable of being booted by a retail Snow Leopard DVD. Fortunately, you can do the following on your model should you prefer. As an alternative you could simply create a second partition on the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard without having to erase the drive.
Downgrade Lion/Mountain Lion to Snow Leopard
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard 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. Set the format type to Mac OS
      Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the
      partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on
      the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard (see below.) I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner.
If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion/Mountain Lion files.

ICal and Mail don't work after downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard

Hey everyone, after an extremely awful time with with Lion (it knocked out of my audio interface AND my wireless) I downgraded back to Snow Leopard yesterday. I made a Carbon Copy of my Lion drive with all my data on an external drive (which I still have) and after wiping my local drive clean I reinstalled Snow Leopard from my disk. After it was done I chose to transfer data from another system local system (I selected everything) and an hour and a half later everything was transferred over. After doing a software update, I've found that I get big error messages with iCal, Mail, and even the App Store that say they can't open and I'm assuming that it has to do with incompatible data that got transferred from Lion. Any ideas on how to get those programs back up and running?? Thanks so much for you help!
Luke
ps. here's the error message from iCal
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _kSecOIDX509V1ValidityNotAfter
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/Versions/A/ApplePu shService
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/Versions/A/ApplePu shService

> In the device manager the two ports are listed under "other devices" and no driver is installed for them.
Indeed the USB issue seems to be related to missing drivers.
You have to install this USB 3.0 driver:
[AMD USB Driver v 2.0.7.176 Windows 7 - 64 Bit|http://www.toshiba.eu/innovation/download_driver_details.jsp?service=EU&selCategory =2&selFamily=2&selSeries=178&selProduct=7534&selSh ortMod=null&language=13&selOS=30&selType=all&yearu pload=&monthupload=&dayupload=&useDate=null&mode=a llMachines&search=&action=search&macId=&country=al l&selectedLanguage=13&type=all&page=3&ID=87792&OSI D=30&driverLanguage=42]
Furthermore you have to ensure that chipset driver was installed too.
The notebook supports ATI graphic chip and AMD chipset. The chipset driver is part of the ATI graphic card driver and therefore you should ensure that this driver would be installed too.

Downgrading from Lion to 10.6.8?

Is it possible to downgrade after installing Lion back to 10.6.8? As of last night I installed Lion onto my MBP 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (mid-2007) and my laptops performance has basically gone to **** due to Lion trying to use up all my active memory and I'd much rather go back to Snow Leopard where everything ran smoothly and I didn't have to deal with Lion's sluggish performance.

Back to Snow Leopard from Lion install method
Read and print out these instructions, your computer is going to be offline and you wil be cutoff from help until your machine is restored.
Clear the Desktop, Downloads and Trash of anything you wish to keep by placing their files in the respective Documents, Music, Pictures, Movie folders.
If you have a TimeMachine drive, update it and disconnect for the duration of this restore time. It will be your second backup system and will have to be wiped and setup again after successfully going back to Snow Leopard if it was connected to the OS X 10.7 boot drive. If it wasn't, then leave it disconnected without updating to Lion.
Backup ALL your Users folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music etc) manually (drag and drop methods) to a (not TimeMachine) external powered drive (HFS+ journaled formatted in Disk Utility) and disconnect, your going to be wiping the entire disk of ALL DATA. (warning, everything will be gone and not recovered)
Here we go!
Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP.
Look at the Utilities Menu for Disk Utility.
On the left is the name of your hard drive maker, click it and Erase (format HFS+ Journaled), give it the same name as before, and click Erase...
This should wipe the drive of ALL partitions (GUID, OS X and 10.7 Recovery, Windows if present)
When it's done, quit and install OS X 10.6. Then install all your programs from fresh sources and validate/update.
When you setup a first account, use the same user name as before, this way you can simply drag and drop the content of your previous Users folders from the external drive right back into the new Users folders and everything should work peachy. Links in iTunes to music, playlists and iPhoto links especially.
Update OS X to 10.6.8 using the Combo Update for best results.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
(Note: If your original machine had 10.5 and you want the free iLife that comes with the disks with the computer, then you'll have to install 10.5 first using the same c boot/erase/format methods as above, then update to 10.6 via the disk, then Combo Update 10.6.8)
Final step optional but highly receommended.
A lot of people use a Carbon Copy Clone of their boot drive to a HFS+Journaled external drive as a "hold the option key" bootable backup in case something goes wrong with their boot drive or need to restore to a previous OS X version.. (in addition to TimeMachine drive for more immediate backups.)
It's not advised to have a Bootable Clone and a TimeMachine partition on the same external drive, as two drives gives hardware protection in case one fails.

Downgrading from Lion w/o having SL Installation DVD?

After two month of using Lion I am so disappointed that I would like to downgrade to Snow Leopard. I bought a new iMAC in Oct 2011 with Lion pre-installed. I know that the mid 2011 iMac model has been delivered with Snow Leopard before Lion was released and published.
I do not have any SL Installation DVD. Can I buy just a standard Snow Leopard DVD set or do I have to find someone which has the original SL Installation DVD delivered with the mid 2011 iMac model before Lion was released.
Would be great if someone can provide help. Thanks.
Regards,

Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard 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. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard (see below.) I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1.
If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.
You will have to purchase a retail Snow Leopard DVD that installs a version of OS X later than the version that was originally installed from the factory. According to my information that was 10.6.6. If you cannot find a Snow Leopard DVD that installs 10.6.6 or later then you will have to order replacement discs from Apple. I suggest you do that anyway because those discs also have the installers for all the pre-bundled software that came with the computer along with the Apple Hardware Test. None of that will be on the retail DVD.

Downgrade from Lion to Leopard

Hi, I want to sell my Macbook that has Lion on it. My question is can I downgrade to Leopard using the install disk that came with it in 2008 when I bought it. I did upgrade to Snow Leopard before Lion, but must have thrown away the DVD install disk. Because my Macbook had Leopard on it when I bought it it should work right?
Or if I were to borrow my brothers Snow Leopard install disk that he got with his Macbook pro, could I use that? Is there any licensing thing that would prevent me from using an install disk from another computer?
Thanks

My question is can I downgrade to Leopard using the install disk that came with it in 2008 when I bought it.
Yes. Launch Disk Utility while booted from the disc and partition (don't erase) the internal drive with a single data partition. Give it the name "Macintosh HD". Then erase the volume you just created with the option to write zeros. Finally, run the Installer. When the installation finishes, the machine will reboot into the setup procedure. Just shut it down at that point.
Is there any licensing thing that would prevent me from using an install disk from another computer?
Yes. You have no right to copy or distribute someone else's copy of Snow Leopard. Sell the machine in the same state it was in when you got it.

IMovie won't open after downgrading from Lion to Snow Leopard

Okay iMovie 08' and 11' both worked absoloutly fine on my MacBook Pro (17" Core 2 Duo 2009 model) when I had Snow Leopard installed.
I then upgraded to Lion and iMovie 11' still worked fine but Lion had a lot of bugs so I decided to wipe and install Snow Leopard again. I then used the Migration Assistant to move my Apps from a Time Machine backup to my Mac. Everything worked okay except Java was broken. Everytime I launched a Java application it would say Java 1.5 not found. I managed to fix this with a lot of Googling.
But now I've come across another issue. I noticed that iWeb, iPhoto and iMovie will not open. The icons bounce in the dock and then they finish bouncing and it appears to have loaded, the top menubar says the application name and I can click on File, Edit from the top menu and all the normal options are presented to me. But the main interface of these programs simply does not open. I managed to fix iPhoto by reading online about removing a folder called ProKit.Framework in my Library and that worked for iPhoto perfectly it now comes up and loads like normal. But iWeb and iMovie still do not load. I don't really care about iWeb but I do care about iMovie not working as I use that all the time.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?
So far what I've tried:
1. Remove all traces of anything iLife releated on my Hard Disk including pkg receipts, cache files, .pref files and so on
2. Tried just reinstalling the entire iLife suite several times
3. Tried installing Quicktime 7 from the Snow Leopard Optional Installs DVD
4. Tried changing colour profiles on my Display (I read this worked for someone else, did nothing for me)
5. Made a new user account on my Mac and tried to run iMovie from that account, same result it 'runs' but the interface doesn't show up.
Thanks for any help you can provide

I just thought I'd reply to say that I just fixed this by deleting the following folder and afterwards running software update.
iLifeMediaBrowser in /Library/Application Support
It would appear that if you erase this folder and then reinstall iLife it does something that brings this folder back or recreates it. But if you run Software update after erasing it, it downloads this folder from Apple (about 2.5MB) and that fixes the problem completely.
Hope this helps someone else!

Retrieve backed up emails from Time machine in snow leopard after downgrading from Lion?

I installed Lion, but after putting up with it for the last month with problems like: computer crashes, slowing my computer to an unbelievably dismal speed and computer freezes at least once a day, I have now reformatted my hard drive. I have reinstalled Snow Leopard and restored all my settings, folders and applications from a time machine backup.
However, I am now back in my desktop (that's another story as all of a sudden it asked me for a password, even though I've never created one to log in) and on snow leopard- BUT I have no address book contacts and as for my email- well my email accounts appear in mail, but all my emails are lost (sent, received, inbox.... nothing there).
I desperately need those emails back as I run my own business and this has just been a nightmare. I thought that after reformatting and then restoring from a time machine back up life would go back to normal but obviously not.
Can anyone please shed some light on where I would find the folder in my time machine back up to cut and paste back over for snow leopard to show my emails again?
Thanks in advance.
Andrew

I'm on Lion but iPhoto 09 so it might have changed in iPhoto 11
But this is what I see
If yours is different try looking in the iPhoto Help pages for restoring from Time Machine

Successful downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard?

I will get to my question at the end, but first I must explain the situation:
I have an MBP Intel Core 2 Duo, circa 2006.
The case was falling apart so I bought a new MBP Intel Core i7, September 2011 model.
The new MBP came with Lion, which to my horror did not support PPC applications. I know some of the Mac OS hobbyists will say 'get over it'. However, I use Macs professionally and since I want to eat (so to speak), I must work, and to work efficiently I need Rosetta because there is quite simply no replacements available for some of my quirky software.
Lion has a couple of ways of stopping you upgrading back to Snow Leopard. Here is a simple way to do it, which allows you to keep Lion.
Boot lion and use the disk utility to create a new partition: I took 400 GB for the new SL partition and left Lion with 100 GB. Lion is pretty neat in allowing you to repartition on the fly.
Do the latest software update on the old computer (10.6.8). Restart new computer in target disk mode and connect to old computer using a firewire. On the old computer boot up Carbon Copy Cloner (freeware). Set the old computer as source and the SL partition as traget on the new computer. Simply accept all the default settings on CCC and let it to Clone (ie. backup) the source onto the target. CCC will generate an exact copy of the contents of the old computer's hard drive on the SL partition on the new machine. I believe it will aslo transfer FileVault protected accounts even if the user is not logged in.
Shut down new computer. Reboot holding down the optino key. For some reason the new SL partition was named IEF Drive (or something similar, I cant remember because it reverted back to its original name after a restart). The machine will boot into SL. Go to system preferences and select SL partion as your startup disk. All done in about 4 hours, most of which is waiting for CCC to finish! Whoopeeee.
So far it seems to me like EVERYTHING works just fine. I was particularly suprized that the Thunderbolt port was able to drive my external display either via vga or hdmi adaptors. I half expected that not to work because it is a brand new feature. Of course, it may not work with a Thunderbolt display. Howerer, since the machine is duel boot and I can go to Lion any time I feel like it.
I did have to reinstally Application Enhancer so that my Unsanity Haxies would work, but you have to do that after any migration.
Performance
Geekbench 32 bit overall score:   lion, 8473: SL, 8321
Novabench: lion, 882: SL 859
At first I had the impression that Lion was a bit swifter on start up and GUI response, so I used migration assistant to migrate my old computer user account onto the Lion partition. As expected all the login items and extra system services that came across from the old machine had a penalty for start up and shut down. After timing both I find that SL is slightly faster up and down than Lion. Even so, I am sorry not to be able to use Lion as I liked the look and feel of it right from the get go.
Never mind ...its function over form for me every time
Now my question is to ask whether others have exposed any weaknesses in a SL down/upgrade? It would help if you would post here so that I can head off any problems before I discover them in a critical situation.
Also, do the experts think SL will match the 64 bit performance of Lion, which I was unable to test because I am too mean to pay the 19 bucks for Geekbench?
Finally, I must say that after many years of daily use on countelss machines CCC has never once let me down, unlike TimeMachine.

I had said that the "function" of the user preferences in the ByHost folder won't be preserved on a different computer, not that the files wouldn't be there!
The ByHost folder contents are accurately preserved in a CCC clone, but the .plist files themselves are tagged with the "hardware UUID" of the particular computer they were made on, and will only function on that computer. Peek inside at the names of these preference files and you'll see. It's not an important issue in practice.
From Mike Bombich's CCC Knowledge Base, here:
Can I back up one computer and use the clone to restore another computer?
As long as the architectures match (e.g. intel vs. ppc), then the answer is **probably yes**. However, there are two caveats.
    Some of your preferences on Mac OS X are considered "host-specific." Preferences such as these will be ignored if you boot your cloned operating system and data from another machine. For example, the screen saver preferences are host-specific -- if you boot another machine from your bootable clone and the screen saver kicks in, you will notice that it has reverted to default settings. Do not fear that you have lost any data, your original preferences will be "restored" when you boot again from your original computer. To learn exactly what preferences are host-specific, navigate in the Finder to your home directory, then to Library/Preferences/ByHost.
    Don't install older versions of Mac OS than what comes with your computer. When you get a brand new Mac from Apple, it usually has a specific version of Mac OS X installed on it, and further, a specific "build" number. If you install an older version or build of the OS, for example by cloning your older Mac to it, then it may behave unexpectedly. When migrating your old Mac to your new Mac, be sure that your old Mac has been updated to at least one later release than what came on the new Mac. For example, if your new Mac came with 10.4.7, update your old Mac to 10.4.8 before migrating. If such an update is not available, use the Migration Assistant instead.

IPhoto 9.1.5 won't open, downgraded from Lion back to Snow Leopard

I have tried to open iPhoto and every time I get a similar error window like I have pasted below. I have reinstalled iPhoto from iLife '11 disc. I have updated until I get the message that everything is up to date. I can't help but think that priviously installing Lion and then going back to Snow Leopard has had something to do with this. I also go to "Finder>Pictures>iPhoto Library" and there is nothing there. No arrow saying there is something inside, no list of folders titled with what roll or event they belong to.. nothing.
here is a copy of the error message, it is long, and I don't know what it means
Process:         iPhoto [730]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-6150000~1
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [135]
Date/Time:       2011-07-31 13:15:16.679 -0400
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          14716 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           36
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   10
Anonymous UUID:                      6E3CAB0C-061D-4097-ABC1-D1E4ED15272A
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMedia.framework/Versions/A/CoreMedia
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ProKit.framework/Versions/A/ProKit
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4163b dyld 132.1 (???) <4CDE4F04-0DD6-224E-ACE5-3C06E169A801> /usr/lib/dyld
Model: iMac9,1, BootROM IM91.008D.B08, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.45f0
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850, ATI Radeon HD 4850, PCIe, 512 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.42.4)
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-40K1B0, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0x24400000 / 4
USB Device: Ext HDD 1021, 0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.), 0x1021, 0x24300000 / 3
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0x24100000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0x24130000 / 7
USB Device: Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver V2.0, 0x045e (Microsoft Corporation), 0x071f, 0x24110000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0220, 0x24120000 / 5
USB Device: Hub, 0x050d (Belkin Corporation), 0x0234, 0x26400000 / 2
USB Device: Deskjet 6940 series, 0x03f0 (Hewlett Packard), 0x8904, 0x26420000 / 4
USB Device: CanoScan, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x221f, 0x26410000 / 3
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000 / 2
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x06110000 / 3
FireWire Device: My Book, WD, Up to 800 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: d2 DVDRW FW/USB, LaCie, Up to 400 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0, LaCie Group SA, Up to 800 Mb/sec

This has affected a number of people who reverted from 10.7 to 10.6. Iphoto is missing some background framework that it needs.
"Library not loaded: .../Versions/A/CoreMedia
...Reason: image not found"
A reinstall may help:
To re-install iPhoto
1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.
2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type
/var/db/receipts/
2c: on 10.7 they're at
/private/var/db/receipts
A Finder Window will open at that location and you can remove the iPhoto pkg files.
3. Re-install.
If you purchased an iLife Disk, then iPhoto is on it.
If iPhoto was installed on your Mac when you go it then it’s on the System Restore disks that came with your Mac. Insert the first one and opt to ‘Install Bundled Applications Only.
If you purchased it on the App Store you can find it in your Purchases List.
However, if that doesn't help - and in the case of Core Media I wold have my doubts - you'll need to reinstall the OS.
I also go to "Finder>Pictures>iPhoto Library" and there is nothing there. No arrow saying there is something inside, no list of folders titled with what roll or event they belong to.. nothing.
This is normal. Since iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) the old iPhoto Library Folder is a Package File. This is simply a folder that +looks+ like a file in the Finder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.

TONS of broken software after downgrade from Lion...

Ihave a 13" MBP with the 2.3GZz Intel COre i5 processor. Itcame with Snow Leopard and in a moment of foolishness (Mac Newbie) Ispent the $29 and updated to Lion as soon as it came out. Needlessto say, I was very unimpressed as I lost Front Page, Expose, andSpaces. After a few days of hair pulling and research, I goteverything back to normal on Snow Leopard, so I thought. Acouple programs were broken, some completely missing.
Igot it all working again though, so I thought. Now months laterI just discovered that I didn't. And I am stuck without abackup, due to the amount of time passed, that can get this sortedout. After discovering one of my broken programs, I wentthrough and checked everything and discovered a slew of broken items. Everything on this list, I am pretty sure got updated on Lion,and was working fine before the change to Lion, then fine onceupdated on Lion. Apparently I did not check well after goingback to Snow Leopard...
Thereare a few random items, and then a bunch doing almost the same thing. I think some sort of library got damaged. I would havethought restoring to the backup would have fixed this. Themethod I used was to wipe the HDD with the Install DVD, thenreinstalled on a blank machine, and restored via the install discs. Here is hopefully a full list of the broken items.
1) Desktop and Screen Saver via Preferences or the pop up ChangeDesktop Background. However I access this it will bring uppreferences and then quit as it tries to access the second part. Oddly I found that going through every screen in preferencesand changing a few items back and forth, temporarily fixes this. Butafter correctly accessing the desktop background 1 or 2 times, itlocks up again. I can change the background by selecting theoption in Safari though...
2) Final Cut Pro takes FOREVER to stop bouncing in the dock(1-2minutes+ before it "loads" and stops bouncing) and goesinto the "restoring window layout" screen. Eventuallyyou can access menus above and it appears to be working even thoughthe startup box is still there. But if you try to select aproject, you get back the whole "restoring windows layout"and nothing ever actually happens.
Therest of the problems are all with the iWorks software suite. Noneof it works. iTunes was also broken, but it was the first thingI fixed via a simple reinstall.
3) iWeb is basically all grayed out. It loads up quickly,but no projects open. And in the taskbar I can't open a newproject. I did have a website I had been building (no big dealif lost).
4) iDvd seems to be okay at first. Opens and the new projectselection comes up. Select one and it opens. But thepinwheel keeps spinning and after 5-10 seconds it shuts down withnothing happening.
5) iMovie opens in dock, but never actually allows access. Mostof the menu items remain grayed out.
6) iPhoto never even opens. It claims to be damaged orincomplete and crashes. I had never noticed as I use Aperturemost of the time. Speaking of that though, I have some sort ofbroken libraries issue. Browsing in Aperture I can seeeverything. But I have seen an odd "libraries missing"when trying to add pictures from outside of Aperture. I can'tremember where I was doing that, most likely Mail. In fact inthe Applications folder it is crossed out like you see sometimesafter an update before a reboot.
Mailamazingly is working fine with the bounce option back. I dohave issues with it sending emails from the wrong gmail account attimes (I have three setup in it), but I think that is just me... Garage Band also seems to be working fine.
Ithink that covers it all. It seems like some sort of library orapplication support database got damaged? I have triedrepairing them from the Software reinstall DVD (I have both OE discsstill).

James Somners wrote:
iPhoto now opens and claims my library was edited with a newer version. "Do you want to make a new library or quit?" I do not remember upgrading iPhoto, I only used it for the first week or so,
Did you ever open the iPhoto library with iPhoto on Lion? That's what it sounds like.
iWeb is 3.0.4 (601)
That's the most up-to-date version, and runs on either Lion (with a few quirks), or Snow Leopard.
iDvd won't stay open long enough to check.
Select and right-click it and choose Get Info.
I don't use it anymore, but 7.1.2 opens on Lion and Snow Leopard for me.
iMovie is 9.0.4 (1634) and says "iMovie '11"
I never upgraded from 8.0.6, and don't use it anyway, but that should work.
GarageBand is 6.0.4 (427.84) and also says "GarageBand '11"
Also never updated from 5.1, but that should work.
And sure enough in the themes folder for iDvd, I see one for iDvd6, and one for iDvd7. Sooo um what is the best course to fix this? Reinstall iLife '11? Or reinstall the older stuff via my disc again?
I'm not sure that's a problem. It may be so you can use the old themes with the new version. You might want to check that in the iDVD forum at https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/idvd
I do find both of those in my /Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes folder (and a Tutorial folder).
In my ~/Library/Application Support/iDVD/Installed Themes folder, is only iDVD 6
I suspect that's correct, the difference being the names Themes vs. Installed Themes.
It doesn't sound like preference file problems, but have you deleted the appropriate ones (without the app being open)?
What messages do you get in your system.log when you try to open these apps?
Otherwise, I'm about out of ideas here. I can't imagine what's going on -- it sure looks like you have the right versions of these, at least.

Downgrading from Lion 10.7.4

I have had a lot of problems with Lion 10.7.4 on my iMac late 2006 version,the most annoying of which has been the fact that this version of the software took away my display options.
As no one has been able to offer any work arounds (uncluding Apple Support) I think that the only way round this problem will be to return 10 Lion 10.7.3, which behaved oerfectly for me. - Mountain ion will NOT support my iMac.
How can I achieve this downgrade with the least problems?

Don't have anything ear;ier in Lion than 10.7.3 upgrade. The only dvd I have is Snow Leopard
And that is the real problem I suppose. The app store will let me downoad as many copies of 10.7.4 as I want , ut will not allow me to download anything earlier.

Downgraded from Lion

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