Going back to Snow Leopard

I'm very disapointed with Lion right now. SInce I've downloaded it, my computer is running slower, I've lost programs and files. It has been a pain. I've gone in and fixed/repaired files to help make it faster, but it's slowing down again. I've had to run the applications bundle install to get iphoto back, but some photos were gone. I back up to a external drive using time machine, but I am wanting to revert back to snow leopard. How do I go about doing this? I want to do this right, because I do not want to lose all of my stuff. First, with my external hard drive I have everything saved in a Mac OS (journaled) format. Is that the right way things should be saved and is that the correct way to back up the macbook? Secondly, what would I need to do to revert it back and ensure that I don't lose all of my files, music, photos, etc.? Lastly, if Lion gets fixed up by apple, will I be able to re download it or would I have to purchase the software again? I do not know how to fix up Lion to make it work better, so I am thinking that reverting back may be the best option for the time being.
I appreciate any help and please, make it simple. I get lost with some of the computer technical terms. :/

See Kappy's going back to SL from Lion guide.

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I recently upgraded to Lion, and immediately started having consistent problems with Open Office 12 (would hang, and need a Force quit to recover). Has anybody else seen these problems? Any solutions other than going back to Snow Leopard? (I did).

I recently upgraded to Lion, and immediately started having consistent problems with Open Office 12 (would hang, and need a Force quit to recover). Has anybody else seen these problems? Any solutions other than going back to Snow Leopard? (I did). But I'd like to use iCloud with iPad.

Hi Pete. The repair of disk permissions can help resolve any application crashing or misbehaving.
As for Lion and the two camps, I think that is a reasonable observation. In my office we have about a dozen Mac's and about one third of those Mac's had problems after updating from 10.6 to 10.7. The main problem for these Mac's was a loss of wifi stability. But for the other two-thirds, Lion was a smooth transition.
Personally, my Lion experience was fine. But I did get a new i7 MacBook Pro with Lion already installed and only had to migrate my user data from a 10.6.8 TM backup.
So I think that is a key for Lion's operational success. A clean install of Lion on a new Mac would not cause too many operational issues. But an installation, or more correctly, an update to Lion from SL increased the chances of failure for some users - especially when old software & plugins resided on the Mac. And I would say that they were the people that you saw at the Apple store.
As for the "latest release of Lion fixed my problems" statement, my experience with these and other forums is that people mostly only go there to complain about the problems they are having. If they are having no problems then they either keep it to themselves or they try to help the users who are experiencing trouble...

After update to Lion and going back to snow leopard, iWeb doesn't recognize my website

I upgraded to Lion thinking my files were backed up on MobileMe as set up. After finding out most of my favorite programs had no upgrade to Lion, I had to erase my hard disk and re-install Snow Leopard. Some of my programs don't work now and iWeb won't recognize my personal website, so I can't update it. What and how do I correct this issue? I also can't get my printers working in spite of numerous re-installs of their software and internet updates. HELP!

The critifcal file to have for iWeb to work on your websites is named Domain.sites2 and is located in your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder.
If you don't have a backup copy of that file you will have to rebuild your sites from scratch. Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the creation of the new site.
OT

Going back to Snow Leopard from Lion

I Just bought a Refurbished Macbook from Apple(2.4GHz Core 2 Duo). It came with Lion loaded on it, but I want to downgrade it to Snow Leopard so I can run Quickbooks and Office '04, but It won't let me restart to my Leopard or Snow Leopard disc. Is it possible to drop it down to a previous OS or is this not allowed?
I've erased hard drives and reinstalled OS's in the past, so I'm familier with the process, but it's not letting me. Does anyone know if this is possible?

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.
Note that this will only work on computer models that do not require Lion (Lion did not come pre-installed when new) and requires a version of Snow Leopard compatible with the model, e.g., you cannot install 10.6.3 on a model that requires 10.6.4.

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.

I think I would like to go back to Snow Leopard is that possable ??

I am have some problems with Lion and im thinking of going back to Snow Leopard for a while untill its sorted out is that posable ??

Sure....erase and reformat the HD then reinstall Snow Leopard and then restore from your backup. However Lion is pretty stable why not work out your problems before giving up after 2 days.

Can i do a time machine back to snow leopard from Lion?

After hearing lots of good and bad about Lion, i've re-considered paying the 29 and doing an upgrade. Mostly because of the full screen two finger swipe feature.
would you agree that feature alone is worth the upgrade?
if i didn't like it, could i do a time machine back to snow leopard no problem? I don't have any installation discs.
Thanks for your feedback.

Lion has lots of good features, but the trouble is it has lost nice features too. You can ONLY tell what you think after a week or so of use.
"Going Back To Snow Leopard" is a LOT of work - you will have to use the DVD install disk that came with your computer to erase Lion and install SL from scratch. That means saving your valuables in SL first (Time Machine or some other external drive export like Carbon Copy Cloner). It takes hours of your day, but can be done.
Lion needs a lot of care (adjustments) to make it behave the way you like it - it is REALLY different at first, but there are ways to make it behave a LOT more like SL by tweaking options in System Preferences and so on. It also takes hours to index - leave your machine on for 24 hours after you first install Lion - it will speed up a lot quicker that way.

How do I uninstall Snow Leopard Server, so that I can revert back to Snow Leopard?

I was experimenting with the Snow Leopard Server DVD on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. I started the installation process, expecting that it would not install on the Startup Disk, as I had not booted from the DVD.
To my surprise it installed!
How do I "uninstall" or revert back to Snow Leopard, without have to take such drastic steps that I would lose all of my Snow Leopard System folder contents (such as doing a wipe and starting over with a fresh Snow Leopard install)? Thank you.

I assume by "back up your data" you mean a Time Machine backup?
Preferably, yes.
I have a BootCamp partition to run Windows; does Time Machine back that up, too?
No, but it won't be affected unless something goes wrong. You still need to back it up, of course, just like all other data.

How do i backoff lion and go back to snow leopard

Too many issues with too much time for system to come up, time capsule, Adobe CS does not work, Bento files dont work, just want to go back to Snow Leopard...what are the steps?

You'll want to backup first (obviously)!!!!!!!!
But
1) boot from a Snow Leopard Disk (or your computer's original system disks if your machine came with 10.6) by EITHER holding down the OPTION key or the C key when rebooting (the compute rgoes 'bong' and then press the key immediately)
2) Choose your language
3) When you choose the disk on which to install Snow Leopard, it should yell at you (which is good).
(I don't have the images in front of my, so I apologize if the instructions aren't exact)
4) Chose ARCHIVE & INSTALL if you can.
*Archive & install, is a wonderful feature removed after Snow Leopard where you can reinstall the OS w/o overwriting the old, or reformatting the drive.
5) DO the standard install, or click 'advanced' and unselect that which you don't need (like Chinese for example, or printer drivers for brands you don't have).
6) Once the install is done, you'll want to immediately run the MAc Updater and get up to 10.6.8, the current rev of Snow Leopard.
However, should the disk not allow you to 'archive and install'; you'll need to either choose 'erase and install'; or if THAT isn't an option;
go into the menus, and to DISK UTILITY
Choose your hard drive, and erase it.
Quit Disk Utility, and repeat the above steps to install a clean version of Snow Leopard.
But please, BACK UP FIRST.
Use Super-duper or Carbon Copy Cloner (both free, both good) to clone your drive as it is presently; I am not sure if a 10.7 Time MAchine will be readible from a 10.6 migration assistant.
And next time, read before you update your OS; we've known for MONTHS that CS, CS2 won't work as they are PPC applications. CS3+ work just fine for the most part- there are some subroutines in Photoshop that evidently are still PPC applications.
I don't allow my users to upgrade to a new OS until the x.x.2 release; and in the case of Lion- I have been going over their system apps to make sure they don't use PPC apps anymore.

How can I unistall Lion and go back to Snow Leopard?

I upgraded to Lion (stupidly and blindly) and now most of my programs are not compatible. What is the process to go back to Snow Leopard?

Given the lack of response to this particular discussion, and given all the various and sundry ideas on this topic, I have had a panic-stricken 48 or so hours since I asked my question. Here's what finally worked to get me back to normal:
1. First, I gritted my teeth and erased my hard drive, hoping and praying I'd be able to restore from Time Machine. I'd been backing up for quite some time, but never needed it before. HOWEVER:
Lion evidently left little gremlins all over my hard drive, because I simply could not get my hard drive restored properly, not from the Time Machine restore function on the SL disk NOR from a manual "Star Wars" pick and choose with my Time Machine. Therefore (and this is important):
I zeroed out my hard drive completely, after trying for an entire day to get things back to normal. What you have to do is start up from the Snow Leopard disk, and do a COMPLETE erase, by which I mean that when you use DU to erase your hard drive, you go into the "security" panel on th DU screen and do a 7-pass zero-initialization of your hard drive, i.e., write zeros all over everything on your hard drive seven times, leaving it truly free of that yucky Lion. THEN I reinstalled Snow Leopard, ran Software Update several times until it had updated everything it wanted to ad nauseum, and THEN was able to get Time Machine to work properly and bit by bit restored everything I wanted to restore. I am appalled at the lack of accurate documentation that comes with Time Machine, frankly. Anyway, when you get ready to restore your software AFTER you put the Snow Leopard system back on your hard drive and update it, you have to go back to a backup from BEFORE you installed Lion, though: this is important. Don't try to put anything associated with Lion back on your hard drive. For me, that backup was done was last Friday. It took ages, but....my hard drive is now purring like a kitten, and I have Snow Leopard and all my old software back. It was a mess, but it seems to be over. I learned from this disaster how important it is to completely wipe your hard drive clean before trying to reinstall an older operating system. As far as Lion goes, I will be extremely careful before I assume any new upgrade is a good upgrade. It isn't. I LIKE my elderly Adobe programs and my kid likes her games that need Rosetta, as does Word 2004. My Mac is much happier with Snow Leopard. For now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

How can I delete Mt. lion and go back to Snow Leopard?

I just installed Mt. lion and learned that I can no longer use Microsoft products (Excel and Word). These are MUST apps. How do I go back to Snow Leopard?

The reason Office will not run is because you are trying to run Office 2004 which is coded for the PowerPC that is no longer supported. If that is your only problem with Mountain Lion then I would suggest you upgrade Office rather then downgrade the operating system.
If you still wish to downgrade, you can't install an older version of OS X on a disk with a newer version installed. So the first step is that the disk must first be erased. That means that everythinbg will be removed from the disk. So you must backup anything you want first. It also means that you are going to have install all of your applications again which are not part of the operating system.
There are free version of Office available such as OpenOffice and NeoOffice, you don't want to pay Microsoft for their upgrade.
Allan

How do I go from Mavericks back to Snow Leopard

I updated my late 2009 MacBook Pro to Mavericks as I thought the system efficiency upgrades the new OS tauted would be good, but alas my computer is super slow for ALL functions. I won't give details, because now after the fact, I'm learning others have had this problems. I don't have time to hope it will improve, I want to go straight back to Snow Leopard and will wait for Mavericks to have more updates, improvements and better reviews on speed.
Technical question on how to go back/ reinstall Snow Leopard?
First my stats:
I have 2 partitions on my MacBook Pro: 1. my usual use 400gb partition, which was on snow leopard and went up to Mavericks, and 2. 100gb "test" partition running 10.6.8.
I have an external backup hard drive with Time Machine backup of the 400GB partition.
There was an apple support article - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14176 - that said to revert to previous OS you simply:
Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
Select “Restore from a Time Machine Backup,” then click Continue.
Is this indeed going to work for me? Or will it delete the 2 partitions?
Or do I pull out the Snow Leopard install disc and launch Disk Utility and erase the partition drive and install snow leopard that way?
Would like some confirmation on the best way to go before proceeding, but hoping to tackle this right away.
Thanks!

Here is teh entrecheck report. Can you advise on any issues or items that defeinitely and easily can be addressed? Is there anything here that could be causing the tremendously slow, nearly not function computer with Mavericks (I feel like I'm back in the days of OS9), which was FINE on Snow Leopard?
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,3
          1 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 0 days 0:9:51
Disk Information:
          Hitachi HTS545050B9SA02 disk0 : (500.11 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 397.17 GB (92.91 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
                    Macintosh HD 2 (disk0s4) /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2: 101.94 GB (68.08 GB free)
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-868
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
          ALCOR Generic USB Hub
                    HP Deskjet 6940 series
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Launch Daemons:
          [System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
          [System] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
          [System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] openlaunch.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
          Dropbox
Internet Plug-ins:
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 2.4.4.2 3rd-Party support link
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
          Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.0 3rd-Party support link
          googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
          iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
Safari Extensions:
          Evernote Web Clipper: Version: 6.1
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
          CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: Version: 1.0.105 3rd-Party support link
          Picasa: Version: 1.0 3rd-Party support link
          Unity Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 1.6.2 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
          Flip4Mac WMV 3rd-Party support link
          Growl 3rd-Party support link
          handyPrint 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
          /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MERP2.0
                    Microsoft Error Reporting:          Version: 2.2.9 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Ship Asserts:          Version: 1.1.4 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          Solver:          Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Add-Ins/Solver.app
          Audacity:          Version: 2.0.5.0 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Audacity/Audacity.app
          /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office
                    Open XML for Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Office Setup Assistant:          Version: 14.2.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Alerts Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    SyncServicesAgent:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Database Daemon:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Graph:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Database Utility:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Office Reminders:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Upload Center:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    My Day:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Chart Converter:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Clip Gallery:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
          /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
                    Microsoft PowerPoint:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Excel:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Outlook:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Word:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    Microsoft Document Connection:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
          Microsoft Language Register:          Version: 14.3.9 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
                    /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Additional Tools/Microsoft Language Register/Microsoft Language Register.app
          Microsoft AutoUpdate:          Version: 2.3.6 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
                    /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app
          Smilebox:          Version: 1.0.0.21770 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          Picasa:          Version: 3.9.16 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
          MultiMode Cocoa:          Version: 6.3.1 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Auto backup: YES
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
               4%          OverDrive Media Console
               3%          WindowServer
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          mds_stores
               1%          mds
Top Processes by Memory:
          336 MB          mds_stores
          143 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          123 MB          Dropbox
          106 MB          com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
          70 MB          Safari
Virtual Memory Information:
          1.17 GB          Free RAM
          1.47 GB          Active RAM
          619 MB          Inactive RAM
          520 MB          Wired RAM
          371 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs
One other issue that concerns me. I launched Activity Monitor because the computer was so slow and it shows the "memory used: 3.99GB" out of "Physical Memory: 4:00GB" seems like it is being used up (though Entrcheck may be giving different information), which doesn't make sense as I wasn't running too many, and not energy/memory hogging programs (i.e. just Mail, Contact, Safari, & OverDrive).
Any thoughts on this?

How to revert back to Snow Leopard from Lion?

Foolishly I just jumped straight in, downloaded Lion and installed it, and well... I really don't like it. It's not a patch on SL.
So I'm trying to work out the best way of reverting back to Snow Leopard.
I have:
My Snow Leopard install disc.
A SuperDuper, bootable backup from 48 hours pre-upgrade.
A Time Machine backup from 48 hours pre-upgrade.
I'm fairly sure that just putting the SL install disc in, isn't going to work.
I think I have a couple of options.
1. Erase the hard drive completely, and then do a fresh SL install, then restore the last TM backup.
2. Boot from the SuperDuper backup, then restore the last TM backup.
I'd prefer option 1, as this gives me a clean install (I hope).
Before I go ahead, can anyone:
a) See any problems with carrying this out, or
b) Suggest a better, safer method?
I'm a bit concerned that SL was an upgrade to an existing OS, rather than a complete OS in itself, so I'm very wary of what might happen if I wipe the drive then put the disc in, hoping it'll give me a nice new version of SL. Might need to go and do a bit more reading up.
Thanks.

For ref.
Dragged and dropped copies of important files (Docs, Pictures, Downloads, Movies etc) to a spare drive.
Printed off any docs that I absolutely could not afford to lose.
Shut down Mac.
Attached USB drive with SuperDuper backup, and powered up drive.
Powered up Mac, and immediately pressed the option key.
From the window that popped up, chose my USB drive as the boot disk and pressed return.
Mac powered up running Snow Leopard from USB drive.
Started Disk Utility, and erased the disk labelled 250.06 GB Fujitsu.... etc In the 'name' field, entered 'Macintosh HD'
Started up SuperDuper! and copied my backup over Macintosh HD.
Incidentally, the first step it took was to erase Macintosh HD anyway, so I could probably have skipped the first erase.
Let SuperDuper! do it's thing for 90 mins.
Once it had completed, closed the machine down (it wouldn't let me eject the USB drive, as presumably it was still using that as the boot disc).
Detached and powered off USB drive.
Pressed Mac power button and crossed fingers...
And goodbye annoying Lion, hello again, good old Snow Leopard!
Didn't even need to restore the last Time Machine backup.
I may take another look at Lion again, further down the road, when hopefully Apple will have realised that OS X and iOS are two completely different animals, and that we don't all want our Macs behaving like our iPads.
For now though, I'm sticking with SL.

Lion painfully slow. How do I go back to Snow Leopard???

I have just "upgrade" to Lion and my Mac is no unusable. It runs at 15-20% of the speed it ran at under Snow Leopard, where it ran perfectly. For instance:
- It takes Word 08 about 7-8 minutes to launch
- It takes Entourage 08 almost as long
- Preview, which used to launch in about a second, now takes 2 minutes
- I was in Firefox and wanted to quit Preview. The process of going to the dock, clicking on Preview, choosing Quit from the menu and having Preview actually quit to 90 seconds.
- When i finished typing the previous sentence, I had to wait about 15 seconds while the typing on the screen caught up.
- in any application, it takes 5-10 seconds for a menu to open after I click on it
- When I double-click on a word it takes 7-9 seconds for the word to highlight
- When I gesture to move a page up it takes 5-8 seconds for the page to begin to move
- When I click on a different place in a document , it take about 5 seconds for the cursor to move
- This message took me about twenty minutes to type
Is it possible for me to go back to Snow Leopard?
Save me! Thank you!
Ian

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.

Back to Snow Leopard -- how?

Having worked with OS X Lion now for about a day, I have to say I'm encountering too many issues. (A selection: Safari won't allow me to start with my Homepage and then have new tabs open with the Same Page for some reason (I'm not sure what exactly the people who review the software are reviewing: don't they see this?); my scanner won't scan to the right destination anymore; the folders in the Finder's sidebar that I've added there myself all have generic icons, which makes it hard for me to find the different folders I have there; apps that have to start up when other apps export files to them, don't -- et cetera. Just really a lot of stuff.) Maybe some of the issues can be fixed, but even then I can't see the appeal of Lion. A thumbs down, I'm afraid to say.
What I'd like to know is: how do I revert back to Snow Leopard as painlessly as possible? I have my stuff backed up, I have Snow Leopard's Install disc right here, I'm all set. What do I do? I want everything to be the way it was yesterday. Maybe I'll look at Lion again later, but not right now.

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.
Disconnect other drives except the sole backup drive.
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 boot disk of ALL DATA.
(warning, everything will be gone and not recovered, OS, programs, files, Windows etc all gone.)
Note: You might want to hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk and use Disk Utility to format the new blank external drive instead of using OS X Lion if that's hosed. Then reboot into Lion and copy files, may be safer that way.
Here we go!
Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP there, don't install OS X yet.
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 drive name as before, and click Erase...
(note: if you want to "scrub" the drive of old files that haven't been overwritten yet, then use the Security Option > Zero Erase, takes a lot longer)
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 recommended.
A lot of people use a Carbon Copy Clone of their boot drive to a new HFS+Journaled external drive (used only for this purpose) 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.

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