Has anyone dropped mountain lion and returned to lion?, has anyone dropped mountain lion and returned to lion?
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE SINCE DOWNLOADING MOUNTAIN LION.
left me with a mountain to climb to decide if i should trash this best of apple.
i cannot login with keyboard, have to restart and get on with auto login after restart. from sleep cannot login except sporadically when a pop up appears---that has been unpredictable.
senior advisor tried to help, we thought we had it under control--now most apps have some sort of glitch or non-function.
help---this is the first real apple problem for me in 15 years
If I can say, turning back when facing issue isn't the right way to go foward. I would suggest to solve what went wrong instead of going back to Lion. This will be a more fun/permanent way to go.
If your issue is generalized to many apps, I would also suggest that it could be more time efficient at this point to redo a clean install of ML instead of trying to point the issue and solve it. Keep in mind that most people doesn't have issue upgrading, therefore you should be able too.
First question, do you have a TM backup? If yes, I would perform a clean install and bring your stuff back from your backup.
There are different way to do a clean install like in old times; if you no longer and the downloaded MT install file, you can redownload it and follow the step illustrated here (http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_ins tall_drive.html) in order to make yourself a bootable drive to erase your HD and perform a fresh install of ML. Then you will be able to bring back your data from your TM. The only painfull extra step will be to reinstall your third party softwares.
I forgot the link, here it is: http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_ins tall_drive.html
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And you would be right.
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