How do I get rid of Mountain Lion?
Okay,
so Mountain Lion is (for me) an unmitigated disaster. I loved my MBA11, best laptop I had ever had - because it was rock solid stable, fast and gave me a whole working day on battery.
updated to Mountain Lion, and I have had three hard lock ups this morning (something I had never experienced on a Mac before) requiring a power off reset, and the battery life is unbelievable.
In the time it has taken me to type this, my battery has dropped by 5%. It has taken around 2 hours to drop to 35% - previously, 2 hours of typical usage would have dropped me to about 60%
I don't see *any* activity in activity monitor to suggest that I am getting indexing or so on.
Add to that, that the nice "time left" indicator has been removed for no apparent reason (unless it's been removed because it would show up just how bad the problem is...).
Basically, it's a busted flush. the only thing I want to do now is to get rid of the piece of trash and get my old laptop back... except with no re-install media, and no optical drive on a MBA anyway... how do I get back?
The problem here is that I have bought into the Apple Hype of "it just works". I would never have simply updated a windows PC without a complete backup first, but my experience with the MBA had been so good that I didn't recognise that this update might completely wreck my laptop...
so I don't have a backup of anything except my own data (which is synced to a cloud provider).
I would happily blow this machine away and lose everything on it, if I could just get rid of this blasted mountain lion "virus".
Similar Messages
-
How to get rid of Mountain Lion and set up Lion again?
Cant set up Lion and get rid of Mountain Lion, some of my programs dont work with ML. Help pleas.
Why not try fixing what you have? First thing to do is identify whether your third-party software is compatible by checking here: App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS.
Now, my preference is to start from scratch meaning erase the drive and reinstall Mountain Lion. That way you start from a stable beginning. Then install third-party software one at a time in order to verify it works properly. I don't know if that's something you are willing to do. So what I suggest you do is just reinstall Mountain Lion without erasing the drive:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. -
Maverick is a mess, well up to MS at its best. i installed it over Mountain Lion on a base Air that initially came with Lion. The worst is when the screen suddenly goes blank. After a few times, i found tha tsimpy pressing the power button brought up the welcome screen which - after the password - took me back to where I was with no loss, bu tthe first time was horrible. Then WORD for MAC started behaving strangely, with normal operations simply not working - shading to copy or cut out, for instance. Click again and again, no shading - then suddenly it workds! Safari has similar issues. So too with other software downladed earlier. simply nothing works as well as all did under Mountain Lion.
So, I want to deep six Maverick and get back to Mountain Lion. I assume that if I use CONTROL R I will simply reload Maverick. Can I download Mountain Lion from the App Store and then ??? All the copying and such - a half day lost. Is there are easier way?
<Edited by Host>It's Command-R, not Control-R. You won't lose your files or settings if you reinstall 10.9 this way. Why don't you give that a go before reverting to 10.8.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13871
Enjoyed the Sarah Palin crack, btw. -
HT1444 How can I get OS X Mountain Lion if I have an iMac Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) ?
How can I get the OS X Mountain Lion if I have an iMac Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) ? Or I need to buy a new computer???
Depending on which model of iMac you have, you may be able to get it by going through Mac OS X 10.6(phone the Apple Store), or you may need to buy a newer computer.
(69288) -
How do I get my mac mountain lion to stop saying, "You shut down your computer because of a problem?
My Mac Mountain Lion desktop computer keeps saying, "You shut down your computer because of a problem." How do I keep this from happening?
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post shutdownStall, spin, or hang reports. -
Is there a way to get rid of Mountain Lion and return to Snow Leopard?
Eversince apple replaced my hard drive due to a recall and I installed mountain lion because it was touted as the greatest, i have been greatly disappointed. My system has slowed to a crawl, and there's just too much going on. I don't see the benefit and feel ripped off.
Is there a way to remove mountain lion and replace with my old system, Snow Leopard?macnally wrote:
Eversince apple replaced my hard drive due to a recall and I installed mountain lion because it was touted as the greatest, i have been greatly disappointed. My system has slowed to a crawl, and there's just too much going on. I don't see the benefit and feel ripped off.
Is there a way to remove mountain lion and replace with my old system, Snow Leopard?
Restore your backup. (The one you made prior to replacing the operating system) -
I have downloaded OS Mountain Lion which was successful but going inot apps it still appears as requiring downloading but when I press to do this i am informed that download has been completed and so to cancel. How or why does this icon remain in the apps purchases and how should i get rid of it?
It stays in your purchased apps list because you bought it from the MAS. The most likely reason it offers to be "downloaded" (it's not that it needs to be downloaded, it is that is can be downloaded) is because you installed the OS X upgrade, which deletes the installer from the HDD. This is normal behavior.
-
Many years ago synced iCal with Microsoft program. Since installing Lion whenever I try to create an event in iCal it flashes up message "Unable to open Microsoft sync services Power PC applications no longer supported." How do I get rid of message?
Lion no longer supports PowerPC apps. If this is Microsoft Office 2008 (Entourage 2008) then you should disable the syncing services. (I don't have Office 2008 installed anymore so I don't know exactly what it's called anymore.) If you have Microsoft Office 2004 or earlier, then it can't be run on Lion at all since Lion removed Rosetta, which is what allowed a PPC app to run on an Intel based Mac.
Also, I believe Microsoft removed sync services from the current Outlook 2011 (which replaces Entourage) so even upgrading to a newer version of Microsoft Office will not get you back that calendar sync feature. Supposedly Microsoft is working on a new syncing system, but I wouldn't hold my breath. -
now I got 2 excel files, which cannot be deleted on my desktop. I can't open them, either. I googled the names of the sheets and found chinese websites I never visited. Are those dialers? How can I get rid of them? system is mac lion (with win 7 parallel)
The people who make that stuff have their own forums you can also search/ask in:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum -
i just loaded the 'lion' now my mail takes a new life....how do i move the reading panel to the bottom / also how do i get rid of the text/content under each mail..two simple things not sure obvious on this version !!!
-
I keep getting message that i cant open application Microsoft Sync Services because PowerPC applications are no longer supported - what is this and how do I get rid of this?
Thanks- so if I remove the old apps that i no longer use then the message will automatically go away?
-
Please can you help - I have recently added an external hard drive to my Macbook so it can be used as a back up and storage to save space on my hard drive. I have deleted videos and photos from my hard drive but they are being replaced with 'backup'
how do i get rid of this ?
thanksWelcome to Apple Support Communities
Time Machine makes local snapshots in all portable Macs with Lion or Mountain Lion. They are made in the internal drive and they are removed when your hard disk gets full, so you don't have to worry about it.
If you want to delete them, turn off Time Machine and turn it on every time you want to make a backup. You can also turn them off manually without having to turn off Time Machine, or you can delete those local snapshots > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html -
I actually have a couple questions.
I bought a used Macbook 2009 unibody that still has snow leopard. It recently has been coming up with a darkened screen telling me to restart.
My first question is how do i get rid of that? Next i don't no the computer password (luckily its not required to get on the computer or applications) is there a way to change it? Can i wipe the hard drive, its full of personal files? lastly if i download mountain lion, will it wipe the hard drive or get rid of microsoft office?
- AdamYou need to contact the vendor to obtain the password as well as the original install disk. There is little you can do without it.
It sounds like you are getting kernel panics. These are usually hardware related, often due to faulty or loose RAM modules.
What is a Kernel Panic?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
and http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892?viewlocale=en_US
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html
More details here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Useful articles on how to avoid and eliminate kernel panics here:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344626-263.html?tag=mfiredir
http://www.macworld.com/article/2027201/how-to-troubleshoot-a-kernel-panic.html# tk.nl_mwhelp -
Pre-owned macbook pro, how do I get rid of app updates for previous users?
I have 2 updates in the app store that are flagged for updating, every time I click update it brings up a user that isn't me and I don't have the password for. How do I get rid of these? and ensure any update (e.g. iphotos is one of them) are for my apple id? Any help welcomed
What you really need to do is wipe the drive completely by repartitioning it as one partition and then reinstall the original version of OS X that came on that Mac when it was shipped from the factory. Otherwise that system will always be tied to the original owner.
How you do that depends on what version of OS X originally came on it when it was new. If Lion or Mountain Lion you use the online Internet recovery system. If it originally came with Snow Leopard then you should of gotten the original system discs that came with every Mac prior to Lion coming out. If you don't have those system discs you can order a replacement set from apple for a small fee. -
How do I get rid of this question mark shown in Launchpad?
This is here after I installed OS X Mountain Lion, among others. What is it, and how do I get rid of it?
That is because all Apps that are in the Applications folder get an Icon in the Launchpad area but as with Lion, and now Mt Lion, once you install the OS from that download, that is placed in the Applications folder, the Installer DELETES those files but it does not remove the Icon from the Launchpad.
Just DRAG it to the Trash can. You may have to hold down the Option or Command key (I forget which or if you even need to) while dragging it to the trash can.
Maybe you are looking for
-
Does anybody know the error code 11 while updating to ios 4.3.3.? thx
does anybody know the error code 11 while updating to ios 4.3.3. on an ipad1? thx
-
My sing keeps freezing and skipping to totally seperate song! why?
i bought a song recently and it stops in the middle and it either goes to the next song or two songs ahead. It works on my siblings ipod's and we use the same computer is there a reason for this and how do i fix it?
-
Purchased music does not appear in library
I just purchased an album but it does not appear in my library. Thinking I screwed something up went back into store to purchase. When I clicked purchase a pop up said you have already purchased this do you want to purchase again, a pop up said you p
-
is there a free trial for iwork? I would like to see how feasible it is before shifting from MS Office which i use presently?
-
HT201272 I bought my iPad in Dubai and it does not have FaceTime can I download it
I bought my iPad in Dubai and it does not have FaceTime can I download it