How do I upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion? I have installedOS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1

How do I upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion? I have installed OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1
I have another machine that already has Lion on it and I want them both to have the same OS version.

Not the iTunes App Store, but under the Apple
icon at top left>Appstore, likely only 10.8/Mountain Lion will be found, if you don't want that & want Lion, you have to call Apple & get a key for Lion download.
Call Apple Sales...in the US: 1-800-MY-APPLE. Or Support... 1-800-275-2273
Other countries...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
Do make a copy of the Installer before running it, like baltwo points out.

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If i upgrade Snow Leopard to lion, all information will be removed? from hard disk ?, if i upgrade Snow Leopard to lion, all informatio will be removed from hard disk ?

if i upgrade Snow Leopard to lion, all information will be removed? from hard disk ?, if i upgrade Snow Leopard to lion, all informatio will be removed from hard disk ?

John Hammer said it best -- backup first and always. That's why Time Machine and periodic clones of your boot drive to an external disk are so valuable.
That said – the Lion upgrade will retain all user data, files, settings, mail, and preferences. Mind you that a few settings and their location have changed.
Before you actually use Lion, may I recommend spending the first evening looking at every single preference panel in System Preferences. Many of the user interface choices can be reverted back to mimic Snow Leopard if you choose.
Relax and enjoy Lion – it is amazing. Please holler if we can help further.

Can I upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion from a backup system?

Hi,
This is a bit of a roundabout question so let me establish what's going on:
-I just got a new Mac Pro 6-core a few days ago, which arrived with Lion installed.
-I backed up the fresh Lion system to an external drive and downgraded to Snow Leopard to retain compatibility with certain apps.
-I imaginge somewhere down the line I will have to follow suit and upgrade to Lion/Mountain Lion, so....
Is there ANY way I could use my backup of the fresh Lion system to upgrade my Snow Leopard (if need be) to prevent me having to purchase Lion to upgrade Snow Leopard instead?
Thanks for your help!
Andrew

Is there ANY way I could use my backup of the fresh Lion system to upgrade my Snow Leopard (if need be) to prevent me having to purchase Lion to upgrade Snow Leopard instead?
Aside from the fact that it will probably not work, the point is that your license for the preinstalled Lion is only good for one machine. If you want it on any other machine, you will need to buy it. Why don't you just wait until you want to install Mountain Lion - if the terms are the same as they were for Lion, it'll cost you $20 to update all your machines.

Upgrade Snow Leopard to Lion in Canada

Hi There! I would like to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion. My iMac is too old to go to Mountain Lion or Mavericks, but although it's obviously obsolete, I would like to have my computer running the latest software it can... I found a link that took me to a place in the US Apple Store to download a code to get Lion, but it didn't like my Canadian address. Is there a way to get to do this from Canada? Thanks!!
Branden

Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mavericks, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
     Lion System Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
           or Xeon processor
       2. 2GB of memory
       3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
       4. 7GB of available space
       5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
From the list click on the Canadian support site.

How can I virtualize snow leopard in Lion?

I heard there is a way to run snow leopard alongside lion so i can run my powerpc applications

The makers of virtualization software do not support Snow Leopard, only Snow Leopard Server.
But it is possible to bypass this and force an installation of Snow Leopard into a virtual machine on a Lion Mac. I have heard of people who have done this with VirtualBox. It's not the easiest thing to do, but it can be done. You'll have to Google for the methods.
Just make sure you follow all the licensing terms - only install one copy of Snow Leopard in the VM, make sure you have no other copies of Snow Leopard running simultaneously under the same machine, and make sure you have valid licenses for both Snow Leopard and Lion.
Don't worry about the numerous claims that you will undoubtedly hear that "Snow Leopard is not licensed to be run under virtualization under Lion." They are myths.

How to install upgrade snow leopard in macbook pro?

I bought a macbook pro 2011 2.2 ghz quad core i7 and would like to install snow leopard in one partition to run older software. I had the full version of os leopard, but can't install in the new macbook pro to upgrade to snow leopard. I can't upgrade snow leopard in my power G5 either because it needs intel cpu. Is there away to upgrade leopard to snow leopard in macbook pro 2011? I have not bought the snow leopard upgrade yet. Thank for your help.

See the bottom of this user tip to determine if Snow Leopard can be installed on your MacBook Pro:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
If it can, you'll need to find out the version of Snow Leopard installer that was available at the time that machine was released based on the age of the machine.
Snow Leopard releases are here:
10.6.6 on January 6, 2011
10.6.7 on May 4, 2011
10.6.8 on June 23, 2011

How do I upgrade Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion (client)?

I have a Mac Mini Server edition (2010) with Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8) pre-installed. I don't like the interface of Server edition because 1) I don't need the server functions and 2) I prefer client OS's easier (less powerful I know) interface to do sharing, logging in, configuring.... etc.
(I know I should've bought the non-server version with a DVD drive but I can't take it back now.)
My question is, what's the easiest way of changing it to a 'client OS', preferably to the latest Mountain Lion? From forum posts it seems downgrading from 'server' to 'client' will definitely require a fresh install. That's fine. I can move all my personal files to the second HDD in the Mini and do a fresh install of OS on the first HDD.
I can see 'Mountain Lion' upgrade in the App Store, but it doesn't say if it's server or client. I am assuming it's a server upgrade?? What will happen if I purchase it for £13.99 in App Store? Or is there an alternative way?
I have a USB Apple optical drive. I have a USB thumbdrive too for storing the OS image if required. Thank you. Any tips will be appreciated.

Not_So wrote:
I went to the AppStore and as I was running Snow Leopard Server it prompted me to purchase Lion Server which I didn't want.
Luckily, I wasn't asked to purchase the 'Server' when I upgraded from SLS to Mountain Lion via the AppStore. I think your particular problem was mentioned in some other posts where the upgrade path to Lion became an infinite loop (hmmm... ). But that's all in the past now. Glad it all worked.

Upgrade snow leopard to lion please

Someone PLEASE HELP!!!
Just bought a used macbook. Just gone to upgrade to Mountain lion and it seems my machine wont run it despite being on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I need Icloud and facetime so the best I can do is upgrade to Lion 10.7.
But can I find how or where to do it?
Anyone??

Mountain Lion needs specific 64bit processors with NX capabilities, these are only found in Macs post 2008 and rarely before - .
Intel 64 alone does not help - in Lion this was enough : any Intel Core2Duo - . Also 2GB of memory are needed and even if Lion needs only 1GB I recommend to max out the Ram for either of the Lion's.

ADVANTAGES FOR UPGRADING SNOW LEOPARD MOUNTAIN LION

I have a late 2010 Mac book Pro 13" 2.26 GHz 4 GB and I upgraded to Lion when it came out but I reverted back to Snow Leopard, my main use for my Mac is music I'm using Native Instruments Traktor Pro 2 software with the Traktor S4 controller hardware to continue upgrading my Traktor software I need upgrade to Mountain Lion, the Traktor software upgrades are not critical right now. Will there be problems skipping the Lion upgrade, I'm debating if there's any value to upgrade when everything is working fine. There seems to be a divided consensus for the Mountain Lion upgrade.

A simple suggestion, get yourself an external Firewire
HD (USB will be to slow), clone your current SL installation
to it, spend the $19.99 and install on that drive. Use it
for a while and if you are happy, clone the install back to
the internal drive. If not happy, wipe the external drive
and you have an additional backup or data drive (can never
have too many backups).

Upgrade Snow Leopard Mountain Lion, lose iPhoto?

hi People
I recently had to wipe off my Macbook and do a clean install of Mountain Lion. Noticed that it no longer comes with iPhoto.
If I upgrade my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, will I lose my iPhoto (and garage band, iLife stuff etc)??
thanks

Inscapes wrote:
I recently had to wipe off my Macbook and do a clean install of Mountain Lion. Noticed that it no longer comes with iPhoto.
Restoring your Free iLife (iPhoto, iMovie etc)
If I upgrade my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, will I lose my iPhoto (and garage band, iLife stuff etc)??
Not if you upgrade alone, if you wipe and install/upgrade then yes.

Upgraded Snow Leopard to Lion, iTunes downgraded to 10.3.1.

I installed Lion today over Snow Leopard, and now when I try to start up iTunes I get this error message:
The file “iTunes Library.itl” cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. Would you like to download iTunes now?
I click on Download iTunes, and Software Update starts up and tells me that all the software is up to date.
iTunes in the Applications folder is at version 10.3.1. Before the upgrade to Lion it was 10.5.3.
Time Machine can't restore the newer version of iTunes because "“iTunes” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by Mac OS X."

The current version of iTunes is 10.6.3, not 10.5.3.
You can download it from Apple's web site: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426
The latest version of Lion is 10.7.4.
Update your information, you list 10.6.2 as your current OSX version.

How can I reinstall snow leopard over Lion OS

Ever since I installed Lion OS, my Imac has been absolutely uncontrollable. Programs opening upon start up that shouldn't open, lock ups, freezing system. How can I uninstall Lion and reinstall my Snow Leopard?

You have to quit, not just closing open documents, the programs when you shutdown or they will Resume, by default, when you startup.
The feature can be disabled here by unchecking:
And uncheck when shutting down:

How to I run Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion and Windows 8 on my new iMac

I just bought a new iMac. My goal is to set up 3 different partions to run 3 different operating systems (Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, and Windows 8). The reason for this post is because when I attempted to do this same thing on my old iMac ( except I was running Lion instead of Mountain Lion) I was able to create a partion that would run Snow Leopard (so I could run Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 on a more stable platform), however I totally "hosed" my old Bootcamp partition running Windows XP. The iMac won't even bootup in Bootcamp anymore. It is just a black screen and it says something about it not being a bootable drive and to insert a bootable disc.
So I need to know the best way to do this, and I want to avoid having the same problems with my new iMac that I had on my old one, especially since I have a freelance job starting next week and my client is sending me licences for software that I will need to run on Windows 8.
Thank you in advance

Use the Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 8 and a product such as VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, or Parallels Desktop to run Snow Leopard Server in emulation. That iMac model isn't capable of being booted into Snow Leopard.
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Upgrade from snow leopard to lion 10.7.2

Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can help me at all. We currently have three MAC computers in our office, the newest one is running on version 10.6.8 and the other two are 10.5.8. I want to upgrade all of them to the new Lion 10.7.2 so we can have the new server and access all the features that goes with it. I understand that you cannot just do an upgrade from leopard to lion, you have to buy all of the upgrades. Is this correct? Also, do I need to buy all the upgrades for all of the MACS or can I just buy one version of each? Would it be a version of snow leopard, then Lion, the Lion 10.7.2 ?
Hope this makes sense, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks again,
Andrew

argo10 wrote:
We currently have three MAC computers in our office, the newest one is running on version 10.6.8 and the other two are 10.5.8. I want to upgrade all of them to the new Lion 10.7.2
First off you should consider the risks of upgrading to 10.7
1: 10.7 runs poorly or slowly on most older Intel hardware (certainly machines old encough to run 10.5 qualify)
Lion has been tested and it's a hair slower than Snow Leopard.
2: Lion machines also has to be 64 bit Intel processors, not the 32bit Intel Core Duo's. No PowerPC machines.
3: 2GB of RAM is required, but people report 4GB is better.
4: 10.7 will not run a LOT of your 10.5 and 10.6 software, and a lot haven't been upgraded/updated to work with 10.7. This also includes drivers for scanners and printers that some might be a bit older.
You can check this compatibility database
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Snow Leopard runs everything from 10.5 and 10.6 because of Rosetta. So all your software should work, perhaps with a minor update each.
5: OS Lion introduces some radical changes in the User Interface that can disrupt your workflow and sanity.
My 20 plus Apple vet/production manager opinion is this, upgrade the 10.5 machines to 10.6.8 and leave things alone.
When you buy new hardware, it will come with 10.7 and then you buy new software to go with it and gradually ease into it, sort of like getting a enema, insert gently.
If you go all radical and change all the machines, your going to be in for quite a bit of pain, not only on the machines, but from the users using them, believe me!
I understand that you cannot just do an upgrade from leopard to lion, you have to buy all of the upgrades. Is this correct? Also, do I need to buy all the upgrades for all of the MACS or can I just buy one version of each? Would it be a version of snow leopard, then Lion, the Lion 10.7.2 ?
You can buy this ($69) and backup, wipe and install. Need one for each machine on 10.5. and you should have one for the 10.6 machine too, but you can download Lion $29 from the 10.6.8 AppStore instead, no USB copy.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A
Snow Leopard $29 install/upgrade disks are here
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A
Again, I suggest you just upgrade the 10.5 Intel machines to 10.6, it's less expensive, it's stable and it works faster than 10.5 or 10.7 in tests.
Save Lion for new hardware and software upgrades when they arrive.

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