How to remove lion

Hi just to add myself to the growing number of not so happy people who have upgraded or should i say stepped back in time with os lion. wont bother listing all the probs too many. and i have wasted too much of my time trying to resolve the unresolvable basically the reason why i moved from microsoft to mac was because of crap systems. im afraid lion falls into this catagory less than six months ago i took the leap to mac and was blown away by everything in a good way but since downloading lion dark days are back. long hours waiting for downloads that took mere minutes yesterday take forever today and when its finished bingo the mac tells me i have no memory left and cant open the file and off it pops to crash yet again. ( i have over 800GB spare ) also when i go to apps store to write a review it tells me i cant because i havent purchased it strange but hey not surprised really. anyway thats my little rant anybody tell me how to uninstall lion and go back to snowleopard many thanks

cheesedoff from uk, two pieces of sincere advice:
1. Don't upgrade to Lion.
2. Don't come to these discussions looking for help unless you're a programmer. The Dilberts here delight in abusing Apple customers.
Have at it you Dilberts!

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How do I remove Lion and go back to Snow Leopard OS?

How do I remove Lion and go back to Snow Leopard?

If you have the white upgrade disk (originally, you had Leopard and bought SL later), easy. I'm not sure if you have the grey disks (you bought the machine with SL).
If you have the white disk, the first thing you do is get a USB external HD. Format it to GUID with disk utility.
Insert the white SL disk and restart. Follow the instructions to install SL on the external disk.
Have a look here for a step by step tutorial for setting up the external HD: http://www.maciverse.com/installing-snow-leopard-onto-an-external-hard-drive.htm l
From here on in you have two choices:
1. You can run SL off the external disk and keep Lion and all your files/data on the internal disk.
This is the easiset thing to do. You can open files from your Internal Lion disk by navigating through to it in Finder when you're booted in to SL on your external disk. Practical if you have a desktop machine, maybe not if you have a laptop that you need to carry everywhere (you'd have carry the external HD with you all the time).
Any non-Lion only (i.e., not Safari, Preview, Terminal and Mail Lion upgrades) apps should also run off your Lion disk when you're booted into SL, but if you have any problems, just drag them from the Lion Apps folder to the SL apps folder.
2. Move everything over to the external disk if you plan to install SL back to your internal disk.
Start copying over all your apps and files manually by dragging them from the internal disk Apps and Folders to the external disk Apps and Folders. If you have Time Machine, you can also copy your files by navigating to Time Machine through the Finder rather than trying to use the Time machine interface.
You might spend some days doing this, but it's worth doing it manually. When you're done and sure you have everything, google 'Carbon Copy Cloner'. Download it (its free), and clone your external HD to your internal HD. SL restored!

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HELP! How do I remove Lion and reinstall Snow Leopard & my files BUT I just discovered my Apple Time Capsule which was using Time Machine DIED
I had to go to MacMall and have the Time Capsule data transfered to a new BAK drive($300+$300)
(The Apple Store sent me there as they said they do not do data transfer)
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? ? One Senior advisor said that I will have to drag and drop the data file or files? from the Time Capsule BAK drive back to my iMAC but will that include all the Snow Leopard operating system ?
? ? Another senior advisor said I will have to wipe my hard drive then install Snow Leopard then "drag and drop", ? ??
All my business leases, database, spreadsheets. letters, mail merge files, and so on are not available with Lion -
I AM VERY ANGRY AS I NEVER SAW THAT WRITTEN ANYWHERE !!!
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Your post is confusing to read too.
It sounds like you still have your files on your Mac. Why do you want to back track to Snow Leopard on your Mac? Why can't you read your files from your Mac? If your files are on your Mac, why are you taking them off your broken Time Capsule? You don't have to install Snow Leopard to transfer your files back to your Mac. Maybe step back a bit and explain your situation a little better with details. For instance, what's a BAK drive? Suggest you explain what you are trying to do?
Before you do anything, create a backup of your Mac to another disk drive.. suggest you use Carbon Copy Cloner to make another copy of your Mac.

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I am very disappointed with Lion, since installing no matter what i do my MBA is slow slow to boot.
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Follow Kappy's post:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15764708#15764708

Does anyone know how to remove pop up, malware and virus form OS X 10.9.5, there is a lot of pop up on my mac book air.

Does any one know how to remove pop up and malware. There is a lot of pop up on my mac book air OSX 10.10

Helpful Links Regarding Malware Problems
If you are having an immediate problem with ads popping up see The Safe Mac » Adware Removal Guide and AdwareMedic.
Open Safari, select Preferences from the Safari menu. Click on Extensions icon in the toolbar. Disable all Extensions. If this stops your problem, then re-enable them one by one until the problem returns. Now remove that extension as it is causing the problem.
The following comes from user stevejobsfan0123. I have made minor changes to adapt to this presentation.
Fix Some Browser Pop-ups That Take Over Safari.
Common pop-ups include a message saying the government has seized your computer and you must pay to have it released (often called "Moneypak"), or a phony message saying that your computer has been infected, and you need to call a tech support number (sometimes claiming to be Apple) to get it resolved. First, understand that these pop-ups are not caused by a virus and your computer has not been affected. This "hijack" is limited to your web browser. Also understand that these messages are scams, so do not pay any money, call the listed number, or provide any personal information. This article will outline the solution to dismiss the pop-up.
Quit Safari
Usually, these pop-ups will not go away by either clicking "OK" or "Cancel." Furthermore, several menus in the menu bar may become disabled and show in gray, including the option to quit Safari. You will likely have to force quit Safari. To do this, press Command + option + esc, select Safari, and press Force Quit.
Relaunch Safari
If you relaunch Safari, the page will reopen. To prevent this from happening, hold down the 'Shift' key while opening Safari. This will prevent windows from the last time Safari was running from reopening.
This will not work in all cases. The shift key must be held at the right time, and in some cases, even if done correctly, the window reappears. In these circumstances, after force quitting Safari, turn off Wi-Fi or disconnect Ethernet, depending on how you connect to the Internet. Then relaunch Safari normally. It will try to reload the malicious webpage, but without a connection, it won't be able to. Navigate away from that page by entering a different URL, i.e. www.apple.com, and trying to load it. Now you can reconnect to the Internet, and the page you entered will appear rather than the malicious one.
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
OS X Mavericks- Protect your Mac from malware
About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection Thomas Reed recommends using ClamXAV. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for this recommendation.)
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1. There is no anti-malware software that can detect 100% of the malware out there.
2. There is no anti-malware that can detect everything targeting the Mac.
3. The very best way to prevent the most attacks is for you as the user to be aware that
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How to remove shelf beneath dock?

Under previous OS X releases it was easy to remove the shelf beneath the dock leaving just icons and little white lights under those icons in use. To do that you would:
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Got to:
Macintosh HD
System
Library
Core Services
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Remove these graphics:
frontline.png
scurve-xl.png
scurve-sm.png
scurve-m.png
scurve-l.png
Copy them to another folder
then delete them
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The shelf is one of the most annoying aspects of the desktop. It isn't cute or clever but detracts for the overall look and takes up far too much screen space at the bottom of the page.
Has anyone figured out which images must now be deleted from Mountain Lion to effectively remove the dock shelf?

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Does a beautiful job. Removes the shelf entirely.
You may wonder why I dislike the shelf so much. I run my Mac Pro using two 30" Cinema Displays. That's 5 feet of display. When the shelf is displayed I can't figure out what apps are running because the little white light beneath them is now so close in color to the shelf itself. AND, the shelf simply takes up too much screen space, is distracting and very annoying. Remove it and all you see are your favorite or most used Dock app icons and if any are in use there is just a little bright light shining beneath them.
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Apple should give the user the option of many screen features including the ability to remove the shelf.
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If you want to divide the applications in your Dock into groups, the best way is to add spacers. A common method is to create "fake" applications with an invisible icon to fill the space, but that is a bit inelegant. A much better way, available in Leopard, is to use a Terminal Command. Each time you run the command it inserts a blank "space" into your Dock, which you can then drag around to where you like.
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If you want to remove a spacer, treat it like any other icon in the Dock. Either drag it off and let go to get a nice puff of smoke, or right-click on it and choose "Remove from Dock". And, of course, you can drag spacers throughout the Dock line to separate groups of apps.
Add a Recent Applications Stack
You can add a Recent Applications stack to the Dock. To do so, open Terminal and type this command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
After that, type killall Dock in the Terminal to restart the Dock and see your new folder. This is a great little Dock icon for using an app you used recently but is not generally held in your Dock.
Enjoy!

How to remove xcode 4.1 and then install xcode 3.2.6?

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Is there a virus remover for macs?

Not really needed, but see:
Helpful Links Regarding Flashback Trojan and Virus Protection
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A link to a great User Tip about the trojan: Flashback Trojan User Tip.
To check for the trojan: Anti Flashback Trojan 2.0.4.
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Hello how to remove Ads by CouponDropDown on safari with mavericks like extensions remains empty thank you

hello
how to remove Ads by CouponDropDown on safari with mavericks like extensions remains empty
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Since I do not use Safari, I had no idea that was an extension, but that person should not be calling that a virus as that is a bit over the top; besides, I have extensions turned on precisely because I want Adblock and WOT to run.
If that is an extension, then it was installed and can be uninstalled which would appear to be a good way to handle it.
@bragon18:
I'm on my Mountain Lion machine and I do have extensions showing on the left:
(can't check on my Mavericks machine at the moment).

Is it possible to reinstall Snow Leopard, removing Lion, without reformatting the hard drive or losing data?

Since I've installed Lion on my early 2009 model iMac, it runs really slow and sometimes is unresponsive. I'm thinking of reinstalling Snow Leopard, removing Lion, but want to know if anyone has done this and experienced any problems or data loss.

samberl wrote:
Reinstalling your OSX is a very simple exercise. I just would not do it from a TM backup.
He already has Time Machine backups.
Reformat, reinstall OSX Snow Leopard and then restore your applications, settings and user directories
You can do most of that, but "complex" 3rd-party applications (typically, ones that came with their own installers) must be reinstalled from the original discs. See Transferring Applications for details.
And don't restore the default Apple apps -- most (or all) of the Lion versions won't work on Snow Leopard.
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In addition, there will be problems with some Snow Leopard apps that won't work with the different file/folder structure used on Lion. Mail is one, for sure.
Much faster than TM machine,
Should take about the same time as from a clone.
you should be up and running in an hour or two.
Depending on how much there is, and especially how many complex apps, that may be rather optimistic.
Save yourself a bundle by not buying a new iMac.
Absolutely (although that didn't seem serious).

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