I dumbed down to 10.6.8 from 10.7.3...

I dumbed down to 10.6.8 from 10.7.3 after my grey screen of death appeared. now all my programs (mac) are 10.7 and won't open in 10.6.8. Also I cannot update to mountain lion because the app store nor itunes will not work with 10.6.8 because I am getting an error message that this version will not work with the current OS - check with the developers.
I just want to upgrade and replace everything but I can't! Help! Thanks.

Did you erase the drive before you tried reinstalling 10.6.8? Don't know how else you went from Lion to SL without doing that but you say all your Programs are for 10.7 which would lead me to think you reinstalled SL over the top of Lion.
If that is what you did you are lucky the computer even starts.
Boot from the SL install DVD, open Disk Utility and erase the Macintoch HD. Then reinstall SL. Then get out the Applications DVD that came with your system and reinstall the Mac Apps that are on that DVD.
Update whatever version of SL you installed to 10.6.8 with the Combo Update and you will have a working Mac again.

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Thanks so much for the offer of help. I'm using 10.9.2 OSX. I have Numbers 2.3 (554). I tried the new version but it was "dumbed down" so much (to make it usable on multiple platforms) that it was of no use on iMac. I still can't get my contacts to open

Thanks so much for the offer of help. I'm using 10.9.2 OSX. I have Numbers 2.3 (554). I tried the new version but it was "dumbed down" so much (to make it usable on multiple platforms) that it was of no use on iMac.
I still can't get my contacts to open in Numbers like they used to do. I have a group of five addresses in a test folder in Mail called "untitled group." But no amount of pasting, dragging, etc can get them to open up in Numbers. My "real" folder has almost 100 addresses so I can't do it one by one.
Thoughts?
Thanks again.
Bob

Bob,
You can place contacts in a table In Numbers by the following methods:
Numbers 2.3:
drag from contacts
Numbers 3.2
copy from contacts, then paste into Numbers
In both cases you need to open System preferences, then select the "Security & Privacy panel and allow Numbers aaccess your contacts information.

IMovie '13 "dumbed down" compared to iMovie '11

It appears that Apple has decided to make the Mac versions of iLife and iWorks apps identical to the IOS versions on the iPad. This required a "dumbing down" of the Mac versions which they did in the newly released versions. I see this in iMovie '13 which among other missing old features is the ability to group Projects into folders (like Family, Vacations, etc.) which is extremely important when you have a few dozen or more projects.
In another forum, it is clear they did the same thing with iWorks:
As a dedicated user of the iWork applications I looked forward to seeing what new features Apple was going to support. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am - all three represent regressions IMHO. Read through the discussion about Pages, Keynote and Numbers, and you will see right away that people are deeply puzzled with the features that have vanished. It sure seems in an effort to make the iWork apps more like their iOS cousins that Apple has dumbed down and severely limited the OS X versions.
From missing vertical rulers and loss of merge fields in Pages to the loss of a number of transitions and actions in Keynote the lists go on and on. I am certainly glad that installing the new apps does not remove the old - as I am really forced to stay with the older versions to keep the level of features I have been used to. Those of you who value the advanced features of the previous version of iWork *please* avoid dumping the old apps until you *really* get a chance to see what isn't there in the new versions. Lots of flash and less substance!

Just tried to do my first project with the new version after upgrading from iMovie '09.
Video import.. no option to move files into the Event.. thats annoying.
Screen layout is designed to take up the full screen width of my 13" MBP. This causes issues with my preferred use of the dock on the right side as opposed to the bottom. I either have to make the dock auto-hide or go to full screen when using it. The shot below shows the settings button being clipped out by the dock.
You can make that window bigger but not reduce it or change the relative size of the other sections to allow it fit into the width I'm giving. Its not a maximizse/restore issue at hand here.
Then onto transitions. I don't use themes as such but when I would edit video, I'd go to the Theme selection, select none but select a default transition of wipe left (ala star Wars). Then I'd just add title screens and start assembling the timeline with the same transition being automatically inserted for me.
That now no longer works. I can go to Movie Properies (⌘-J), select settings and then check auto-content. But it adds a default disolve and does not let me select the transition I'd prefer.
Whats worse, I can change transitions individually, but not if I select the whole lot. And to add to this insult, the visual representation of the transition icon remains the same as opposed to changing to reflect the style of transition you selected.
They switched out a visually intuitive application with a more simplified version that for me is just full of compromises. For now I'll have to stick with the old version.

JDS - Dumbed down and dumber

Re: JDS on Solaris 10
Summary: Dumbed down does not mean easier.
I don't think I have ever, in 15 years as a Sun customer,
hated anything as intensely as I hate the Java desktop!
Hate it, hate it hate it hate it!
1) Launch menu - cryptic names for things eg. 'Web Browser'
rather than 'Mozilla'. It is a good idea to know the name
of the program you are using. Are people too stupid to deal with
the possibilty that there might be more than one
type of browser, or file viewer, or word processor etc?
Call programs by their names, and organize them into tree-structured
hierarchical menus, with help tips to elaborate on what they
are. Also, what if we have several versions of the same
program on the system?
2) Nautilus - Defaults to 'Documents' directory. Stupid, retarded, one
of the most idiotic Windows concepts ever to infect Unix.
Tells user that they
should dump all their files in a 'Documents' folder. What they
should do is to organize their files by topic in a tree-structured
directory, starting with the Home directory. There is no
way to disable this "feature".
One other thing - why can't Nautilus have an option
such that if there isn't an action associated with
a file, you can have it default to open in a text
editor? The CDE file manager does this easily enough.
3)gnome terminal - Should default to 'Backspace' and 'Delete' as
delete characters, not some silly control character.
4) Evolution - Not well integrated into user's account.
     - Can't drag messages into Nautilus
     - Can't drag messages into Local folders higher than 'Mail'
     eg. some subdirectory not in within Mail
     - can't save just the text part of the message
     - can't open saved mail files except in Mail directory
The CDE mailer does all of these things. It appears that
progress means "loss of functionality".
5) Launch menu - pretty sparse, with respect to applications.
User has no way to add menus and submenus to the Launch menu
as they do in GNOME. Only the Applications and Preferences
menus can be changed. Instead of hiding a potential wealth
of applications in an "Applications" menu, the main
categories should be right in the Launch menu. One possible
example of menus appearing in the Launch menu:
Accessories
Documentation
File Browsers
Games
Graphics
Internet
Multimedia
Office
Other
Spreadsheets
System
Word Processing
Isn't that intuitive? You can find programs by what they do.
There are many possible variations, if only the menu could
be customized.
6) Dumbing down of StarOffice. SO launches with a "Templates and Doucments"
window, that shows the files listed in the most recently-visited
directory, but doesn't give any clue as to which directory
that is (eg. no path. Okay, it tells the name of the current directory,
but without the larger context of the path, that is only partly
useful. What's wrong with the full path? Also, why only show the names in
the menus, and not the dates and sizes of files? That information
can often help indicate contents.
The people who decided these standards should be fired. I'm not
being facetious. I don't want people who think like that
(what, were they hired from Apple?) working for Sun and dumbing
down Sun's products from one generation to the next. If I wanted
a system designed for idiots I'd use Windows-XP. Sun can't
win by being exactly like Microsoft. Sun must offer a DIFFERENT
and BETTER product.

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>wew64 wrote on Sat, 10 September 2005 18:48</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
brian, I >recommend you stick to your Unix command prompt.
>Then when you want something, you'll be stuck in your little home
>directory, and you'll only be able to type commands of programs you
>know.
>Example: if you want a web browser, you'll have to type in mozzilla, or
>konqueror, or firefox, Web browser will not work any more, intuitive
>enough??
>Hows that for simple.
One of the great things about modern Unices is the ability to
quickly switch back and forth between command line and
GUI. However, especially when bringing in new users who
have never used anything but Windows, you need to have a
good GUI.
I routinely introduce students in my university genetics
courses to Unix. We do all of our bioinformatics on
Unix, and the last thing I want to have to do is
to give them an environment that is less powerful than
Windows.
In our research work in genetics and bioinformatics,
again, we need a fully-featured desktop. The command
line is sometimes ideal, but other times more ackward
than the GUI.
>If you don't know how to change/rearrange/organize menu startup
> items, documents, etc... Maybe your just too smart for your own good.
>If you were a Unix/Linux administrator, you would know how to add
>profiles for users, then you could change all those little pee-ons you talk
>about.
In fact, I do know how to change menus in GNOME, which
is no simple task. I do not have root permissions on our
campus system, so changes would have do be done
using vfolders, which as I've pointed out, has many limitations.
As well, I don't relish the mess involved in getting new users
to each fix their menus.
The issue is not that there aren't workarounds, but rather,
that I consider Sun to be the best computing platform on
the planet, which I why I have had Solaris exclusively on
my desktop since 1990. Therefore, a trend toward dumbing
down what has up to now been a great system is very
troubling to me. Sun should be leading the way in providing
power without sacrificing useablilty.
>I also think you should learn more about a product before hackin it like
>that.
I speak from experience using Sunview, Open Windows, CDE,
KDE, Red Hat's GNOME, Java Desktop, not to mention Windows XP
and limited Aqua.
Currently, the only "computer" in my office is a SunRay. I don't
use Windows for anything. Everything from routine office
tasks to DNA sequence analysis to programming
is done on the SunRay.
The convenience of not having to switch back and forth
among several Windows boxes for different things is
priceless.
My comments, then, are from the perspective of someone who routinely
does real-world work in the Unix environment.
>This is just me blabbin away, as I do not like to hear negative comments >about JDS.
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Projector & MacBook Resolutions dumbed down

I'm a teacher, and my school installed ceiling-mounted projectors, with the wiring running into the walls. The projectors have nice resolutions of 1200 x 800 and higher.
Upon plugging in my laptop via a projector cable that connects from the MacBook to the new wall recepticle, the resolution to both the projector and the MacBook is dumbed down to 800 x600, and that is IT! --all higher resolutions dissapear from the display preferences on both computer and projector.
However, I ran a cable directly to the porjector (rather than using the new behind-the-wall install, and all the nice, high resolutions are there.
So, we're all thinking that the wiring job was done poorly.
But, surprise, when a MacBook Pro is plugged into the new wall recepticle, all the high resolutions show up!
We then tried four MacBooks, and all get the dumbed-down 800 x 600.
So, why does the MacBook not handle the new wiring receptacle?

My bigger question is WHY does the MacBook Pro work, and not the MacBook?
But, in looking at what's behind the wall receptacle and plate, they ran some wires into a round multi-pin set-up, and that round-d pion plugs into the normal rectangular projector receptacle we see outside of the wall. So, though the receptacle showing out of the wall is the normal rectangular projector type, behind it is this round multi-pin thing. Weird.
So, I could've understood the idea of a poor wiring job, but whatever they came up with works with MacBook Pros and not MacBooks. (Again, I can run a long normal projector cable up to the projector and all the resolutions work.)

IPhoto 11 'dumbs down' emailing pics - anyone else disappointed?

The one command I used the most in iphoto was to email photos at one of the 4 sizes provided. I did this constantly and was able to title and label photos in my mail before sending. Now, having wasted a lot of money on the upgrade I see I no longer have that choice - it is some pre-decided "enhancement" size that just give a childish preview of pics in a folder.
The whole point of emailing a pic is to give the person emailed an instant look at the photos at the desired size. The untrained simply drag the pic into whatever app they want. Who is going to find the folder, open an app and look at the pics? It is too much work and too complicated for most.
Bad choice apple - a case of an upgrade offering much less that the previous version. I would like my money back. I will certainly give this 'dumbing down' upgrade a miss and advise every mac user I know to beware. Really disappointed, Michael

If you don't like the new ways that iPhoto handles emailing then you can access the old way with a small change in how you work:
1. Drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Mail icon in the Dock.
or
2. Use the Photo browser in Mail - or any Media browser in the entire OS
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
You can then resize the image in the iPhoto Window
Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
Finally, you can make a simple OS Service to to automate the procedure. For more on this have a read of this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2627690&tstart=0
Regards
TD

Bit Rate Dumb Down

For better quality, I was downloading using higher bitrate. Realize now, battery burn on IPOD is too fast. Would like to dumb down from higher Bitrate to 128, without rebuilding Itunes Library. Anyway to convert already downloaded tunes from e.g. 320 to 128?
thanks in advance......

Thanks for all your help, David S, but the point is
that I have tried many different bit rates, from 4.0
to 7.0, and I don't have time to waste all day trying
different bit rates for an 8-minute project.
My main question is: Why would it work fine on all
of my other short projects, including the 8-minute
one, and then when I cut out 20 seconds of that same
project, it starts screwing up!?!
I am going to try trashing my preferences. It is
starting to seem like a corrupt pref file to me.
It turned out to be a corrupt pref file, as I thought. Thanks for your many, many questions, David S.

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Can logic express slow down or change the key from playbacks like the program "Amazing slowdowner"?r

Hello,
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I down loaded the Aperture trial from the internet. I bought the Aperture 3. I put the Apple Product Serial Number in the box. However when I open the Aperture 3 program, it still says Aperture 3 Trial Library. Is this normal?

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Hi TD,
Thank you for the quick reply, very helpful. Now I can sleep in peace and without worry. I had transferred 30.000 pictures and was a little worried.
Kind regards,
Peter.

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