I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Can I skip Lion and upgrade to Mavericks?

Yes, if your computer is compatible with Mavericks.
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If I have Mac OS X Snow leopard can i get the app store

How Do I get App Store

The App Store application is included in Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later and can be found in the Applications folder. If you have Mac OS X 10.5.8 as your profile indicates, though, you have Leopard, not Snow Leopard, and will need to purchase a retail copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and upgrade your system. Snow Leopard is still available from the Apple Store.
Regards.

I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8; I am trying to install Mac OS X Lion

I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard professional 10.6.8 update
I am trying to install Mac OS X Lion.
I get an error message: other users are logged on.
I have three accounts: William G Cullen; Guest; williamgcullen.
I have tried to delete williamgcullen, but it asks for a password; I have tried every password I know and can't open it. I also did not set up this account.
how do I solve this problem?
[email protected]

Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups. If the lower left, there is a lock icon. Click on it and type in your password to make changes.
Then, select the account you want to remove and press the - symbol.

How can I find out if my mac mini running snow leopard can be upgraded to mountain lion?

I have a mac mini with sufficient ram for the mountain lion OS however, I am unable to determine if the machine was created in early 2009. Is there a way to make sure my machine will take the upgrade without purchasing the operating system first?

Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion
You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard — Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
     Snow Leopard General Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
       2. 1GB of memory
       3. 5GB of available disk space
       4. DVD drive for installation
       5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
           fees may apply.
       6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
           terms apply.
Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, 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.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
     OS X Mountain Lion — System Requirements
       Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 7,1 or later
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) —
             Model Identifier 5,1 or later
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 2,1 or later
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         7. Xserve (Early 2009) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.
Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table — RoaringApps.
     For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion.

HT1338 which upgrade do I need to get I already have Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

which upgrade do I need I already have Mac OS X Snow Leolpard ?

System requirements for OS X Lion
System requirements for OS X Mountain Lion
Application Compatibility for OS X Mountain Lion & Lion

I have 10.6.8, can I skip Lion and go straight to Mountain Lion?

I'm confused because what I read says i can upgrade for $19.99 but isn't Mountain Lion brand new? It's usually way more expensive for a new OS. I did research this on my own but I'm a little confused by what I read.
I bought my imac around '08.
I am so behind so sorry for the stupid questions but I also want to know if apple still sells the os disks or is everything digital download now? I really like having the disk. I just haven't had any problems with my iMac so I haven't been to this board in a long time so I'm kind of behind on everything.

Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion were all released at $19.99
Yes you can skip Lion and go to Mountain Lion providing your Mac meets the spec's.
see > Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - Read the technical specifications.
Althought 2 GB of RAM is the Minimun Requirement, you will be much happier with 4GB or whatever the maximum RAM your iMac can take.
see > iMac: How to remove or install memory
For recomended RAM suppliers, go to either Crucial or OWC (eshop.macsales)

I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.7 do I have to go to Snow Leopard before going to Lion?

If I'm not running on Mac OS X 10.6.7 , do I have to purchase and install Snow Leopard first before I can install Lion?

You need to have Snow Leopard, but I think 10.6.7 is Snow Leopard. You should run software update before downloading Lion (I think that will take you to 10.6.8). You should also check that you do not have old PPC software (see "About this Mac" under tha Apple menu). You should clone your hard drive to an external drive so that if something does go wrong you can revert to Snow Leopard. Having said that, I had very few problems and all were very minor.
Hope that helps.

How Come the iMac Can't Boot Snow Leopard DVDs Anymore Under Lion and ML?

Hi. I'm using ML as my main OS but I noticed when after installing Mountain Lion it doesn't recognize and just ejects the Snow Leopard DVD installers that came with my Mac (you could boot to it when the iMac had Snow Leopard). It doesn't see it as bootable anymore (it doesn't appear as bootable when you boot then press option nor does Startup in System Preferences see it as bootable. The DVD's are in good condition coz' it's not used that often):
Windows 7 Ultimate & Windows 8 Release Preview installer on a DVD-RW which is sees as blank (but it works find on a PC).
Only Snow Leopard that's in a USB (not sure how they made that but it was made for me by Apple repair center). I did back the SL DVDs years ago as .cdr (Master). I'm not sure if the .cdr images of the original SL DVDs can be burned into dual layer DVDs and work like the original (how do you go about that? Do you just burn .cdr like you would with .iso or .dmg?)
I think the hidden recovery partition starting with Lion is actually preventing DVDs from SL to lower versions from being recognized as bootable. Same with bootable Windows DVD-RW as Apple and the rest of the industry (I noticed netbooks now have recovery partitions too) switch to hidden partition and USB installers instead of medias like DVDs and CDs. I would guess if you could install Snow Leopard using an SL USB installer and complete erase the main hardisk along with the hidden recovery partition, install Snow Leopard it'll recognize Windows burned in DVD-RW again.
I can't install Bootcamp coz' it sees Windows 7 & 8 installers as blank drives, even Windows USB installers are not bootable (both USB and DVD-RW installers work fine on the PC). I'm thinking of disabling the iMac's Superdrive by moving in a folder or renaming its driver/extension IOSDVDStorageFamily.kext maybe tomorrow so hopefully when BootCamp sees that the iMac doesn't have an optical drive it'll show the Create USB Installer option (now it only show 2 options) so that it'll create the installers into the Flash drive.
I'm anxious of booting the USB Snow Leopard Installer and erasing the drive completely along with ML's recovery partition then installing SL in the hardisk because my Time Machine backup could get messed up. It might not restore the ones backedup by Lion and ML, although I could manually copy paste the documents but that'll defeat the main purpose of having a Time Machine backup.
Has anyone experienced this too with their Snow Leopard DVDs and Windows USB installers? Any solutions?
Thank you in advance.
God bless.

Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try again.

If I skip Lion and upgrade from Snow Leopard, will there be a price difference?

I know you can upgrade from the most recent Snow Leopard to Mountion Lion. However, I have heard I may get change more if I don't upgrade from Lion first. My question is, is it true?

No.

Currently have CS3 can I skip CS4 and upgrade directly to CS5?

I currently have CS3 and was wondering do I need to get CS4 and then CS5? Or can I skip and just upgrade? I will be taking a class and the book is Adobe CS4 classroom in a box, will that be extremely different from CS5? I don't want to have to pay for CS4 then CS5 too!

You will be hard pressed to find a legitimate copy of CS4.
The CS3 to CS5 Design Premium upgrade is available at Amazon for about $780 with free shipping: http://amzn.to/bcdcrU
You can save a bit on Design Standard at about $665 http://amzn.to/aMkmN7 but you're giving up an awful lot. This article on my website may be helpful: http://www.theindesignguy.com/purchase-advice.shtml
Bob

I have a MAC that runs Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The new OSX Mavericks is free for download and I was thinking about upgrading. Will my Creative Suite 4 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign) work with OSX Mavericks?

Was hoping to keep my Creative Suite 4 just a little longer. Will it be possible with Mavericks?

Uh uh, I see!
Also it seems I can use my time machine backup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Assistant_(Apple)
together with Migration Assistant. This would work. Thanks
Now I need to figure out the Windows part. I need a full backup of Windows as well, with all the programs. In particular I need to be sure I can maintain the graphic card drivers.
You don't want to know how long took for me to find out how the **** I could update my graphic card drivers in Windows on my Macbook pro. Unfortunately there was a lot of misleading propaganda from Apple about bootcamp, saying that the new intel processor would have worked fine with Windows. Sad that everything was a lie. When installing Windows with bootcamp the graphic card program was unable to find and install the graphic card drivers update . Took me 2 weeks reading through thousands of angry posts of disappointed costumers to find out how to do that. I do not want to reapeat this dreadful experience.
After one year and a half with my Macbook pro I have a system I am TERRIFIED to touch. It is very very fragile, and any little change can destroy everything. It barely works. that's why I am so scared to re-install the OS

Wordpress 3.1 Mac os x snow leopard - can't upload media files?

strange thing when trying to upload new media to Wordpress 3.1, takes ages to load screen and then the upload button is not there? Just the 'cancel' button?

OK, so force quit Firefox and then it restores the tabs and all ok?

How to uninstall lion and get back to snow leopard, how to uninstall lion and get back to snow leopard

my Final Cut Express 4 is not good in Lion...i have to get back to snow, but how?

i believe i dont have...i just sent my mac to someone i know for rebooting and after that when i had it already it turned to Lion....
hmmm is there a prize updating? bacause the installer i bought is the FCE 4...to what should i upgrade it?

HT2513 What version of iCal do I need to use with Mac OS X Snow Leopard? I upgraded to OS X 10.6.3 and my iCal 3.0.8 won't open.

I just upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.3 and now my iCal 3.0.8 won't open at all. What version do I need to or should I upgrade to and where do I find it?

The version installed with Snow Leopard since iCal is part of OS X. If you are trying to use iCal from a different drive and version of OS X, then it won't work. If the installed version of iCal in Snow Leopard is the wrong version, then there was a problem. Delete the wrong version then reinstall Snow Leopard:
Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive
Do the following:
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. 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 installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install the Combo Updater for the version you prefer from support.apple.com/downloads/.

Uploaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto Macbook Pro and now iTunes wont iPhone

Can someone pls help!
I have recently uploaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto my Macbook pro and now iTunes won't recognise my iPhone. It does however recognise my iPhone in iphoto.... does anyone know how to resolve this???
I'M IN DESPERATE NEED FOR NEW MUSIC ON MY iPHONE!!!!!!!

Try reinstalling itunes. DL from:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Also have a look at this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591?viewlocale=en_US

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