I just hate Lion OS. Can I go back to snow leopard using my time machine backups?

I just hate Lion OS. Can I go back to snow leopard using my time machine backups? it's a big mess... no more rosetta or Isync ot network usefulness for me... how do I go back to snow leopard using my time machine backups without losing the files i created after the "Lion upgrade"? I want to restore my whole Macbook, but fear to lose these recently created files, some help?

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Don't patronise him. This is Apples fault. Next time dont comment if you have nothing good to say!

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That means there is a directory on your HD called something like backups. backupdb
It thinks you're using the drive for TM. Delete this directory and it will then load.
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"Backups.backupdb" if the file in Time Machine. As the discussion says, you have to find that file and trash it. Try spotlight to locate it. If that does not work, down load OmniDiskSweeper from the Internet (free) and go through an organized search to find "Backups.backupdb". If that takes too long or is too tedious, then if you have everything backed up, erase the HDD and start from square one.
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I'm having trouble installing Lion onto my macbook pro intel core 2 duo.
I am backing up my computer with an external drive using TimeMachine, but i've disconnected it. Also i'm running SL 10.6.8
I have a windows 7 partition that was created with boot camp.
I've tried to make sure everything is all ready for lion but when I go to install lion it says "This disk is used for Time Machine backups" and the hard drive is grayed out.
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"Backups.backupdb" if the file in Time Machine. As the discussion says, you have to find that file and trash it. Try spotlight to locate it. If that does not work, down load OmniDiskSweeper from the Internet (free) and go through an organized search to find "Backups.backupdb". If that takes too long or is too tedious, then if you have everything backed up, erase the HDD and start from square one.
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Where are Apple?
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I was sure that I had trashed the Backups.backupdb folder from the top level - it did require me to enter my Admin password.
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Alexander Chan1 wrote:
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1) Has one of the recent updates either on the AE (firmware) or OSX disabled this function?
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I just hate Lion OS. Can I go back to snow leopard using my time machine backups?

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