If I upgrade to Snow Leopard can I still get my Time Machine files ?

Having real problems with my friends Macbook.
I want to now want to erase his drive (presently running 10.5.?) and put on Snow Leopard and start afresh.
There is a Time Machine back up of his present disc and OS (and some of the files therein may be causing him the problems that he's having.
If I completely clear out his computer and put in the new OS (10.6.3), will I then be able to do an incremental re-install of his vital applications from TM without losing all those vital settings (like the Photoshop serial number etc etc etc) ?
I'm afraid that I may give him back a fully working machine (now with a clean OS) but without all the applications that he uses.

It's usually best to fix any problems before upgrading, unless you know for sure the upgrade will fix them. Without knowing what the problems are, we can't really help.
And you can't restore many individual apps successfully. See [Transferring Applications|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/TransferApps.html].
But as Clio1 says, you can install Snow Leopard; that will delete Leopard entirely, so you might see an improvement, but I wouldn't count on it: things might get worse, especially if you have some apps that aren't compatible with Snow Leopard.

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Snow leopard can't be installed on my machine.

Alright, here goes. Thank you in advance.
BACK STORY:
I have an Intel iMac. I've had it for a few years and it's always been awesome. I was running Leopard, and it was all gravy. So much so, that I even took it in to my Apple store to see if there was anything I needed to do to protect my machine, or if there were any updates for my machine that I should purchase. Dude at genius bar said yea, there is an iLife update and a new version of OS, Snow Leopard. He told me he would update my macbook (which was getting a new hard drive put in) for me and show me how to do it, so that when I got home with my iMac, I could do the same update to it. iLife 11 and Snow Leopard installed perfectly on my Macbook (my secondary computer). I tried to installed Snow Leopard verbatim what the Apple associate showed me, with his written directions. Popped in my disc, selected English, install began, got about 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and an error message came up reading "Snow Leopard can't be installed on this machine". Interesting. Apple store guy said I was good to go?
DIAGNOSIS FROM APPLE STORE:
I took my iMac back to the apple store the next day, with my macbook incase I needed to run a firewire from iMac to Macbook to transfer files. Dude tried to save some of my data but couldn't access it. He told me there was a OS conflict and he was unable to archive and install. He gave me a card with all the information for a data recovery service and told me I was SOL. Great. I took my mac in to make sure it was good to update, he said yes, and then I did it, in turn frying my main computer into a useless paperweight.
FUNCTIONALITY:
When I try to turn on my iMac now, it goes to a grey screen with an apple and a spinning gear. This screen stays up for about 45 seconds and then the computer shuts off. I've connected a firewire to the iMac and my Macbook and held the T key down in an effort to save my photos and music etc. The firewire symbol comes up on the iMac, but nothing appears in my finder on my Macbook like an external hard drive would. If I put the Snow Leopard disc in, and hold the T key, the Snow Leopard disc will show up in my Macbook's finder/desktop. If I put the Snow Leopard disc in the iMac and boot it up the computer just shuts down, even if I hold the C key. If I boot with the Leopard disc and hold C, the disc will mount and I can re-install Leopard, but I get a warning that all of my data will be erased in doing so. Obviously I don't want to part with 200+ GB of data. My last back up was about a month before all this so it won't be the end of the world but there are photos and other things that are recent to my hard drive with no back up and that I'd rather not lose if I don't have to.
BASIC INFORMATION:
I'm 24 with a bachelors degree and I am very comfortable with my mac. AKA you don't have to reply like you're teaching your grandma how to email.
My iMac IS an Intel iMac.
I have 47 GB of free space on it, plenty of room for an OS update.
Firewire ports are FW400 on both computers.
I had to archive and install Leopard once about a year ago on my iMac. Not sure why there was issue, but the problem was fixed when I did this.
So, do I have any options here besides erasing my hard drive? Has anyone ran into this before. Sorry for the rant. Thank you again.

Attach an external hard drive to the iMac. Boot from the Snow Leopard disc again, launch Disk Utility, go into the Restore tab, select the internal drive as the source, select the external drive as the destination, and restore. Then partition -- do not merely erase -- the internal drive, and see whether you can install onto it. If you can, use Migration Assistant to restore your data from the backup.
Not backing up = inevitable data loss.

HT1444 I need to Upgrade to Snow leopard, can i download it from the app store, if so how do i do it?

I need to Upgrade to Snow leopard OS X from Leopard OS X, can i downlaod it from the Mac App Store, if so how do I do it?

Ah yes. South Africa. I checked the international listings for you but there seems to be no direct Apple support in South Africa. I cannot imagine why since the political restraints for countries like Iran are not those of South Africa.
I understand that Apple United States do not ship orders outside of the USA.
You may have to contact Apple Head Office.

Just upgraded to Snow leopard; can't receive photo attach's in email

We just upgraded to snow leopard and now can't receive photos in email attachments. All that pops up is a bunch of alpha-numeric characters in some emails and the little blue boxes with the inserted question marks in others. Also seem to note that replies are not denoted or marked/flagged as they were in the previous version, though this is not as big a deal as the said replies seem to make it to their intended destination. Mail version is 4.5 (1084). Please advise

Another note, Ernie... I said that I emailed a pic from the imac (which is where I'm having the problems... snow leopard?) to my ipad and no problem, the pic shows up fine; but if I then forward that email BACK to the imac, then no-go... no pic just the following, and I'm shortening it for simplicity's sake:
--Apple-Mail-1--691056766
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="text/html";
boundary=Apple-Mail-2--691056765
--Apple-Mail-2--691056765
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=utf-8
<html><body bgcolor=3D"#FFFFFF">
Sent from my iPad
<br=
Begin forwarded message:
From:=
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ate: April 2, 2011 10:53:08 PM EDT
To: jak@
Subject: really a pic this time
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</body></html>=
--Apple-Mail-2--691056765
Content-Disposition: inline;
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Content-Id: <8E1037EC-DD94-4CEE-9647-611D5098D161/19%20pr.jpg>
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
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Worth the Upgrade to Snow Leopard, can I upgrade from volume licence?

I have the original (non unibody) macbook pro 2.4 GHz 2GB ram, 256 MB graphics card etc. etc.
I was wondering if my computer would be able to use the majority of the 64 bit architecture that apple has implemented in this new operating system and if I will see a serious performance increase if I can take advantage of it.
Also, I currently have a volume licence of leopard, and I didnt know how upgrading from that to snow leopard would work. Does anyone know if that is possible? I want to get the family pack.
Thank You!

Yes, that computer will work fine. You will notice a speed difference running 64-bit apps, which include all Apple's apps that come with SL. SL boots, shuts down and repairs permissions faster too.
If you have a family pack license, you can use one of those to install it.
Dave M.
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I want to upgrade from snow leopard to Yosemite all at one time. is this a good idea on my imac 8.1 using OS X 10.6.8?

I am using snow leopard on a mac 8.1 can I up grade in one step to Yosemite or should I up grade to an earlier OS first?

Yes, you can jump to Yosemite directly. Before you do be sure your computer is compatible:
Upgrading to Yosemite
You can upgrade to Yosemite from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Yosemite can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for FREE.
Upgrading to Yosemite
To upgrade to Yosemite you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Download Yosemite from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Yosemite is free. The file is quite large, over 5 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 Mavericks/Yosemite- System Requirements
    Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Yosemite
         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.
I would also suggest you do the following before installing the upgrade:
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.

Moving snow leopard data from from old iMac time machine to Yosemite

I have a pre-2007 17" iMac running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Time Machine is used to backup this machine.
I plan to buy a new iMac or Mac Mini with Yosemite, and would like to move some of the data from the old iMac to the new Mac machine.
Can I connect the new Yosemite Mac to Time Machine and selectively restore data from the Snow Leopard backup?

This solution worked perfectly (almost).
Tips: don't forget to deauthorize old computers for itunes content lol.
The folders copied over easily, and lauching each program, a few prompts and each had pulled in my old data easily. I noticed one currupt picture that I'll look on my old machine to find. I plan on verifing quantity of music, photos, etc to double check. And iMovie was having a lil trouble opening, hopefully thats resolved with my gbs of unedited videocamera movies. Otherwise easy.
I noticed my iweb didnt import, so I probally need to find it in documents or something.
Thanks for all the help. Hope this helps someone else.

Upgrading to larger HD - can I restore everything using Time Machine?

I plan on upgrading my existing 120GB HD to a 500GB; moving all existing apps and data onto it, plus consolidating from an external HD.
At the moment, I have everything installed and set up just how I want it, and don't look forward to doing this all over again. Can I install a fresh Leopard on the new 500GB drive and restore my system/apps/settings from my Time Machine backup?
If so, once complete, will the system be exactly as it was on the smaller HD? Or would I be better using something like CCC?

Could you explain the CCC or SD method?
you'll need another external drive for that. clone the current internal to that external using either CCC or SD. replace the internal drive. then boot from the clone. to do that reboot and hold "option" at the chime . this will boot you into the startup disk manager where you can choose which drive to boot from. once you are booted from the external start disk utility and reformat the new internal. make sure it's formatted mac os extended journaled with GUID partition scheme. then clone the external back to the new internal. select the new internal as the boot drive in startup disk system preferences and reboot. this is somewhat lengthier process than using restore from TM but I find it more reliable.

I have a Macbook which is running Snow Leopard. I back up using time machine to an external drive. If I purchase a new Apple Macbook pro running Lion if I use the backup to this will I be able to use Leopard on the new computer

I have a Macbook running Snow Leopard which I back up to an external drive using time machine. If I purchase a new MacBook pro and transfer backup from time maching to MacBook Pro will it also transfer Snow Leopard as its is my preferred O.S.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
If the new computer did not originally ship with Snow Leopard installed, no, you will not be able to go back from Lion. Snow Leopard lacks the necessary drivers required for newer hardware.

Migrate from a snow leopard to Mountain Lion using a Time machine, is it possible?

Hi,
I currently have a Mac running Snow Leopard and I'm using Time Capsule to store my backup. I'm planning in buying a new iMac as soon as they are available and I would like to know what is the recommended procedure to move over all my stuff (program, docs, pictures, etc) from my old Mac to the new Mac
Thank for your help,
Ignacio

The first time you boot your new Mac into Setup Assistant you will be prompted to migrate. Choose from "Time Machine Backup".

Since upgrading to Mavericks, I can no longer see my Time Machine or printer on the network.

I have uninstalled printer and re-installed drivers but no printer is showing when I click to + new printer.
Also the TM can no longer be seen... Suggestions?
Printer = Dell 1760NW
Both the printer and the Time machine are showing 'green lights'
thanks in advance

Regarding the printer:
From: sterling r: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5506493?tstart=0
If that does not help then from braden85:
This first article is about changing or updating printer software in Mountain Lion, and can be found here:
OS X Mountain Lion: Change or update printer software
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10622
This next article tells you where to find the printer software for your specific printer brand:
OS X: Printer and scanner software available for download
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669

If I install new hard drive can I still restore from time machine?

I'm planning on updating the hard drive in my macbook to a 320gb drive. I currently have a drive with around 120gb of space. I know there are programs available to back up the entire hard drive. But, I've been having issue with my computer lately and I would rather just start over and just back up microsoft office because I don't have the key anymore and my iTunes library. Can I do all this from just my Time Machine back-ups and reinstall everything else? Or is the best way to make a bootable back up to my new drive and then install the hardware in my mac book.
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I did this just a few weeks ago. I replaced my 80g hd with a 320g hd. I used time machine to backup my computer. All I had to do was swap hard drives. Use the install dvd to start computer. i then used disk utility to properly format the new hard drive (mac journaled). Then I used the restore option. That was all I had to do. Everything from my old hard drive was put on my new one in about one hour. Time Machine backs up your entire hard drive unless you excluded anything. So you can have a clean install of everything just the way it was on your old hard drive just by using Time Machine.

If I set up secure shared disks with accounts, can i still use the time machine backup feature.

I was setting up an account on the time capsule so I can have other people have their own private folder. My question is, Can I still back up my data on my time capsule by using time machine?

Sorry the account feature is irrelevant.. You do not want to use it.. you can migrate your data to your computer.. The account feature is not needed, required, useful or anything to do with restoring your files..
You use account access to stop everybody being able to see your files.. the problem is.. it is not itself secure.. so if i get hold of your TC I can delete your accounts with a soft reset and access all your files.. so it is useless.. don't bother using it.. ignore it.. !!
If you wish to have secure backups use the Time Machine Encrypt backup feature.

I have elements 11 and skipped the upgrade to 12. Can I still get the upgrade to 13?

I currently have Elements 11, but I skipped the upgrade to 12. Now I want to get 13. Do I still pay for an upgrade, or do I need to buy the full version?

If you update to the latest lightroom 5.2, that should open the Sony RX100-II files.
Unfortunatly pse11 can only use up to camera raw 7.4 and your files require camera raw 8.2
Photoshop elements 12 is able to update to camera raw 8.2 though.

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Hi the last time that I backed up my Mac Pro to my external hard drive using Carbon Copy was when I was on Leopard. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, can I continue using Carbon Copy Cloner on Snow Leopard or do i have to format the external Drive? Thanks

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http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=14836

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