Installed Snow Leopard & now EVERY APP IS CRASHING

I thought my Adobe CS3 was the worst of it. Until I tried to send an email with an attachment.
EVERY TIME I try to attach a file, Mail crashes.
This is so awful. I am having problems with EVERY application I open.
Firefox crashes when I try to download a file.
Adobe Indesign CS3 crashes when I try to re-link or even place an image.
Adobe Acrobat crashes when I try to make a multi page pdf, etc, etc...
Makes me wonder if they tested this upgrade on any computers at all.
When do we get an update - or do I have to un-install and go back to Leopard?
Loosing HOURS of work and restarts IS NOT OK.
I was so excited that Snow Leopard would take 7GB less space on my computer, I didn't think to wait for reviews.
I have been a MAC user all my life. But this recent string of shotty software, plus some serious hardware issues, are making me re-think my loyalty.

tazangel33 wrote:
EVERY TIME I try to attach a file, Mail crashes. This is so awful. I am having problems with EVERY application I open.... Makes me wonder if they tested this upgrade on any computers at all.
Your last comment makes me think you're misunderstanding what has happened: your computer is the outlier, not the norm. Something specific about your computer is causing the instability. Of course they tested it: the general consensus is that, for the vast majority, this is the most trouble-free, most compatible OS upgrade Apple has produced since Mac OS X was introduced.
Of course that's cold comfort when it's your machine that's been hosed. Every so often, we each draw the short straw. But please do know that if you look hard enough for third-party incompatibilities, and/or are willing to ferret out file corruption on your hard drive with DiskWarrior or Disk Utility, you'll be able to get a stable, trouble-free Snow Leopard system, just as most of us have.
You may have to upgrade some older software to do it, but for example Adobe CS3 works without a hitch for me and my colleagues.
Best of luck.

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Trying to get icloud, installed snow leopard, now it says I need OSX, but my processor isn't right for it. Is this possible? Do I need to buy a nw computer? will I loose all my mobile me storage?

Trying to get icloud, installed snow leopard, now it says I need OSX, but my processor isn't right for it. Is this possible? Do I need to buy a nw computer? will I loose all my mobile me storage?

You will lose the entire contents of your iDisk whether or not you migrate to MobileMe as there is no equivalent in iCloud and MobileMe will be terminated at the end of June. You will need to download any data which you don't have on your Mac already.
Snow Leopard is not compliant with iCloud and most of the facilities will not work. You can migrate from MobileMe to iCloud at http://me.com/move even with Snow Leopard: when asked to confirm that your Mac is running Lion just lie and say 'yes'. Of course you won't be able to access iCloud directly from your Mac.
If you have MobileMe mail set up to collect mail from external POP accounts you should cancel this before migrating, or you may find it still working in iCloud (where it isn't supposed to) and with no way of stopping it.
This will be the situation with Snow Leopard when you have migrated:
Your email, calendars, and 'Find my iPhone' will be migrated to iCloud. Contacts and Bookmarks cannot be migrated from a Snow Leopard Mac.
Your iDisk, together with website hosting and Gallery, will continue to work as before until next June.
Syncing of Dashboard Widgets, Dock Items and Keychains between Macs, and Mail Accounts, Mail Rules, System Preferences, Signatures & Smart Mailboxes between Macs & iOS devices, will cease altogether.
You will be able to access email and calendars on the iCloud website at http://icloud.com provided your browser is reasonably up-to-date.
You will not be able to sync contacts or bookmarks from a pre-Lion Mac.
You will be able to enter the server settings for email manually in the Mail application and access your email.
You will not be able to sync your calendars directly.
Some people have been able to set up calendar syncing by using the method detailed here - this is an unsupported hack and may not be reliable, and may stop working at some future point.
There appears to be no method of syncing contacts (though Address Book on a Mac can be synced with Google or Yahoo address books - I don't know how reliable this is).
There are a couple of third-party solutions which may be of interest.
BusyCal is an iCal-like calendar application with extra facilities: it can sync with the iCloud Calendar while running on Leopard, Snow Leopard or Lion. A single user licence (two machines allowed) is $49.99.
Soho Organizer can sync Calendars and Contacts with iCloud on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. A single user licence (multiple machines allowed) is $99.99.

Can I install Snow Leopard now?

I previously asked a similar question, but can I install Snow Leopard 10.6.3 in a VM, update it to 10.6.8, and then copy files to a partition on my hard drive? I have 10.6.3 retail version. (mid 2011 iMac)

How To Run Snow Leopard On A New Mac
This does not apply to new Mac Minis or MacBook Airs. When newer models are introduced that also require Lion for hardware support, the techniques described below will no longer work with the possible exception of using Parallels 7.
What has to be done:
1. Create a new partition on the hard drive.
2. Get a clone of a 10.6.8 Snow Leopard system. Put the cloned Snow Leopard
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Step One: Create a new partition on the hard drive
To resize the drive and create a new partition do the following:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
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3.           In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4.           Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Step Two: Obtain a clone of a Snow Leopard system:
You will need access to a Mac already running Snow Leopard. You will need a 16 GB USB flash drive or an external hard drive to which you can clone the Snow Leopard system from the Mac that has Snow Leopard installed. Alternatives are:
Option One:
Install a new Snow Leopard system onto a USB flash drive. Boot the Mac used for installing with the USB flash drive. Update the flash drive system to 10.6.8 using the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard. Verify that you can boot the Mac with the USB flash drive.
Take the USB flash drive to your new Mac and try booting from it. If it works then clone the system from the flash drive to the newly made partition:
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1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new partition on the internal drive. Source means the USB
flash drive.
Option Two:
If you have a large enough external drive you can erase and use, then it would be easier to just clone the entire Snow Leopard system from the source Mac computer to the external drive.
          Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external drive. Source means the Snow Leopard Mac's
internal drive.
After cloning verify that it will boot the source Mac. If so then take the external drive to your new Mac boot with it. If all is well then restore the clone to the new partition on your new Mac:
          Restore the clone using Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
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6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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I installed Snow Leopard on my '07 Mac Pro a few days ago and since then I've been having a curious problem with the Mac's inbuilt Airport Extreme card which I've always successfully used to connect to the internet via a router.
When I switch my Mac on, Airport shows a good signal but the Safari page remains blank, constantly indicating that it is downloading. This happens regardless of the site Im downloading from.
But if I turn Airport off, then back on, everything goes back to normal and I can surf the net as usual.
This happens every time start up my Mac.
The router signal is fie. Using iStumbler I've checked my SNR - it varies from 19 to 25dB , which isn't bad. I've also used WiFi on my iPhone while waiting for that first page to download on Safari, and the iPhone browser works perfectly.
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Welcome to the discussion area!
If you have not already done so, I suggest deleting the network connection on your computer and then logging on to the network again to see if that helps.
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Network
Click on AirPort to highlight it, then click Advanced at the lower right
Locate the name of your wireless network in the connection list and click it to highlight it
Click the - (minus) button at the bottom of the list to delete it
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > KeyChain Access
Locate the listing with the name of your wireless network
Right-click the listing and choose Delete
Restart your computer and click the fan shaped Airport icon at the top of the screen to locate your wireless network and log on again.
Any help?
If not, unfortunately...Apple will usually recommend that you reinstall the operating system, so you may be looking at that option if the steps above are not successful. Check with Apple before you do this.

Installed Snow Leopard, now Boot Camp is Gone?

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Because it has this function, it is important not to press the power button at the wrong time during the reset procedure, which can abort it.

I just installed snow leopard and every thing seems to working fine except my Epson stylus color 740i printer. Nothing happens when I try to print.

I just installed Snow Leopard as upgrade and everything seems to working well except my printer does not work. It is Epson stylus color 740i. What do i need to do.

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Installed Snow Leopard now my Time Capsule isn't functioning.... HELP

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Bad news- since I've installed it my Time Capsule isn't backing-up....
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This is driving me nuts!
I've been into my local Apple re-seller (I wish I was in the States) and suggestions have been:
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Can someone out there help me..... please.
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Start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
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Thought it was Bad Ram (Even though i am running 8 GBs) but did a test using a program called "Memory" and all seems to be fine. I thought it might be the ram since multitasking is a nightmare, things slow to a serious halt and it has become extremely disruptive. I find myself restarting almost anytime I want to use the computer.
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Rember and Memtest I assume.
If I were you, I'd do a clean install and try that, then gradually install your applications and test things out.
Sounds like you may have issues with the file system (did you run Disk Warrior ahead of time?) or incompatible applications (and no, SL doesn't know everything to look for).
Migrating from a G5 to a Mac Pro can often bring it to a crawl for instance.
Are you still needing to run anything under Rosetta to execute PowerPC code?
Did you boot from SL DVD and repair your drive? if you do/did, it will "prepare" your drive for SL that it can't do if you do an upgrade-in-place. Best to format a drive with a new OS if possible.
And make sure your system drive is half empty even.

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Issue resolved in thread in the DVD Studio Pro forum here:
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I installed Snow Leopard now my HP wireless printer won't print.

I suggest you check the properties of the printer in control panel and make sure the IP of the port matches what the IP address is allocated to printer by the hub, sounds like a miss match somewhere
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