Is it legal to put Snow Leopard on a computer I built?

Is it legal to put a unused copy of Snow Leopard an a computer I built?

OSX is only legal on Apple-provided hardware, like MBP, macmini, iMac.

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I took Lion off my Macbook Pro and put Snow Leopard back on and now I can't access Mail or iPhoto. How do I get Mail and iPhoto to work with the Snow Leopard I just put back on?

Hi. I was having slowness problems with my Macbook Pro and thought I would re-install Lion but put Snow Leopard back on by mistake. I bought the computer used with Lion on it and don't have access to the USB drive or a username/password to reinstall Lion. Now I can't access Mail or iPhoto since I put Snow Leopard on.
Is there a way to get my Mail and iPhoto working again with Snow Leopard or do I have to "re-upgrade" to Lion?
Thanks!
Steve

You can't. When you converted those libraries to Lion's format, you lost the ability to go backwards. Unless you saved a bootable backup./clone or Time Machine backup of your previous SL installation, you're up the proverbial creek w/o a paddle.

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I was unaware of this change for usb support! However Babowa makes a good point in that you would probably not want to run SL via USB and rather Firewire.
Having said that, the 13" MacBooks do not have firewire.
But again as Babowa points out, that machine wouldn't be able to run Lion anyway.

I just put snow leopard 10.6.8 on my macbook pro and I was told that I could purchase Apature for photo management- now its says I need a different version.... is there an older version I could get? so frustrating.

I just put snow leopard 10.6.8 on my macbook pro and I was told that I could purchase Apature for photo management- now its says I need a different version.... is there an older version I could get? so frustrating.

The current version of Aperture requires 10.7.5 or later.
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.

How to put Snow Leopard onto new partition along with Yosemite

Made a second partition on my 2010 iMac that had only one Yosemite partition before. I thought it was supposed to wipe out the original partition when creating another one but much to my surprise Disk Utility merely shrank the size of the Yosemite partition. Result: Yosemite 3.9 TB and new partition (that I want to put Snow Leopard onto) is less than 100 GB. New partition shows under devices in Finder. When I insert Snow Leopard installation CD of course I'm told that I cannot install on this computer or at least this partition. When I restart and hold down the option key the only choice I have is the original partition with Yosemite but not the Snow Leopard partition. So...can anyone tell me what to do to get the Snow Leopard OS onto the second/new partition?

ehstoker wrote:
Didn't work. When I held down the C key I got the black screen with white letters saying that basically I had crashed the computer.
That sounds like your disc is unable to install Snow Leopard - what install disc are you using? Is it grey or a white disk with a Snow Leopard printed on it? Grey discs are for a specific model & cannot be installed on other models. If you can provide a copy of the error message we may be able to help (an image or some of the final output may help). We are left assuming it may be a kernel panic.
The white 'cat' disc is a retail version that can be installed on compatible Macs.
ehstoker wrote:
When I restarted and held down the Option key, I got what I said before which is "the only choice I have is the original partition with Yosemite but not the Snow Leopard partition".
That sounds correct - you don't appear to have managed to install 10.6 yet so you can't select that as a boot option.

How to put Snow Leopard on a Partition

I'm trying to put Snow Leopard on a partition. I have Lion installed on my main disc and when I try to boot from the snow leopard disc I get the 3 beep sounds. I've done this before I just don't remember how. It won't let me boot from the partition.

If I may suggest installing Snow Leopard on an External HD (USB, preferably FireWire) and then running it from there.
Install Snow Leopard Onto An External USB Hard Drive | Maciverse
I have a similar setup in use, with Snow Leopard on the Internal HD and Lion on a FireWire Drive.

I have mac mini os x mountain lion can i put snow leopard on the partition

I have a mac mini os x mountain lion can i put snow leopard on the partition

on the same partition? no. you'll need to create another partition if you want to dual boot, and install SL there.

Trying to update laptop. Putting snow leopard on so I can then buy lion for icloud. after restarting the laptop keeps going on and off. is this normal. white screen too.

Hi
I am trying to update my laptop to Lion for icloud. I am trying to put snow leopard on first but after putting in the disk and restarting my screen is white and it constantly sounds as if it is trying to start or close. Is this right? Thanks

So far so good (I asked because you've posted in the forum for PPC iMacs…).
So what SL disc are you using? The retail 10.6.3 disc (white with the snow leopard pic) or a grey disc borrowed from another Mac?

I just upgraded my 2008 macbook pro to OS X Maverick from Snow Leopard but my computer is running a bit buggy and slow. How do I downgrade back down to snow leopard?

I just upgraded my 2008 macbook pro to OS X Maverick from Snow Leopard but my computer is running a bit buggy and slow. How do I downgrade back down to snow leopard?

You would reinstall 10.6 using your installation DVD.
Out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have? Recent versions of OS X really shine with 4GB or more.
Matt

Dont Judge - I just upgraded to Snow Leopard. My computer is performing so much faster. Is this because of the upgrade? Also, what is the name of the latest software, please.

After a long time, I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard. My computer is seemingly running so much faster, could this be because of the upgrade? The reason it took me so long in the first place is I could not find the location to delete all the used memory. I happened to luck upon a place just the other day that said "all media". From there I was able to go through and get rid of approximately 15GB worth of memory. My computer has been saving multiple copies of all my images. I do not know how to make this stop happening. Has anyone had this experience?

10.6 is faster than 10.5 because of updated video drivers, however the machine will slow down if you upgrade OS X past 10.6.8 as 10.7 and 10.8 are more hardware demanding operating system verisons.
Also 10.7 and 10.8 will not run your PPC based software or older Intel software, requiring all new purchases.
From there I was able to go through and get rid of approximately 15GB worth of memory
What you did was free up 15GB of storage space on your boot drive which if a boot hard drive is getting near full will slow down the comptuers performance. Ideally it's best to stay under 50% filled, but never more than about 80%.
Your "memory" actually refers to the RAM which the processor uses as temporary storage space while it works on things.
Why is my computer slow?
My computer has been saving multiple copies of all my images. I do not know how to make this stop happening. Has anyone had this experience?
Sometimes the duplicates are actually thumbnails, or tiny versions for rapid display in programs like iPhoto with the smaller images to preview before you click the larger version, so they will always be recreated.
Hopefully you didn't delete the original larger files by accident.
The "All Images" is particularly dangerous if not used wisely.
Also it might have been you forget and duplicated the images at one time or another.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

How do I put Snow Leopard on my new SSD?

Hello. I have been having nothing but problems trying to install a new harddrive in my mid-2009 Macbook pro. I returned my Intel SSD that was apparently not compatible with my computer and just purchased a Crucial M4 256GB SSD.
To put it very simply, I run 10.6.8 on my Macbook pro. All I want to do is do a clean install of my OS on the new HD. Nothing else. I don't care about any of my files or anything, they are all backed up and will be fine. I just want the new SSD to be the same OS I've been using and that's it.
I have tried booting from the startup disk, and it does not work! I've already had what appeared to be a kernel panic during one of the attempts.
I have a SATA USB cable hookup, and the SSD is formated in disk utility. All is well, but no matter what I do, I can not just get the freaking OS to go on the harddrive and boot. I have tried Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, both of which did exactly what I DIDN'T want and transfered all my crap from my 500GB HDD to the 256GB SSD... so naturaly it overloaded and didn't boot (many many hours later....).
Can someone please help me? I am getting nowhere. I just moved and don't even know where half my belongings are, so I don't have any access to blank disks, USB drives or any of the things I normally have sitting on my desk. I just want the darn SSD to boot and be a fresh start.

If you are still booting from the old drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Now you will have to boot from your Snow Leopard DVD in order to install it on the SSD:
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.

Can i put snow leopard on a mac mini server? MORE INFO BELOW

Hi! I am getting a mac mini server in august (new hdmi type) and i dont want server becuase i am a home user. can i buy and install regular snow leopard (preferably mac box set) and will there be any software isues? questions: [email protected]

Double posting the same question is a good way to confuse everyone. I suggest you close at least one of these.
See your other posting for my reply.
Allan

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive so I can run quicken 2006, and put snow leopard on my imac harddrive

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive in order to run my quicken 2006, and install lion on the hard drive of my imac?

You don't need to erase the drive and repartition from scratch. You may be able to add a second partition on the fly. The caveat here is that once you do that you cannot create a Windows partition using Boot Camp. Of course if you have no plans for Boot Camp then it isn't relevant.
To create a second partition on your existing startup volume:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
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.
Now, you cannot add a new partition that exceeds the amount of contiguous free space at the end of the drive. Disk Utility will fail to add the partition if it cannot find sufficient contiguous free space. If that's the case then you will need to follow your state outline - backup, boot from clone, erase internal, repartition internal, restore backup to one of the partitions (or both in your case.)

After installing it, my macbook would not restart. All i would see is the Apple and the twirling circle. To get back to be able to use internet i had to put Snow Leopard disc holding "C" key.

I did a software update check. It showed to update to 10.6.8v1.1. After installing it, my MacBook would not restart.
I have tried this more than once. After the install all that happens is i get the Apple emblem and the twirling circle. I have let that go for literaly a couple hours with no results.
To get to be able to use my Macbook i have had to install Snow Leopard by holding the C" key and re-installing Snow Leopard.
Any help would be appreciated. i Have purchased "Lion" and cant access App Store to install until this update is done.
Very frustrating.
thanks in advance.

That's why you can't access the App Store. Minimum requirement is v10.6.6
Install this combo update > Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo
Then restart your Mac, open the App Store.
You can download Lion by clicking Redeem under Quick Links right side of the App Store window then entering the redemption code.
You have checked to make sure your Mac can run v10.7 Lion? >>>> OS X Lion - Technical Specifications

TA48312 Can I put Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my Powermac G5?

I have a Powermac G5 with Leopard 10.5.8 on it and would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or better if possible. My specs are as follows:
Model Name:                    Power Mac G5
Model Identifier:                PowerMac7,3
Processor Name:              PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Processor Speed:             1.8 GHz
Number of CPUs:              2
L2 Cache (per CPU):         512 KB
Memory:                          4 GB
Bus Speed:                      900 MHz
Boot ROM Version:           5.1.8f7
Serial Number (system):    G851****QPL
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No. Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor.
Why do you ask?
Allan

Is it legal to put Snow Leopard on a computer I built?

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