Is it possible to uninstall Snow Leopard?

I have had nothing but problems since I installed Snow Leopard. I have noticed absolutely no advantages, including any change in speed. The worst problem is that my printer (Brother HL4070CDW) won't work right, even though there is a driver for it in Snow Leopard. I have to reboot the computer each time I want to print something. It will print the job, but then the next job prints nothing but pages and pages of garbage unless I reboot for weach job.
I would like to go back to Leopard, which is a great OS.

You can uninstall Sno and go back to Leo using [archive and install (electing to preserve user and network settings)|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710]. You will need your original Leo install DVD to do this kind of installation. Before installing be sure and repair permissions and disk. After installing, you will have a Previous Systems folder on your hard drive (i.e., in your hard drive folder). Once you are sure you won't need any of its contents you can delete the folder. [Use these instructions|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2196] in order to access its contents, etc. Also, after your install, your data and apps will be in place.

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How to uninstall Snow Leopard? major font problems in iWork, iLife

All iWork and iLife apps have shocking font problems... so much so that I need to uninstall Snow Leopard and wait for Apple to sort it out. Does anyone know the best way? And how is it possible that these problems are occurring with Apple's inhouse software? Other stuff seems to be working OK so far for the most part. For a bit more detail on my problems, including sample images:
http://bit.ly/309G0o

Snow lizard cost me $27.000.00 in unusable fonts. We installed snow lizards (what I'm calling it now) and lost 934 fonts. Say 40 were bad fonts and 896 were type 1 postscript. When I explained to the tech person how big this was to the print community, he had no clue. - I'm still waiting to hear back. I have a case number but now I read from another post they knew Snow Lizard would do this. At 30.00 per font that is almost $27,000 to replace what they thought wasn't important. But in the print world of design this is huge. Every layout and ad that needs an update - which take a few minutes is a whole rework. They have no clue what business a mac computer is in or they don't see us as important.
I did find if I load those fonts or the font missing into the InDesign font folder I can get the old ad to make it to pdf. But photoshop and illustrator, I'm screwed. And if I didn't outline the type in illustrator - it's gone. I asked the tech guy if I can go back, and undo this slimy lizard and he said probably not if we do backups. We do backups every hour - this is the print business. I feel forsaken. I've been with apple for so many years.

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.

How do I uninstall Snow Leopard?

Since I installed Snow Leopard (upgraded from Leopard), I have had problems accessing documents and having documents display correctly. The software these are in are old versions (CS2 and Exel 2004). I need these documents and want to go back to Leopard. Do I simply install Leopard from the CD? Will that override Snow Leopard?

You would need to do an Erase and Install in order to "uninstall" Snow Leopard. However I think you should troubleshoot why your apps do not run or make sure they are up-to-date. Both are extremely old (pushing 10 years) and could probably use some updating. Snow Leopard is an extremely sound version of OS X so if you are having issues running some specific applicaitons I would recommend troubleshooting why those apps are having troubles.
For example with MS Office, version 2011 has been available for almost 2 years! You will need to buy it but you can find it on Amazon for about $90. Regarding your Adobe Applications, there are also much more up-to-date versions.
While upgrading can be some work, I have found through experience that not updating eventually becomes extremely painful. This is because at some point you will need to upgrade your computer and your old apps will not run due to simple incompatibility so it becomes very expensive to upgrade them all at one time. It is wise to upgrade one at a time as finances allow.

How do I uninstall snow leopard and re-install OSX leopard?

How do I uninstall snow leopard and re-install OSX leopard?

Sorry to hear that, Snow Leopard runs as fast or faster than either Tiger and Leopard did on my Jan 2006 Early Intel iMac on 2GB of RAM?
Before you blame Snow Leopard, run the Extended Apple Hardware Test and check the SMART status of your Hard Drive to make sure that you do not have another problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14825/smartreporter

I have a 15" MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion installed. I have partitioned the hard drive into two partitions. Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on the second partition? If so how do I do it?

I have a 15" MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion installed. I have partitioned the hard drive into two partitions. Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on the second partition? If so how do I do it?

If your MacBook Pro had Snow Leopard on it at one time then sure. (Early 2011 or earlier)
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
Obviously choose the second partition to install into. It has to be OS X Extended journaled formatted in Disk Utility (BootCamp software makes it a MSDOS/FAT32 formatted partition if you used that to partition with)
If it's a Early 2011 or Late 2011 that came with 10.7, it's possible, but it's not easy.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3264421?start=0&tstart=0
If you can't install Snow Leopard, there is a thread over at MacRumors how to run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine program under 10.7 or 10.8

Uninstall Snow Leopard and reinstall Leopard

Any advice on how to uninstall Snow Leopard and reinstall Leopard. My Epson 3800 Printer just wont work with Snow Leopard. Thanks

Hello Anthony:
There is no "uninstall." If you have a backup (hopefully you do) made before you moved to OS X 10.6, restore that.
If you do not, this article gives you the options:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545
Barry

Delete or uninstall snow leopard

how to delete or uninstall snow leopard

I too would like to uninstall Snow Leopard. The only instructions I can find involve erasing and re-formatting the disc. I do not want to do that.
I have done a dual-boot installation of Lion and SL on a new SSD (I have an old Mac Pro and cannot go newer than Lion). My old HD is now just for user accounts. But it still has SL on it, and I don't need or want it to be there. So that's why I want to un-install without erasing the disc (and the user accounts that are there). I suppose I could just delete the toplevel System, Applications, and Library folders - but that seems weird. Or just copy the user accounts to backup, erase the disc, and copy the user accounts back - but that's kinds scary.
Thanks.

How do I uninstall snow leopard? please help

Hey everyone, I am having a lot of troubles with snow leopard and since its not really a BIG difference between leopard, i decided to go back to leopard, so ok.
I got my 17 inch mac book pro, it came with leopard, and with the snow leopard installation cd, and i installed it, now, my question is, how do i uninstall snow leopard without leaving any trace??
please help, its really urgent
I want to go back to leopard

To do the most in terms of leaving no trace, you will need to do an erase and install. Start from your Leopard DVD by holding down c when starting up. Next, when able, choose your language and stop. Then, using the menus at the top, select Disk Utility; check to see that your volume's partition is GUID; and make it GUID if necessary. Then, erase your drive. Next, quit Disk Utility and continue the install. After the install is complete, insert your Leopard applications disk and install the programs you want. Now, you are done except for restoring you data, apps, and settings using whatever media are available to you.
As implied, you need to have a plan to get your data and apps back especially. In this regard, it may be less important for you to get your users and settings back.
If you are not prepared backup-wise, then you can use your Leopard DVD, again by starting up to it, to do an archive and install. Since you want no trace of Snow Leopard, I would not choose the option of preserving user and network settings. After doing an the archive and install, your archives will be in the Previsous Systems folder. [See posts three and five on this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2168159&tstart=25] to get more info on archiving and installing and retrieving things you may want afterward.

Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on an external hard disk?

I was wondering if it is possible to install Snow Leopard on an external drive that I use as a backup start up disk. Can I then boot up off of either disk? I would like to test Snow Leopard with my applications before I install it on my internal drive.
Thanks

You can install from your install disk and migrate from your internal during Setup Assistant.
If all is well you can then use SuperDuper or CarbonCopy Cloner both free for cloning to clone the system on your external to your internal.
This is what I do when testing upgrades/updates.
-mj

Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a PC and to run it with two Nvidia Quadro Cards and 8 Screens?

Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a PC and to run it with two Nvidia Quadro Cards and 8 Screens?

Furthermore, all new Macs since 2006 have been able to have Windows or Linux installed on them natively with virtualization engines*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
You may even want to consider a used Mac Pro*:
http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html

Before upgrade the mountain lion need to uninstall snow leopard ?? or its automatically upgrade?

please help me

You can just upgrade to Mountain Lion. You do not need to uninstall Snow Leopard.

Is it possible to install snow leopard on a Macbook Pro 13" i5 2.5 Ghz model?

is it possible coz im getting a new macbook pro next week and just wondering if it works.. thanks

clintonfrombirmingham wrote:
Snow Leopard won't run on the new MacBook Pros. It's Lion or Mountain Lion - nothing else.
Clinton, that's not true. It will run, as I've provided. The biggest problem is finding a copy of SL server...no longer sold by Apple.

How do I uninstall Snow Leopard Server, so that I can revert back to Snow Leopard?

I was experimenting with the Snow Leopard Server DVD on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. I started the installation process, expecting that it would not install on the Startup Disk, as I had not booted from the DVD.
To my surprise it installed!
How do I "uninstall" or revert back to Snow Leopard, without have to take such drastic steps that I would lose all of my Snow Leopard System folder contents (such as doing a wipe and starting over with a fresh Snow Leopard install)? Thank you.

I assume by "back up your data" you mean a Time Machine backup?
Preferably, yes.
I have a BootCamp partition to run Windows; does Time Machine back that up, too?
No, but it won't be affected unless something goes wrong. You still need to back it up, of course, just like all other data.

Is it possible to use Snow Leopard on Mountain Lion iMac with Virtualbox ?

I've been lucky recently, with people giving the perfect solutions for me so I try again.
But, this one is a tough one: How to run a virtual Snow Leopard on a new iMac ?
I got a 2013 iMac with Mountain Lion (10.8.5 now) so, totally incompatible with Snow Leopard. I need SL anyway.
Give up all you old applications and buy new ones is not acceptable. First, this is not my way of thinking and, second, some cannot be replaced.
Many posts say that you can use Snow Leopard with VirtualBox but I could not find anywhere the "how to" (in this particular configuration).
For instance, I followed these 2 protocols, almost similar:
http://www.maketecheasier.com/install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-in-virtualbox-on-win dows/
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/snow-leopard-virtualbox.html
but they use Windows as host system and something is not working (for me) with Mountain Lion.
I made many attempts, with VirtualBox 4.2.18, using pretty much everything: Snow Leopard DVD, SL Server DVD, .dmg of both. I've also got Combo 10.6.8 updates for both (but I'm not sure if it can be used before installing). With another MacBook, I managed to install a SLS on external hard drive and update to 10.6.8. Was unable to use it anyway.
Inevitably, I ended up with the message:
"FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."
I have no idea of what support to use and even, probably important, if it should be set on Primary or Secondary Master ? (in Settings / Storage)
Is it possible at all ???
Would it work better with VMware Fusion ? Anybody successful ?
Help
Thanx

How to install and run OS 10.6 Snow Leopard on a virtual machine on top of OS 10.7 Lion:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/17/install-run-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-in-virtual -machine-on-lion/
From kappy:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc. Insert the disc into the
         optical drive and restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the
         "C" key. Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the
         dark gray Apple logo.
     2. 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 the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, set the format type to Mac
         OS Extended (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Partition button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will require a restart after
         which you will be running a fresh install of OS X. You can now begin the update
         process by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to
         bring your installation current.
First you will have to prep your new SSD:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Boot from your OS X 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.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, 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.

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