Is Snow Leopard on its death bed?

The strangest thing is happening, when I open NeoOffice I get a message that says the program unexpectedly quit and gives a long detailed message of code about what is broken, or something.
Another program that emulates a TI-Calculator also shows a similar message. Here is an excerpt:
Process: launchd [182]
Path: /Applications/TI-Smartview.app/Contents/MacOS/TI-Smartview
blah blah
Interval Since Last Report: 8858 sec
Crashes since last report: 3
more blah
Backtrace not available
Unknown thread crash with x86 thread state (32 bit):
eax: 0x000000
Anyway, I have reinstalled stoftware. Made updates. Nothin' These programs all worked a couple of weeks ago just fine!
Also, I have been opening .docx files with no problem. I have Office 2004 with all updated converters and everything. But last week, suddenly I can't open .docx files anymore. I get a message about not having enough memory.
What gives? Do I have a virus? Is my Mac on it's death bed?

Hi Dave,
You're right, they're not Apple programs, but Apple was running them up until recently.
I "check for updates" all the time. In fact, just did again about 1/2 hour ago and updated to 10.6.2.
I also use the Windows updater hoping that the two companies try to help us go about doing our business (am i dreaming??)
I thought perhaps you'd say something like "ahhhh, yes THAT problem". But it seems I am an anomaly, at least for now.
I can't find a similar problem in these forums. So if you have any suggestions or ideas of where it is more appropriate to ask, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
jack

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Hi I've just bought a Macbook pro (2010) I bought it as I needed an older one running snow leopard. Its running on 10.6.4 but I need it with 10.6.1 or 10.6.2, does anyone know if I can install 10.6.1 or 2 on my Macbook??????

Hi I've just bought a Macbook pro (2010) I bought it as I needed an older one running snow leopard. Its running on 10.6.4 but I need it with 10.6.1 or 10.6.2, does anyone know if I can install 10.6.1 or 2 on my Macbook??????
This is because I have a copy of Protools I want to run on it and it has to be 10.6.1 or 10.6.2
Help I'm desperate!!

The 2010 MBPs came installed with either 10.6.3, or 10.6.4 later in their lifespan. Earlier versions of the OS may not have the correct drivers for the Mac's hardware.
Ultimately, you might be better off upgrading your copy of Pro Tools, or updating the Mac to Yosemite and running Logic Pro X.

IMovie is bringing Snow Leopard to its knees

Well, so far it seems that Snow Leopard is snappy as long as it's not being used much. Once you start using some heavy applications - you'll get more beachball than you've ever seen.
I've tried to import a movie from my HD camcorder today. The movie is about 10 minutes long. It took about 10 minutes to import it into the latest iMovie, but while importing it, Snow Leopard became basically impossible to use: Safari would freeze up and beachball all the time, flash movies in it wouldn't play at all (or would play like a frame every 5-10 seconds), switching between applications takes half-a-minute.
So I launched Activity Monitor (which alone took about a minute). iMovie was taking the most memory - about 245 megabytes. At the same time Memory tab would show that there are over 2 gigabytes of "Active" memory (meaning being actively used). When I summed up all used memory from Activity monitor - I got just under 1G. But Activity Monitor is showing that there's also about 1 gigabyte _in swap_ already! And that's on a 4 gigabyte MacBook Pro, with nothing running except for Safari, Mail and iMovie! Where's all the memory gone?
And that's not just while importing the movie, but also when trying to do anything with it. After awhile iMovie simply freezes completely, so that I have to basically Force-Quit it.
So far it seems like there's either some severe memory leakage going on, or Snow Leopard dedicates ALL available memory to a disk cache, giving the cache the highest priority, while reducing the amount of memory available to applications.
Besides that, there always seems to be the "mds" process always doing something - even when there's no other activity in the system. It always takes about 10-20% of CPU time, and almost always working with the hard drive.
P.S. I've force-quit iMovie about 2 minutes ago, and the icon in Dock was not showing it as a "running" application for about as long, and only now I've got a message from Snow Leopard that iMovie stopped responding... 8-O It's not been running for almost 2 minutes now, why do I get this message now, 2 minutes after it's been killed???

but now it is going like a fair and is a really good improvement from 06.
iMovie 09 uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.
iMovie 06 and iDVD 09 is a "lossless" combination and my DVD's look perfect!
iMovie 09 is a wonderful program assuming that you're using it for what it was designed to do, assemble videos to share on the Internet.

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.

Using snow leopard on external hard drive w/Mountain Lion OS Mac

I need to use Snow Leopard in order to use some expensive software that will not work in Lion or Mountain Lion. All of our computers have been upgraded to Mountain Lion, whcih doesn't support Rosetta. I was able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive and it boots up fine from another computer (that is not mine) that has Snow Leopard as its OS.
But when I boot up from my MacBook Pro (running Mountain Lion) and from my Macbook Air (also running Mountain Lion), I can't seem to do it. I hold the "option" key when starting and I get the option to start from the computer's HD or from the external firewire Snow Leopard drive. When I choose the Snow Leopard drive, it crashes and gives me that black screen with the kernel (?) message in several languages that I need to hold down the Power key to turn off the computer and reboot.
How can I get my MacBook Pro or my MacBook Air to boot up from the Snow Leopard external hard drive? (Once again, it DOES work with a Mac that has Snow Leopard as its OS).

Richard Signes2 wrote:
The question is: How do I start up my MacBook Air (or MacBook Pro) from an external FireWire Bootable hard drive with Snow Leopard on it? When I start up either one with the "option" key pressed, I get the option to start up with the external Snow Leopard hard drive, but when I select it, it crashes, as described above.
You can't if the Mac is a Late 2011 and later, perhaps if it's a Early 2011 (as some came with 10.6 and some with 10.7) and it should be possible for all Intel Mac's earlier than Early 2011.
Also, like what has occurred in the past, Apple does eventually issues a firmware update in later OS X versions so that earlier OS X versions, despite the Mac previously being able to boot from them, won't any longer. However far as I know Apple hasn't done this quite yet, but will one day.
Baring those issues, if you installed 10.6 on a external drive using a machine specific black/gray disk from another Mac, it has hardware drivers for that model/year of Mac only.
If you used the 10.6 white retail disks from Apple, it only has hardware drivers for all previous Intel Mac's that came originally with 10.6.2 or earlier from the factory. Mac's with 10.6.3 or later on the drive from the factory have different hardware drivers, thus not on the 10.6.3 white retail disk.
To find out what OS X version came on your machines, use the free MacTracker and use your model indentifier in the Apple menu More > Info (aka System Profiler)
So for those Mac's that originally came with 10.6.3 or later, machine specific disks must be gotten from Apple, or if your really talented, it's possible to create a univeral 10.6-10.6.8 install disk by combing the 10.6.3 image with the 10.6.8 combo update which will boot on any Intel Mac if the firmware permits and the hardware drivers are compable.
There is a method to bypass the firmware and install on Mac's that are Early 2011/Late 2011 via Target Disk Mode, or via taking the drive out of the machine as some Late 2011's use the same hardware drivers as the Early 2011 machines (only a processor bump basically)
How to revert your Mac to Snow Leopard
For the MacAir, you can install 10.6 via a USB thumb drive, of course provided it has the hardware drivers.
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
So in your case you likely should be rather looking at running Snow Leopard in a virtual machine program in Mountain Lion, which MichealLax over at MacRumors has perfected a technique.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

Cannot install snow leopard in macbook pro early 2011. disk is rejected. what do I do?

Unable to install snow leopard in macbook pro early 2011. When I put in the disk, the computer does not accept it. What can I do?

lord1908,
some Early 2011 MacBook Pros originally came with Snow Leopard installed, and some originally came with Lion installed. If yours originally came with Snow Leopard installed, then you should be able to install Snow Leopard from its model-specific grey Mac OS X Install DVD. (The white retail Snow Leopard DVD can’t be used with it; it was made for use with earlier models, which originally came with either Tiger or Leopard installed.) If yours originally came with Lion installed, then it won’t accept any Snow Leopard DVD; instead, you’d be able to use OS X Internet Recovery to download and install its original version of Lion from Apple’s servers.

Trying to re-install Snow Leopard over Lion and Macbook Pro is beeping like a memory failure

I installed Lion on my work 15" MacBook Pro i7 to give it a go, and it's not working with the system we use for Active Directory login, so I need to roll back to Snow Leopard.
I don't have a Time Machine backup, but I have pulled all the data I need from the machine, and have wiped the hard disk ready to reinstall Snow Leopard.
I have a retail copy of Snow Leopard that I've recently used successfully for fresh installs on other machines, but now once I insert the DVD into this machine that's had Lion on it, it's not responding and just making alarming BEEP BEEP BEEP noises.
I googled that and it might be bad RAM (possible, but unlikely? the machine has been running very well up until now)
I've wiped the PRAM, but the instructions for wiping the SMC are a bit cryptic for these machines ...
Does anyone have any clues as to what might be causing this? A firmware issue of some sort?
Maybe the hidden EFI partition on the drive won't let you install Snow Leopard over a disk that's had Lion?

Might be some useful info here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1175934
" I used target disk mode to install Snow Leopard on its partition. I used a friends Macbook Pro, but I put my machine into target disk mode and ran the installer from his user account and optical drive. From a couple things I read online, it seems that Apple recommends putting the other machine in target disk mode and doing it the other way around. I guess some critical files might not have been installed? I also used a retail copy of Snow Leopard instead of my grey recovery disk, so that might be it too. "
"Your machine is newer than the retail copy of Snow Leopard. Use the restore disks it came with.
The installation will need to be done from your machine. You may need to do a net install, so look at "Remote Install Mac OS X" in Utilities."
I'm currently installing from the macbook firewired to the other machine as recommended so hopefully that might help

Will The Genius Bar Install Snow Leopard in 2014?

I have an intel-based MacBook Pro from 2009 (I think) that is running 10.5 and I'd like to upgrade to Mavericks.
If I make a genius bar appointment, will the tech there install Snow Leopard for me (I'd pay for Snow Leopard) as opposed to me ordering a disk from Apple?
Thanks,
K

Call them and ask, although they may not have the retail media available (and otherwise would only install it for you if part of a hardware repair and if that was the original OS for your machine). Either way, they will charge you for the media, and if they do it, they will likely charge for time as well.
The disc is only $20 - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard and its not hard to upgrade yourself. Just make sure, as always, to make a full backup before attempting any system changes.

Will updating to Snow Leopard come with Quicktime Pro?

I was just curious.

No, QuickTime X does not have all the features of QT 7 Pro. The latter is a real swiss army knife, the former is leaner.
If you have a QT 7 Pro key, you can use QT 7 Pro on Snow Leopard, with its functionality. QT 7 is an optional install on Snow Leopard, but if you use all of its features, you'll probably want it. If you're mostly doing playback, you may not.

Snow Leopard and Canon MX860 ... More help please!

I've followed various threads concerning Snow Leopard and its incompatibility with the Canon MX860 printer/scanner. I have now downloaded the latest printer driver from Canon and the printer functions seem to work normally now on my wireless network.
I have some connectivity with the scanner, but the only way I can get it to scan is by going through System Preferences - if I try going via the "Canon Solution Menu" I get the error message "Cannot communicate with the scanner". Also, on the MX860's display panel the only option shown is the USB connection - it doesn't offer any PCs so, I guess, it's not finding my wireless network, even though the printer part of the machine is.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Thanks.

Hi,
I am running Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.7 on a MacBook3,1 with a wireless network using an AirPort Extreme. I was able to print wirelessly to my new Canon Pixma MX860, but my Macbook was unable to communicate with the MX860 scanner. Interestingly, though, the MX860 scanner could communicate just fine the other way with my Macbook because I was able to manually scan from the MX860 console and have scans wirelessly sent as PDFs to my Macbook.
Here's what I did to scan wirelessly to the MX860.
I used Easy Install from the accompanying Canon Pixma MX860 Setup CD-Rom disk *version U1.4* (purchased the MX860 on March 22, 2010) and followed all of the setup instructions in the Getting Started for Mac manual. In my case, I have a wireless LAN network with one access point, the Airport Extreme, but I would follow the instructions that are appropriate for your setup.
I went to the Canon MX860 driver page http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDet ailTabAct&fcategoryid=334&modelid=18121 and selected the MAC OS system files from the drop-down menu.
I downloaded:
_*MX860 series Scanner Driver Ver. 14.11.1*_ (Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6)
mx860sosxsd14111ea8-2.dmg
(I didn't remember this file from the Easy Install, and I was unable to select this from the Navigator EX Scan menu, so I figured there was something wrong with it)
_*MP Navigator EX Ver. 2.1.2*_ (Mac OS X 10.2/10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6)
mpnexosx212ea8-2.dmg
(The version that came with the CD-Rom was an older version, 2.1.0, I think)
I installed both the Scanner Driver and the updated MP Navigator EX. The computer restarted after installing each program, so there were two restarts.
I opened the Solution Menu from the dock, chose Scan/Import Photos or Documents from the menu, and the Solution Menu opened MP Navigator EX (now version 2.1.2). From the MP Navigator Ex menu, I chose Scan/Import Photos/Documents (Platen), selected the Document Type, and voila, perfect wireless platen scans. When I checked the "Use the Scanner Driver" box, the Scanner Driver brought up more detailed scanning options. I was also able to scan a stack of documents using the ADF.
I know that this is a Snow Leopard thread, but I came across this thread when I did a search on exactly the same problem, so I wanted to post my solution in case it helps others. I think that the solution to your problem should be similar. If the two downloads specifically mentioned above do not help, perhaps try downloading and installing all of the other most up-to-date drivers/software on the Canon 860 page until something works.

10.5.8(Leopard) to 10.6.3(Snow Leopard)

Can I upgrade directly from 10.5.8(Leopard) to 10.6.3(Snow Leopard)

Oh ok... This is what I downloaded http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1018
That's not the Combo version. Install Snow Leopard from its DVD, then use Software Update. That will get all the required updates.

Shall i delete snow leopard now I have Lion Os X?

I have updated my 2010 MacBook Pro (15") to Lion from Snow Leopard. Its not running as fast as I'd hoped, so would it speed up if I were to delete the original SnowLeopard, and if so, how would I go about doing this? Thanks

Did you upgrade to Lion or install it on a separate partition?
If you upgraded then Lion will have replaced Snow Leopard and there will be nothing to remove.
If Snow Leopard is on a separate partition on your hard drive it shouldn't have any impact on the performance of Lion. To improve the performance of Lion you'll likely need to look at adding new Ram.

Time Machine in Lion, restore in Snow Leopard

Does anyone know if I use Time Machine to backup my documents and applications within Lion, re-install Snow Leopard and its apps from the disks that came with my iMac whether Time Machine in Snow Leopard will be able to use the backup I made in Lion to restore my files? I am worried about backward compatibility and I have to "downgrade" back to Snow Leopard.
I am running a 27" screen iMac.

I had the same question ..... take a look at the discussion linked below... for a comprehensive explanation on the same.
~n~
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3225835?tstart=0

Can I share files between dual-boot Snow Leopard and Leopard partitions?

Apparently one of the cool new features of Snow Leopard is its file system compression. That has me wondering though, if I want to have a single drive with two partitions and install Snow Leopard on one partition and Leopard one the other will I be able to mount the SL partition from Leopard and read/edit files without causing problems?
It seems like that would not be possible but I thought I'd throw it out here to see if anyone has tried.

As far as I can tell, Apple has applied compression to most of the system executable files in Snow Leopard. However they do not appear to apply it to data files for any applications that I have looked at.
Apples documentation for ditto (go to terminal and type "man ditto" at the prompt, without the quotes) states:
--hfsCompression
When copying files or extracting content from an archive, if the destination is an HFS+
volume that supports compression, all the content will be compressed if appropriate. >This
is only supported on Mac OS X 10.6 or later, and is only intended to be used in >installa-tion installation
tion and backup scenarios that involve system files. Since files using HFS+ compression
are not readable on versions of Mac OS X earlier than 10.6, this flag should not be >used
when dealing with non-system files or other user-generated content.

Support for iCloud under Snow Leopard

Will there be support for iCloud
under Snow Leopard?

Its not really support for icloud, but you can successfully sync icloud calendar to ical in snow leopard.
http://skangerland.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-get-ical-with-icloud-working-in.h tml
It's working for me syncing both ways between iphone iOS 5.1 and OSX 10.6.8 / iCal 4.0.4

Is Snow Leopard on its death bed?

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