Lion and Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard, oh my!

My iMac does not support OS X Mountain Lion, but it does support Lion; is there anyway to upgrade to Lion?  In the app store I can't find a way to download Lion now that Mountain Lion is available.  Currently running Snow Leopard.  Want Lion so that I can back everything up on iCloud.

Hi Maxemi,
Try this link:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4286784
Cheers,
GB

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  • I need to have both Snow leopard and Lion...Mountain lion running on my iMac.  How do I install Lion or Mountain lion on an Ext H D and boot from it?

       My software is obsolete (and now dead) in 10.7 so I need to keep Snow leopard alive to run that- but now things like TurboTax are dropping support for 10.6 or lower and I have to have lion or Mountain Lion available.  I actually downloaded Lion onto a thumb drive but never installed it when I found out that it would immedaitely render all my FreeHand files inaccessible (years of work!),  Now that I am forced to have an OS above 10.6 I was hoping I could install whichever--Lion or Mountain Lion onto an external hard drive and figure  out how to boot from that (found  something in archives I think, but I need words of one syllable or less).  This way I could, ideally, boot from either the External hard drive in the higher OS when needed, or from the internal hard drive when I need to use Snow leopard.  There is a long story here, but I think this is the gist.  I wasn not sure if this should be asked here or in either Lion or Mountain Lion (both of which I have, essentially, ignored since I would not be moving up until I could figure out how to access those old files of forms and drawings00but now I have no choice.  I am panicking now that I HAVE to make the move anbd cannot afford to buy another  Mac just to keep two separately running.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  i asked Apple when Lion came out and they said there was no way to partition (even if I KNEW how to do that) the haaard drive and install both on my iMac-- but I "think" this is a bit different and possible???   Thanks  (once/if I figure this out, I need to figure out how to back-up but that is another matter)

    You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
    Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
    Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
    If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
    Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
    Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
    Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
    Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
    We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
    Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

  • Why is searching so much slower in both Lion and Mountain Lion than Snow Leopard?

    Hi, I use Snow Leopard run on several Mac Pros to perform multidimensional time-lapse-imaging in our lab. Snow Leopard provides instantaneous (seconds) searching for folders containing the image sequences I require for analysis (distributed across 4 x 2TB hard drives- images are saved under the structure Time\Position, and for analysis I need to retrieve all folders with the same Position label). Lion and Mountain Lion either fail to search or are painfully slow. For analysis I use internal hard drives connected as external volumes via USB and I suspect this might be part of the problem, however the same setup works flawlessly with Snow Leopard.
    This problem is becoming very frustrating as I can’t figure out what has changed, or whether I am overlooking something obvious. I installed Lion on my MacBook Pro over 6 months ago which is when I discovered this problem and had to reinstall Snow Leopard. At that time I had hoped that the next OS might provide a better search function for our use, but after some testing it seems the same. To search through folders manually takes over 10 x as long as using a simple search in Snow Leopard. Can anyone provide me any advice as to what might be causing this problem and whether there might be a solution? I’ve tried a few free searching tools from the app store, but these do not perform any better than searching in Finder. I would obviously prefer to be able to invest in new Macs in the future which run the most current OS without having to install Snow Leopard on them all (if this is even possible without future models without causing compatibility problems).
    Many thanks for reading and for any advice you can give me.
    Oli

    Hi Linc,
    mdworker (user: _spotlight) was top of the list with about 5.4% CPU (this was every now and then knocked down by Safari Web Content. The other values you asked abou weret: % User - 3.5, % System - 3.35, % Idle 93.5.
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    Disk Activity - Data read/sec - 29.3 MB/s and Data written/sec - 16 KB/s.
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    01/08/2012 09:42:06.811 SecurityAgent[120]: MacBuddy was run = 0
    01/08/2012 09:42:06.836 SecurityAgent[120]: User info context values set for USER
    01/08/2012 09:42:06.953 coreaudiod[122]: 2012-08-01 09:42:06.952319 AM [AirPlay] Started browsing for _airplay._tcp.
    01/08/2012 09:42:06.953 coreaudiod[122]: 2012-08-01 09:42:06.952750 AM [AirPlay] Started browsing for _raop._tcp.
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.090 loginwindow[46]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.109 loginwindow[46]: USER_PROCESS: 46 console
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.450 UserEventAgent[112]: cannot find useragent 1102
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.506 fseventsd[52]: Logging disabled completely for device:1: /Volumes/Recovery HD
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.551 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[128]: (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.554 loginwindow[46]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated
    01/08/2012 09:42:07.560 distnoted[132]: # distnote server agent  absolute time: 22.799204385   civil time: Wed Aug  1 09:42:07 2012   pid: 132 uid: 501  root: no
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.106 com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Session 100005 created
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.507 WindowServer[69]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.617 WindowServer[69]: Display 0x04280300: MappedDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 2, "iMac"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.620 BezelServices 235.55[46]: -[DriverServices sendPreferencesToDevice:resetDefaults:] error: classPrefID (null), classPrefs (null)
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.797 NetworkBrowserAgent[155]: Starting NetworkBrowserAgent
    01/08/2012 09:42:08.835 WindowServer[69]: kCGErrorNotImplemented: receive_notification: CPXSetEventFilter failed
    01/08/2012 09:42:11.335 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[128]: ([email protected][184]) Exited with code: 2
    01/08/2012 09:42:11.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=183[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
    01/08/2012 09:42:11.349 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[128]: (com.apple.afpstat-qfa[181]) Exited with code: 2
    01/08/2012 09:42:11.403 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[128]: (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[172]) Exited with code: 255
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    01/08/2012 09:42:18.000 kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 39574D35314C474C20202020 0x13fd 0x1340 0x210
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    01/08/2012 09:42:19.000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
    01/08/2012 09:42:19.000 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
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    01/08/2012 09:42:20.567 airportd[25]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Oli Network”. Bailing on auto-join.
    01/08/2012 09:42:20.583 airportd[25]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Oli Network”. Bailing on auto-join.
    01/08/2012 09:42:20.598 airportd[25]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Oli Network”. Bailing on auto-join.
    01/08/2012 09:42:20.613 airportd[25]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Oli Network”. Bailing on auto-join.
    01/08/2012 09:42:20.928 awacsd[61]: Exiting
    01/08/2012 09:42:25.207 configd[18]: network changed: v4(en1+:192.168.0.4) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
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    01/08/2012 09:42:25.760 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication[116]) Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing
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    01/08/2012 09:42:31.229 CalendarAgent[178]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.exchange.queue] [error = Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1013 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1013.)" UserInfo=0x7fc53acaa530 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=DELETEDEWS/Exchange.asmx, CalFailedOperationKey=<CalExchangeSyncAccountOperation: 0x7fc53bc188e0>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=DEKETEDEWS/Exchange.asmx}]
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    01/08/2012 09:48:31.539 CVMServer[78]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.
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  • I am ready to dump mountain lion and go back to snow leopard

    Can someone stop me? I am so frustrated with lion and now mountain lion that I am actually looking at dumping the OS X 10.8 and reverting back to snow leopard.
    I have a small office with three mac machines. I have been a fan of the macs for many years, even though we have software for enigineering that requires a windows versions. I have several issues that will not go away on each machine. I have a table below that describes a few of the problems. These problems have left me and my staff with no trust that our work is safe (yes, we do backups and TM). Our work flow is no longer fluid or fun with mountain lion.
    Machine
    OS X issues
    Macbook 2009 5,0 running 10.7.3
    Graphics problems, extremely slow performance opening and closing files.
    Macbook Pro mid 2009, 5,1 now testing 10.8.3 beta
    Graphics problems, dropped WIFI, time machine corruption, very slow finder performance, CUDA performance issues, loads of lsboxd issues, spotlite runs indexing alot, Sync services still broken in mountain lion. Cannot keep the Adobe licensing for Creative Suite 4 activated. Fresh install of 10.8.2
    Macbook Pro Late 2011, running 10.8.2
    Graphics problems, flash problems, kernel panics after sleep, Kernel panics with VM Ware fusion 5.0.2, Memory relase issues after software quits, Very slow finder performance, Safari causes kernel panics. Any panic causes multiple versions of Office for mac 2011 autosaved files from one original file., spotlite indexing issues. Sync services still broken in mountain lion. Fresh install of 10.8.2
    I am normally a good troubleshooter and have resolved many issues so far. But they just cntiue and I am spending a lot of time resolving problems with the machine's OS that I could be using for productivity. I guess I feel like the old days as an engineer in an office where windows requires a near constant windows administrator.
    Is this just me whining? Is anyone else suffering through the OS X 10.7 and 10.8 issues?
    Somebady tell me I am crazy... I just want to get back to work.

    Some troubleshooting information.
    Isolating Issues
    Isolating an issue by using another user account
    Isolating issues in Mac OS X
    Safe Mode
    Safe Mode - About
    Basic Maintenance:
    Disk Utility
    Disk Utility Repair Permissions You Can Safely Ignore
    Reset NVRAM/PRAM
    Reset SMC
    General Maintenance Recommendations
    Safari Problems

  • Can I dual boot snow leopard and mountain lion if I've installed boot camp on my drive

    Can I dual boot snow leopard and mountain lion if I've installed boot camp on my drive

    Yes as I said before. If your model Mac came with Snow Leopard and you are now running Mt Lion and have Windows installed in a Boot Camp Partition all you have to do is make the Mt Lion partition smaller, take the free space and make it another Mac partition and you should be able to install Snow Leopard into that partition.
    I have Snow Leopard, Lion and Mt Lion installed on my MBP. No Windows in a Boot Camp partition because I run Windows XP in a Virtual Machine on both Lion and Mt Lion.

  • Can I dual boot Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion on one hard drive?

    I want to make a new partition and be able to boot to either OS. Is this possible, if so, how? I would think just make a new partition and install the dmg file to that new partition.

    @jimmyk11: AppleCare has actually informed me that "No - this MacBooPro9,1 cannot boot Snow Leopard".
    It originally came with lion 10.7.4 installed. I have since upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8 and (today, after a week or so of ML) I reverted to Lion 10.7.4. But now I find I can no longer boot into Lion 10.7.4 from my external FW800 drive (for troubleshooting and housekeeping). So it looks as if the "boot problems" are not confined to Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
    Interestingly, I can use this same external drive to boot my iMac (10.7.4) and my older MBP8,3 (10.8) into 10.7.4 - but not the newer MBP9,1.
    The MBP9,1 with Lion and Mountain Lion is turning into a disaster when it comes to external booting. If I could, I'd demand a return and a refund. After bottle-feeding Lion for a year, 10.7.4 seems basically stable and can still boot into Snow Leopard and Lion from my external drives if needed. But now I see I have a worse problem: Crippled Hardware. I suspect this bug needs a firmware update - if it is fixable at all.

  • Install boot camp snow leopard and mountain lion

    Is it possible to install boot camp on a 2009 Mac Pro to run both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion? The startup drive is already partitioned. I need to run two different versions of Final Cut Studio (and all the accompanying apps) and this seems the best way to keep them segregated. I know that I can run them both in Snow Leopard, but I have two different sets of Motion templates which need to be accessed.

    Alrighty, I do appreciate your time. I had already tried parallels and that was a huge waste of time. You blow away their support, by the way.
    Just to confirm assumptions before I do this, sorry, I'm an engineer.
    1. The startup drive is partitioned already.
    2. Partition (1) contains Snow Leopard and a user account.
    3. Partition (2) currently contains a media library, does not have an OS on it, and has 232 GB free.
    4. I will install Mountain Lion on partition 2 using the dmg downloaded from the app store.
    5. That partition will then become the startup drive when using mountain lion.
    6. Partition 2 will have its own user account, applications, etc.
    Almost forgot. Do I need to erase and install on that partition or can I simply install? After this I owe you a beer.

  • HT204053 I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing, I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose!

    I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing (supported by MobileMe), I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose! The other thing they don't tell you is that Mountain Lion disables OfficeMac, and I am considering uninstalling it for that reason - do I get my money back?!

    You stated; "Mountain Lion disables OfficeMac"
    That is not true.
    Mountain Lion does not have Rosetta so it is not capable of executing PowerPC code. If you have MS Office 2004 that is coded in PowerPC code and will not run in Mountain Lion. What you need to do is upgrade to an Intel version of Office.
    Allan

  • Can I erase the boot camp partition and dual boot snow leopard and mountain lion instead

    Can I erase the boot camp partition and dual boot snow leopard and mountain lion instead

    Please don't double post. Look at your other thread.
    If you want to get rid of Windows and the BC partition use the Boot Camp assistant program to remove the Win/BC partition. Don't do it manually with Disk Utility Use the BC A program.

  • Why can a person buy and/or download Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion but not Mavericks???

    I am running OS X Lion on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro with 4GB of ram and a 160GB HDD. I was going to download Mavericks from the app store but waited to long. Now that Yosemite is out Mavericks has disappeared from the app store. WHY? A person can buy and/or download Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion but not Mavericks??? And the kicker is that it was FREE!!! I just wanted to load Mavericks on my MacBook Pro to see how it performs. If I could live with any slow downs or quirks, I'd leave it installed. If not, I'd roll my system back. Apple's policy of ramrodding unstable product down our throat is BS. I don't want to use Yosemite until it has become more stable!

    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 Mavericks if your computer meets the requirements.
    Upgrading to Lion
    If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mavericks, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
    You can purchase Lion at the Online Apple Store. 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.
    Upgrading to Mountain Lion
    To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase a redemption code at the Online Apple Store: OS X Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. Use the code to redeem a download of Mountain Lion from the App Store. 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.

  • I have a macbook pro and the software with snow leopard only has upgraded to 10.5.8, do I need to purchase mountain lion to upgrade to 10.6.8?

    I have a macbook pro and the software with snow leopard only has upgraded to 10.5.8, do I need to purchase mountain lion to upgrade to 10.6.8?

    Your machine likely can't handle Mountain Lion 10.8 nor 10.7, if it does it will run slow and very higly likely a lot of your third party software and drivers for printers and scanners won't function anymore.
    It's because your 10.5 era (or earlier) machine is rather dated, hardware has advanced and is faster, the newer OS X versions have gotten bloated.
    I do recommend you call Apple via phone and order the 10.6.3 white retail disks, backup your personal data off the 10.5.8 Mac to a external storage drive and when the disk arrives, stick it in and run the upgrade installer.
    Once that's finished, reboot and use Software Update to get to 10.6.8 and stay there. You can buy stuff from AppStore, just don't upgrade to 10.8 (or 10.7) as thats when you'll have issues.
    10.6 should run your currrently installed PPC software and hardware drivers. But 10.7/10.8 will not.
    10.6 is receiving security and other updates from Apple as more than 50% of OSX users are still on it.
    Most commonly used backup methods
    Things to consider before upgrading OS X

  • Will CS5 work with Max OSX Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion?

    Will CS5 work with Max OSX Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion?

    Hi,
    You can check system requirement for CS5 in link : http://www.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/creativesuite/mastercollection5/systemreqs .html
    Regards,
    Jatin Dembla

  • I currently run Mac Pro with three hard drives. Can I dual boot or even triple boot with Snow Leaopard on one drive and Mountain Lion or Lion on others?

    I currently run Mac Pro with three hard drives. Can I dual boot or even triple boot with Snow Leopard on one drive and Mountain Lion or Lion on others?
    I need to keep Snow Leopard so that I can run some old softward.

    If you are careful you can put at least two on one drive, having Recovery from Lion and Mountain Lion on their own drives though.
    CCC can clone Lion Recovery - great for moving or backup.

  • Copying and Moving Mail from Snow Leopard to Lion

    Hello
    What is the best way to move mail data from a Snow Leopard machine to a Lion machine?
    My mail data is presently on my iMac which is running Snow Leopard. I want to copy and move this mail to my new MacBook Air that came installed with Lion (not an upgrade from Snow Leopard).
    In the past, it was just a matter of copying the "mail" folder in the library and the plist and pasting them in the same location on the new machine. However, I have read that this does not work any more.
    What is the best way to do this?
    Looking forward to some guidance.
    Cheers!
    Darren
    Tokyo

    Hi ozdazza,
    I have managed to solve the problem and move all my emails from my old mac running 10.5.8 to my new mac running 10.7.2 with the following steps. Please note that in order for these to work, you need to have copy of your old email accounts either at your new mac desktop or in your time machine (or any external HD connected to your new mac)
    1- In my new mac, I created email accounts similar to the ones in my old mac (names and setting),
    2- I copied my old emails (one email account at a time so I do not get confused) and placed  it on my new mac desktop. Please note that inbox messages in OS 10.5.X are stored in user/library/mail/pop.file/inbox.mbox. And outbox messages are stores in user/library/mail/pop.file/outbox.mbox and so forth. For copying messages in your inbox the file you should copy to your desktop is the inbox.mbox NOT the mail file or NOT the pop file.
    3- Open your mail app in your new mac and chose “import mailboxes” under file menu.
    4- Chose import data from “Apple Mail” which is the first choice.
    5- Chose the inbox.mbox file to be imported.
    6- After the importing process finish, you will see all your messages in a new folder called “Import” in your mailboxes column within your new mail app.
    7- Now click on that import box to display all your messages in the middle column in your email app.
    8- Highlight all the messages by clicking comm+A
    9- Drag all the highlighted messages to your newly created inbox.
    10- After the drag&drop process finished, you can delete the import box.
    Above process can be done with the sent.mbox as well, but in such process you use the sent.mbox for old email account and drag its messages (step 9) to the sent file in your new email account box.
    I had managed to move or transfer 3 emails account each one with 2 boxes (inbox and sentbox) with a total size of over 8GB in only less than 10 minutes.
    The key problem in all my previous import attempts is that I was importing the wrong file and trying to place it in the wrong place.
    I hope above process works well for you as it did for me.

  • I am new to mac's and have upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion but......

    I am new to mac's and have upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion but not all my application will work. Is it save to reinstall using original snow leopard dvd and does it wipe all my other application like apature? I am in a panic over this, any help!!
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