My Snow Leopard Fix...Thought we lost everything!

Ok, here's the background post:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143287&tstart=285
OK, so we started off calling Apple. They said erase everything. Not an option for us....the machine had too much important data on it.
So, I purchased a 500 gig external drive, partitioned it, did a clean install of SL on it through the black macbook, and then booted from the external drive. From there we could access all my girlfriends files and transfer them to the external drive. We had our data back! From there we erased the macbook's hard drive, did a clean install of SL, and then proceeded to put all of her files back on.
Then, we ran into the iLife problem. Snow Leopard doesn't contain the iLife apps. So we recovered her bundled install discs that came with her mac, and chose "install bundled software." That took care of the iLife apps. Finally, everything was looking good.
We're installing Microsoft Office 2008 now and updating it. It's getting back to they way it was before this "simple upgrade to Snow Leopard." If there's one piece of advice I can give anyone, it's BACK UP EVERYTHING before installing SL, and an external drive is worth it's weight in gold, especially if you've got very important data.
The funniest part; Apple told us everything was lost and there was NO fix. I'm not a computer tech, and I only switched to mac two years ago, and we figured it out just fine. And so far SL is running fine on both mine and my girlfriends macbooks.
Don't give up!
R!

Michaeldb wrote:
Back Up, Back Up, Back Up...When, When, When. Problem with Time Machine is remembering to connect external drive ( would help if Apple let you use network storage drive).
It does. You can back-up to a Time Capsule; a hard drive on another Mac running Leopard or Snow on the same local network; and, probably, a USB drive attached to an Airport Extreme (although that's technically unsupported, it works fine in most cases.
Many on line back up services available that automatically and constantly back up all selected data via internet, and encrypt for privacy all in the background. Instant access to restore 24/7 365. I use mozy.com with no charge at all.
Can you restore your entire system from them, in a single operation?

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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968abf47 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8fdbf __CFRunLoopRun + 2447
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c947a4 CFRunLoopRun + 84
5 com.apple.QTKit 0x92547727 QTCALayerRendererPendingQWorkLoop + 586
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 12:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ab7da machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968abf47 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8fdbf __CFRunLoopRun + 2447
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c947a4 CFRunLoopRun + 84
5 com.apple.QTKit 0x925fbd5b QTVisualContextImageProviderWorkLoop + 114
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xffffffff ebx: 0x91d877df ecx: 0xa0170cac edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x00131b87 esi: 0x008b846c ebp: 0xbfffdfb8 esp: 0xbfffdf70
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x91d8780f cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000261

Hello All:
After reading many of the posts here and elsewhere in the discussions, I thought I'd add my own experience because nothing I've read sounds quite this bizarre. I installed Snow Leopard 3 days ago an everything seemed to be working fine. That lasted about 48 hours. Yesterday, I was copying the first CD of an audiobook, and the program froze. I restarted the computer and at the desktop, there was a Finder crash report (send to Apple). Before I could punch the button, the Finder attempted to relaunch, and another report came up. And another. And another. I'm not sure if the reports went to Apple, but as you'll see, if they did, Apple knows me pretty well by now.
I got the Shutdown panel to come up while this was going on and shut the computer down. When I rebooted, the same thing happened. So I started up from the Snow Leopard Install disk and ran Permission repair and Disk repair. Both showed no problems needing repair. Rebooted. Same thing.
The process was really fast. In the time it took me to shut down, 8 or 10 relaunches and 8 or 10 crash reports. So I started up from Disk Warrior, Snow Leopard version, rebuilt the directory and and checked all the files. No anomalies. Rebooted, and the same thing happened.
Of course, in my zeal to make this horror go away, I had completely forgotten about Safe Boot. So I did that, and went to the Preferences folder to toss com.apple.finder.plist. What a surprise. There were 30 or 40 (or maybe even 50) of those files, all except the most recent one suffixed with a number (example: com.apple.finder.plistx37g8d0 - that's not one of the real numbers). (I'm sure a Unix person could probably quickly explain this, but I thought it was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It does seem clear that Finder was making a new plist every time it tried to relaunch. But it wasn't deleting any of the old ones.)
So I scrolled through screen after screen, selected and deleted them all. Rebooted and the computer came back. More or less. Now I seem to be experiencing random crashes, especially QuickLook when I'm in the middle of Spotlight. Also, some other crashes with names I don't even recognize because (I'm guessing) I'm not supposed to know they exist. Today those crashes seem to be slightly fewer (but not completely absent). And there were absolutely no crashes for the first 48 hours I used the new operating system. All my third party software was updated before I installed Snow Leopard.
I guess I'm not really asking for advice (but it would be appreciated, none the less). I could reinstall Snow Leopard, but from what I've read in the forums, that often does not seem to help very much. Even though, on this computer, I won't be able to enjoy 64-bit goodness, there are reasons I really don't want to go back to Leopard. First, the new system has things I like - upgrade to Automator, which I use a lot, new Services and others. Second, and more importantly, at least 2 of the third party apps I use a lot have revised upward to 10.6 only. So I guess I'll wait and hope for the best. But I must say, in 20 years of using Macs I've never come across anything quite this strange.
Sorry to bore you all by being so long-winded, but I thought that if anyone else ran into this weird situation, they might enjoy knowing they aren't the only ones.
John

Downgrade Lion to Leopard and upgrade Leopard Lion without Snow Leopard CD

Hey guys,
Can I upgrade from Leopard to Lion without the Snow Leopard CD? I lost it.. And I want Lion or Snow Leopard back due to an image on my Time Capsule that Leopard doens't see.
I ran under Lion but wasn't happy with some of the features. I decided that I wanted to downgrade to either Leopard or Snow Leopard.
I made a back up on my Time Capsule. After it said Last back up 1 min ago I inserted my original CD (Leopard) since I couldn't find the Snow Leopard CD. I completed the reinstallation of MAC OS X and it ran super smoothly. Now Leopard didn't recognize my image (ofcourse since it was Lion) and all the work was done for nothing..
Now I really want to get back on Snow Leopard or Lion so I can reinstate my image and thus all programs and files that I now miss...
Problem: I don't have the Snow Leopard CD..... I can't download Snow Leopard and I can't download Lion because I don't have Snow Leopard... But I paid for both and I don't really want to buy both again just because I made a tiny mistake.
Any of you guys know how I can fix this??
I am now running version MAC OS X 10.5.8 and I'm getting a little annoyed! Lion was AWESOME compared to this version
Cheers!!
Max

Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard 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. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard (see below.) I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1.
If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.
I would assume the above may work to downgrade to Leopard by using the Leopard DVD instead of the Snow Leopard one.
If you purchased Snow Leopard then you should have the DVD. If not, then you might call AppleCare about a replacement or simply repurchase it.

Applescript Crashing in Snow Leopard

Just updated to Snow Leopard on my black MacBook - everything going surprisingly well considering the age of the machine. However, I'm having a problem with all of my Applescript apps and scripts crashing. Sometimes if I just select the "Reopen" option in the dialog box for the crash the app or script will run fine, sometimes I can run through that loop 10 times with a crash every time. I've tried recompiling all the apps - no luck. I'm an Applescript "dummy" so not sure what might be causing this or what to do to fix it.

Even the simplest scripts are crashing. For example, I have one installed in my login items in Accounts that sets the sound volume of the computer when I boot up (my wife works odd hours and I don't want to take a chance on unexpectedly chiming her awake, so there's also a shutdown script that sets the volume to 0 and shows a dialog box with buttons for "Restart," "Shutdown," and "Cancel." The first example is a simple one-liner: set volume 5. I don't have the computer with me right now, but the error message runs something along the line of the generic "Your application has quit unexpectedly" and offers buttons for "Ignore," "Reopen," and "Report."
Again, when one of these is invoked it almost always crashes on the first attempt since my OS upgrade. If I choose "Reopen" it may or may not run successfully, sometimes as often as 10 times (after which I usually say 'screw it - I've got better things to do!!').

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