Reinstalling Tiger from Leopard

Can I reinstall Tiger from Leopard without loosing any data? I would like to be able to use OS 9 again.
Thanks, Ken Thomson

If you have an Intel Mac, OS 9 (Classic) won't work in Tiger, either.

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Reinstalling Tiger from Leopard on a iMac G-5

Can I reinstall Tiger from Leopard on iMac G-5 without loosing data? I would like to use OS9 again.
Thanks. Ken Thomson

keep in mid that archive and install downgrade suggested above doesn't give you the option to preserve users settings. this means that you'll have to go through account setup again. You old home directory should be buried somewhere in the previous system folder (see this [link|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107297]).

Reinstall Tiger from Leopard

I upgraded to Leopard on my MacPro. Big mistake. Now Retrospect won't start up, Roxio Toast won't start up, Stuffit won't start up. Tried to reinstall but install won't start up. Font Book adds or subtracts fonts at will. Apple is NO HELP. I have been a Mac user over 20 years but my opinion of them has gone way down. How do I go back to Tiger?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Restore your backup.
If no backup, get a second SATA hard drive and install Tiger on that. The G5 supports two internal hard drives.
The programs you mentioned will work with Leopard, if you upgrade them to a certain version. In the future research your upgrade options before upgrading. And always backup your data before installing anything.
See my upgrade FAQ on other tips on how to be prepared when upgrading*:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Help reverting to Tiger from Leopard - No boot from CD

Hi there,
I am trying to revert to Tiger from Leopard on an Intel iMac that used to run Tiger. My plan is to wipe the drive and start fresh. Unfortunately, the computer will no longer start up from the Tiger installer DVD or an extrenal drive running Tiger. I am running 10.5.2. Has there been a ROM upgrade or something that prevents now Tiger from running? Any ideas?

Can I please ask a question.
I have leopard (10.5.2) installed on an intel Imac. I have just bought a Formac mini disk (160G USB) because I would like to install Tiger on it. When I bought the Imac it originally came with Tiger (Version 10.4.2) and the disk from what I am reading on these forums would indicate that it is a install disk rather than a retail version. The disk is grey and again I am assuming it is an intel install disk (don't know how to check).
Anyhow, in order to install Tiger onto the USB mini disk, I believe I need to boot up the from Tiger install disk and after the start chime begins hold down the 'C' button from some time until the Tiger install menu appears. My problem is that the Tiger install menu does not appear (tried this on several occasions) and it continues to boot up to Leopard.
Can someone please tell me if I am doing something wrong, or even what I am trying to do is able to be done. I think I have covered and put down all of the problems here ?
Appreciate any advice

Need help reverting to Tiger from Leopard

Last last year I purchased a new iMac that came with Tiger (version 10.4.10) installed. I set it up and everything worked great, including the wireless. Unfortunately, it also came with a Leopard install disk in the box, and, not realizing that Leopard is Apple's equivalent of Vista, I "upgraded" the machine to Leopard. My wireless has not worked well since, and, after waiting for several Leopard updates to "solve" the problem without apparent success, I think I just want to revert back to Tiger.
I was thinking the best thing to do is an Erase and Install using the 10.4.10 install disks that came with the computer. However, I believe that when I "upgraded" to Leopard, Mail 3 modified the mail format used by Mail 2, and similarly with Address Book. So my primary question is how to get my mail and address information back to Tiger. Does anyone know if I archive off my mailboxes from Leopard's Mail 3 in mbox format, will I then be able to successfully import them back into Tiger's Mail 2? Similarly, can I export Leopard Address Book information into vcards and then read them back into Tiger's Address Book? Or are there better ways of doing this?
Thanks in advance!

I have looked through and posted to the Leopard "Getting Online and Networking" forum for months now looking for a solution. I really don't want to go through the "it's the router's fault" discussion anymore with the posters who want to blame everybody but Apple for something that obviously showed up in Leopard. This includes those who somehow believe that only Apple implements the standards correctly and the rest of the world doesn't, so the rest of the world is at fault.
I am just hoping someone who has some knowledge about reverting can answer my original questions in this post about getting e-mail and address book information back into Tiger from Leopard.

Downgrading to Tiger from Leopard on a mac mini 2.0ghz

I just purchased a mac mini 2.0ghz that came with Leopard.
Since I am relatively new to the MAC world, I assumed that I could immediately replace Leopard with Tiger on the HD using a set of mac mini install discs I had previously purchased on eBay (I'm doing this because this mini was going to be used exclusively to run ProTools - which isn't Leopard compatible)
From the little bit I've read, it looks like I may have made a $800 mistake. Most places are saying that it it absolutely impossible to downgrade from Leopard to Tiger on this late model.
Is that really true? I just find it so hard to believe that the hardware and software are so tied together that you can't ever go 'backward' even if you want to.
Could someone please state clearly once and for all if there is any possible way to downgrade or do I need to throw my new mac mini in the proverbial trash can and chalk this one up for the experience?
Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
This issue was raised by another poster very recently (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1497891&tstart=0). Typically Macs cannot be booted from MacOS versions which predated the release of the hardware, or subsequent firmware update perhaps, but since Leopard was not released until after the current Core 2 Duo minis, it goes without saying that at least some of these systems did in fact have Tiger installed.
If Apple have made no hardware or firmware changes to the mini (and it's a big if, because typically that information is not made available), then Tiger should install and run fine on your system, proving only that the Tiger installer you have is actually from a 'late 2007' Intel mini.
The only way you'll know is to insert the Tiger installer you have, and boot the system holding the C key down (you will need a wired USB keyboard which is NOT one of the new aluminium type). If the system boots, then you should be able to do an install. Bear in mind that you will almost certainly get an error stating you cannot install that version of MacOS on the system because it will detect that you have a later version of MacOS already installed than on the install disk. That's normal. You can get around that by clicking the 'options' button on the installer and selecting 'erase and install', which wipes the hard drive and installs MacOS.
If the system will not boot from the Tiger install disk, then in effect that would confirm that you will not be able to regress the macOS version - at least not by any conventional means. There are always some who investigate and find ways to work around some of these limitations, so there may be an unofficial and unsupported workaround out there, but there would be no way to know how stable it would be, and whether you would be able to successfully update it.

Install left problems HOW CAN I GET BACK TO TIGER FROM LEOPARD?

so i upgraded from tiger to leopard, then i had a few problems, i.e. itunes would quit everytime i tried to delete a podcast, or editing multiple song info would make it crash. My ms word continously crashes as well as ichat.
So since i really need this maching working for school, can anyone tell me how to get back to tiger?
i tried an archive install and that did not work, i also tried creating a user acount and i know the problem lies within my primary user account, not other newly created accounts, i also tried removing cache and some plists so it would rebuild but still same problem.
So, CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO GET BACK TO TIGER WITHOUT LOSING ANY OF MY DATA? PLEASE?
THANKS

You can do an Archive & Install back to Tiger.

Reinstalling Tiger after Leopard

Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
So the only way I can get back to printing seems to be to reinstall Tiger. My question is - is there likely to be any problems or repercussions installing an older system over a newer one?
Many thanks,
Andy

Andrew Stewart4 wrote:
Quick question for you Apple experts!
I have loaded Leopard, and much as I have enjoyed the few days I've had it running, sadly, my TallyGenicom printer no longer works. I've e-mailed Tally and they say "IF we make a new driver we will let you know." (Very reassuring!)
So the only way I can get back to printing seems to be to reinstall Tiger. My question is - is there likely to be any problems or repercussions installing an older system over a newer one?
Many thanks,
Andy
How much does a new printer cost? Is your old printer something you cannot live without?
If you printer company is not going to provide support, I would dump them and get a modern printer that likes Leopard rather than going backwards just to accommodate a single item. There are printers that cost less than Leopard costs.

Small problem after reverting to Tiger from Leopard

I reverted to Tiger today from Leopard (did an archive and install), and everything is working fine, except the following unrelated issues:
1. In the Mail preferences dialog, I can only see the accounts pane. That is, none of the icons appear across the top of the window (i.e. Junk settings, filter settings, etc.), thereby preventing me from changing any settings other than accounts. Weird. In fact, the actual space where those icons go isn't even there -- the dialog box is actually titled "Accounts", even though I got there by selecting "Preferences from the menu".
2. When I go to the iChat menu in the menubar (the balloon icon) and select "buddy list", nothing happens. I have to first open iChat by clicking it in the dock in order to see my buddy list.
Anybody have any suggestions as to what might fix these minor issues?

figured it out........looks like parts of ichat were referencing the leopard version of ichat i still had in my archived directory. I deleted the leopard version of ichat, and all is good.

How do I switch back to Tiger from Leopard

I'm a producer and I own a I mac that i bought last august 07, that came with tiger and I life 06 or 07 on it. I recently had it serviced due to a kernal panic and the guy installed leopard, leopard doesn't come with i life and i really need i movie hd 6 again, what can i do???!! I still have the mac osx re-installation cd's that came in the box and my brother has a mac book pro with tiger on it, is it possible to use a firewire connection to transfer i life/i movie hd 6 from his to mine...i just need to know what my options are? I've only been using mac for a year and i'm totally stressed. Please help.

Using your brother's Mac to copy programs violates the Software Agreement. You have iLife on the installer disks that came with your Mac. You may need a program like Pacifist to extract it from the disk.
As a footnote: the repair guy should not have installed Leopard. You have no Leopard disks in case you need to do a reinstall or run Repair Disk from Disk Utility.
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Need to Reinstall Mail from Leopard Disk

How do I reinstall just the Mail.app from the 10.5 disk?
If I do, will all the current mail boxes and messages stored on my hard drive still be there?
Mail is from .Mac
Thanks

Mike,
Reinstalling Mail will not affect anything in your HOME folder. This includes anything in your mailboxes, any of your settings for Mail, etc.
Look on versiontracker.com for an application named Pacifist. Pacifist will allow you to browse the contents of the Leopard install disk, and extract/install just Mail.app. Are you sure that you need to reinstall Mail, and if so, why?
Scott

HELP - Reinstalling iLife from Leopard Install Discs

I have a question...
I need to reinstall ONLY iMovie and iDVD from the Leopard Install discs. (My computer came with Leopard and iLife 08)
If I click on the option "install bundled software only", can I choose which application to install?
If I can't choose, will my iTunes and iPhoto libraries be deleted because I reinstalled iLie '08?
Thanks!!!

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that iLife was not on the Leopard install DVD.
It comes on the system HD but that's it.
If you want to be sure, download Pacifist (yahoo for it - it's free and made by charlessoft) and see if you can find it on the DVD. If it's there, simply extract it.
I would backup your libraries in any case before doing anything.

IMac G4 / "Downgrading" to Tiger from Leopard / Installing(?) OS 9/Classic

Hey guys, I have an old iMac G4 (1.0 GHz, 17") that I bought used - it's in great shape, but it has been upgraded to Leopard 10.5.8 and I don't have the original discs. I got the computer because I have several programs I'd like to run via OS 9 "Classic" mode (mostly for nostalgia's sake). I have the following questions:
1. Is it possible to somehow "downgrade" the computer to Tiger 10.4.11 using a full retail disc? I am perfectly willing to wipe the entire machine - there is nothing essential on it.
2. If that is possible, would I then need to find a full retail copy of OS 9 for Classic mode to run, or is this built-in/included in the full version of 10.4?
3. If none of the above are possible (or practical), are there legitimate, stable emulators(?) out there that I can download/purchase to run old applications that require OS 9 on the G4 and/or a more modern Intel-based iMac? If so, could you recommend some?
Thanks so much for reading all that - I look forward to your responses!

Just erase the HD & install Tiger using the retail installer. After you install the base 10.4.x, update to the final Tiger version 10.4.11. Here's the link for the 10.4.11 combo update http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US
If you just want to run classic mode while booted in Tiger, just copy the System Folder containing OS 9.2.1 or 9.2.1 from another Mac & transfer to your iMac. OS 9 is not included on the Tiger installer.
 Cheers, Tom

Can't install Tiger from Leopard

Hi everybody,
I'm running Leopard on my flat panel iMac but I'd like to move down to Tiger.
The iMac recognizes the install disc but nothing happens when I double-click the installer (the iMac just boots to Leopard).
I've also tried holding down the "c" key as I restart but I get a question mark.
Finally, I tried setting startup disc to the Tiger install CD but it just boots to Leopard.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
Mike

That is unfortunate, with the G4 Cube.
Did you try the Option key at startup, to get Startup Manager?
If you can't get it startup from that retail Tiger DVD, you could try to do an installation onto the that iMac G4's hard drive, using another supported PowerPC Mac to run the installation. I see you have an iMac G5 in your profile. It needs to be a PowerPC Mac, because there are separate PowerPC and Intel builds for Tiger. This method involves using FireWire Target Disk Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
If you have that other Mac and want more details, please post back.

I can't restaure my adress book backup from Leopard in Tiger

May seem a little complicated, but I had to reinstall Tiger over Leopard which I used for some times. So I had made a backup of my adress book entries (.abbu)and tried to restaure it in adress book on tiger but nothing had showed up.
Is there anything to do with the system, is it that the adress book on Leopard version is no more compatible on Tiger?

Do you know if there's a compatibility problem between Leopard and Snow Leopard.
It's not that there's a problem, it's that they are different versions and some things have changed, so trying to import a backup from an earlier version probably won't work. If you have another Mac with Tiger on it (even on it's own bootable partition, you can load the backup and then export all the contacts as a single vCard file and get it into Address Book on Leopard or Snow Leopard without a problem.

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