Replacing mavericks with mountain lion.

I have an iMac with mavericks installed but want to reinstall mountain lion as I am not happy with mavericks. I am running mavericks on an external drive and have erased my internal drive. Anyone have any success with this?

Did you Mac come with ML originally?
Do you have a (bootable) backup/clone of your ML before you installed Mavericks?

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  • Replace mavericks with Mountain Lion

    I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini, it will have Mavericks installed but some of my software won't run on Mavericks but will on Mountain Lion. I see Mountain Lion is being sold at a reasonable price.
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    You could check when there is more than one model
    Mini in the Special Deals refurbish store page, and
    ask Sales if one from two years ago can run Mt Lion.
    Previous model years are sometimes a better bet,
    though a few more recent Macs still could boot from
    a previous OS X version, don't bet on it. I'd ordered
    a refurb Mac from the Apple Store some time back
    and a capability stated to be functional wasn't in it.
    There should be more information on the capability
    of a recent/offered model Mini, if it could run Mt Lion.
    You'd probably need to try to install it in a separate
    external hard disk drive enclosure, if possible, so as
    to keep the original Mavericks intact. Even if it works.
    These use Internet/Recovery to restore an original OS X
    as well as internet to update/upgrade it. No DVDs.
    PS: you could try & make a bootable recovery USB per
    advice in this third-party article, though it may not help
    resolve, update, or change new computer to run old OSX.
    http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mav ericks-usb-install-drive/
    This kind of technical question relies on hard to access
    information that would be arrived at, here, by trial & error.
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    edited

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    I am still running Snow Leopard because of a VM.  Looking to upgrade to Mountain Lion and then Mavericks or straight to Mavericks if permitted.  Need to know if iWeb '09 is compatible though with the more recent OS.

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  • I have a Macbook Air with Mountain Lion..I upgraded to the latest version called Mavericks OX now it crashes a lot...when I use the shift key especially I now have version 10.9

    I have a Macbook Air with Mountain Lion..I upgraded to the latest version called mavericks ox now it crashes a lot...when I use the shift and Caps keys especially. I now have version 10.9. how can I get mountain lion back and get rid of this update?

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    If I buy a mac with mountain lion and then upgrade to mavericks will I get iWork for free.

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    If your new Mountain Lion does not come with free iWork, then it won't magically appear for free if you upgrade to Mavericks.
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  • HT1152 Hi, we have just got our new replacement desktop mac with mountain lion. We had a G5 that was irreparable. Now we are looking to see where we can put in our cd's as we just popped them into the side on the G5 but no joy here !

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  • Isolated dual boot with OS mavericks and mountain lion

    I just created a dual boot between mavericks and mountain lion (1 physical drive with two partitions) but I'm having troubles where they each see each other.  Bin/ lib/ etc are fine (i think) as they are added via environment vars but it seems as though the spotlight privacy directories are shared.  For instance, I thought I could simply add the other partition to the Spotlight Privacy list, ie while using mountain lion add /Volumes/Mavericks to the privacy list.  However, when I added the volume in one, it also appears in the other.  Another issue I've encountered is that while compiling on ML, I was getting errors complaining about the 10.9 sdk.
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    I'm running Mavericks and when I try to print on my networked HP LaserJet 1320tn I get the message  "Printing - The printer is in use." and nothing happens. The same set up works fine's with Mountain Lion. I am uptodate. Any thoughts?

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    I have
    1. tried to print form a different add
    2. deleted and reinstaled the printer
    3. deleted and reinstall the printer drivers
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  • I have a Mac with Mountain Lion and a Pro MacBook with Maverick. Since going to the cloud with my calendar I get "updating iCal" signal and can't use the calendar on my mac

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  • I HAVE A I MAC WITH MOUNTAIN LION BUT WHEN I DOWNLOAD MAVERICKS ALL STAR GOING BAD AND RIOGTH NOW THE COMPUTER DOESNT START I AM **** UP HOW CAN RESTORE MY ORIGINAL OS LION MOUNTINE

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    Don't post in all caps.  Besides being more difficult to read it's tantamount to shouting and is considered rude in forums.  What problems are you having? What model Mac do you have, how much RAM and free space on the boot drive?
    Boot into the Recovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down) and try the following in order as needed:
    1 - select Disk Utility and repair both the disk and disk permissions.  Reboot normally.
    2 - reinstall the Mavericks system.
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  • Migration from Mavericks to mountain lion?

    Hi,
    Apple had to replace my dead hard drive (Macbook pro). Then they reinstalled Mavericks while I was on Mountain lion previously.
    I used Migration Assistant to transfer profile from my iMAC (Mountain Lion 10.8.5) to my Macbook Pro (with new hard drive and Mavericks 10.9.2). Although my profile has been installed on my refreshed macbook pro, it is still using Mavericks and not Mountain lion as I expected. Is there anything that I can do to transfer my iMAC to my Macbook pro (and overwrite MAvericks)?
    Many thanks for your advice.

    You can only roll back as far as the OS that your computer shipped with. If the replacement system is one that would have shipped with Mav's that is as far back as you can go. This is likely the situation.
    You can always try and re-install Mountain Lion if you'd like by completely erasing your Macintosh HD and using a a USB installer with Mountain Lion: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/create-a-bootable-mountain-lion-usb-key-inst aller/
    but even if that is possible, which it may not be on that system, it may cause more issues than it is worth.
    Is there a reason you do not want to use Mavericks?

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