REVERT BACK TO LEOPARD

I use Time Machine to backup my Mac. I would like to revert to 10.5 after upgrading to SL, but I don't want to lose all the other changes to files, mail, etc. by doing so. Can anyone help me out?
Just me venting:
I really can't believe that Apple released SL in the state that it's in...never again will I upgrade before the first patch, update, etc. This just screams Vista all over again to me. I'm really disappointed.

Why not just back up your files as they stand now by dragging and dropping onto an external--even the one TM is on assuming there is room.
Then, If you want to go back to Leopard, you will need to do an erase and install. I would first try the Leopard (i.e., 10.5) DVD. But, you may have to use the Snow Leopard (i.e., 10.6) DVD for the erase part. Let's assume the first for now. Startup from the DVD by holding down c when starting up. Next, when able, choose your language and stop. Then, using the menus at the top, select Disk Utility and erase you drive. Next, quit Disk Utility and continue the install. After the install is complete, insert your Leopard applications disk and install the programs you want. Now, you are done.
In the other case, you will have to exit the installer after exiting Disk Utility. Next, you would startup with your Leopard DVD again by holding c down during startup. Now, after selecting your language again, just click install. After the installer is finished, install your applications as above.
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

Similar Messages

Difficulty scanning slides on my Epson V600 running Lion, Adobe Photoshop CS6, and can no longer use the Epson scan application or the plug in for Photoshop. Should I revert back to leopard in my time machine to finish scanning my family slides?

I am running Lion 10.7.5, Adobe Photoshop CS6, scanning slides on my Epson V600 and can no longer use the scan application or the plug in for Photoshop. Should I revert back to leopard in my time machine to finish scanning my family slides?
In 10.7 there is not a twain that works with Photoshop for importing with all the options needed to scan transparencies. I noticed that when I was scanning in October 2012 I was still using CS6 so somehow I was managing to be able to use all the scan features.
They sell 2nd party software (VieScan and Silverscript)which I found to be just mimially OK and very hard to use.
I just want to scan like I used to.
Can I use time machine to go back to an earlier operating sysytem LEOPARD, and then do my scans and then save the photos and them go back to the LION system?
I spent 7 hours trying crazy solutions - downloading Windows CS2 Photoshop and then using a program so I could run it on the apple. Then I couldn't figure out how to put a plug in for the scanner in the stupid windows Photoshop program. Googgling the computer like a mad woman trying to ask questions. I am not giving up...
Please help if you can...
Thanks...

I assume you've tried using Image Capture. Give VueScan a try.
http://www.hamrick.com

How do I revert back to Leopard from Snow Leopard?

I've been searching for days on a way to do revert back to Leopard from Snow Leopard (install Leopard over Snow Leopard).
I recently upgraded to SL and have had enough problems with applications that at this point I want to just revert to Leopard and wait a few months until I permanently upgrade.
I tried placing the Leopard install disk in and got as far as rebooting. Once it rebooted to begin installation it did this weird grey screen and force me to restart manually - it continued this in a loop until I removed the disk; which allowed me to boot back up in SL.
Is there a way to do this other than doing a full uninstall wiping all my data? If that is the only option, is there a easy way to transfer my data (Time Machine maybe or something else?)

I would transfer my data manually to a partition on an external firewire drive. Then, I would clone my SL installation to another partition of the drive. Next, I'd start up to my SL installation DVD and use Disk Utility to erase my internal. Afterward, I'd quit Disk Utility and quit the installer. Then, I use my Leopard install disk to reinstall Leopard. Since you are having app problems, I reinstall my apps using, among other things, the app disk that probably came with Leopard. Copy your data back, and you are good to go.
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

Reverting back to Leopard

Hello all, I have reached a stage where I really need to revert to an operating system that does what I need without crashing every 4 minutes.
I have used macs for many many years, this is not a case of 'lets diagnose' there are just to many issues and I have work to do.
The problem I have is I insert my leopard DVD that came with my mac and click restart as it instructs but it refuses to boot it just endlessly restarts/black screen/restart/black screen.
I have also tried starting up by holding down C and turning on but no go, I would appear to not be allowed to revert.
Is there anything else I can try? Worse case I could use another Harddrive, but that seems a tad excessive.

Hello all, I have reached a stage where I really need to revert to an operating system that does what I need without crashing every 4 minutes.
Just so long as you understand this is not normal. I understand you don't have time to troubleshoot further... though, for all you know, you've got some kind of problem that will still assert itself once you revert back to Leopard.
The problem I have is I insert my leopard DVD that came with my mac and click restart as it instructs but it refuses to boot
Well, that is a bit of a problem... there are really only a few possibilities here.
First, are you sure that you're using the right disk in the right computer? If your computer shipped with Leopard, you must use the gray disk that came with that computer. A retail Leopard disk may not work, and a gray disk from another computer definitely won't work.
Second, the disk itself may be damaged. Have you checked for scratches, cleaned it thoroughly, etc? Try putting it in a different machine (not booting from it) and see if it will appear on the desktop. For that matter, try it for the machine you want to revert. If it doesn't work, you'll need a replacement disk.
Third, you could have a hardware problem of some sort, such as a dirty or damaged optical drive. Do other DVDs work? Can you boot from the Snow Leopard disk?

Reverting back to Leopard from Snow Leopard.

I am very disappointed, upset and tired of finding problems with Snow Leopard after installing it on my Mac Pro Quad Xeon and will NOT install it on my 17" MacBook Pro. These are just some of the things screwed up since updating to Snow Leopard:
ADDRESS BOOK - lost phone numbers.
MAIL - Signatures have changed fonts. Copy and paste doesn't work in Signatures. Unread messages are not displayed in bold as checked. Changed shortcut to delete items in Trash.
FINDER - ScreenGrabs show drop-shadows of dialog boxes as black.
iCAL- can't edit title of events!
SYSTEM PREFERENCES - Security doesn't Load and crashes when I click on it a second time.
CALCULATOR 4.2 - Does not work!!!!! Says that version in incompatible!! WHY DIDN'T IT GET UPDATED!!!!
PRINTING - Can not print anything.
Can I revert back to Mac OS X 10.5, plain ole regular Leopard?

You cannot an install any system earlier than the system your Mac shipped with. If that was 10.6, fine.
But the problem isn't SL millions are using it with no issues at all. In other words, your problems are not SL related.
What often happens is there is some minor corruption that goes unnoticed until an upgrade and the upgrade exacerbates it.
Take the time to do some troubleshooting...
Create a new User go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> "+" (make it an admin acct) and test the apps in this new account, if they work the problem is isolated to your User and not systemwide.
If the issue is limited to your user account try starting up Safe Mode (It will take more time to startup in Safe Mode because it runs a directory check.)
If your apps functions correctly that way, go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> Login Items, and remove them. Boot normally and test. If not go to ~(yourHome)/Library/Contextual Menu Items and move whatever is there to the desktop. Then do the same with /Library/Contextual Menu Items. Lastly, try moving ~(yourHome)/Library/Fonts to your desktop and restarting.
Log out/in or restart, if that sorts it start putting items back one at a time until you find the culprit.
If the issue is systemwide then, you may be able to repair this with the The 10.6.2 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
Let us know.
-mj

I would like to revert back to Leopard Dock in Mavericks. Is it possible?

Hi, I started this topic on non-developers forum (I'm an ordinary user, not a developer) but as it turned out I should expect little help from them therefore I decided to take chances here. So, I would like VERY MUCH to have Leopard's Dock though I'm on Mavericks. I know that since Leopard's Dock was a PPC app it can't be extracted from Leopard's combo update and simply placed in CoreServices folder. I've browsed Internet but to no avail and I don't want to install too much third-party software that won't find use in my environment. The only solution could be to ask whether it's possible to have the means to make that app that would be working on Mavericks? If yes, then how to accomplish it, I'm catching on quickly, so I think I could afford this task, if I get some advices.
Or maybe I should request here if someone agrees to write such version of the app, I'm sure many other users would gladly have this Dock, because since ML (or even Lion) Dock wasn't much favorably acclaimed (especially its active apps indicators are designed poorly).
Would be glad to hear from you,
I.S.

Had you looked into existing Dock Modifiers for Mavericks, as in the past, some persons
did create and distribute this kind of product, often for free or little expense?
A revisit to the generalized topic may be seen in this results URL from a search on theme:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=dock+modification+mavericks
Hopefully you can make use of some of these existing ideas and/or products, but do be
wary of some that may not be what they pretend to be; least you get adware or ??? stuff.
Good luck & happy computing!

Stuck in Lion installation *LIMBO* - disk damaged, disk wont repair, disk is locked, wont revert back to snow leopard

I'm stuck in Limbo. I cant complete the install and cant revert back to snow leopard. All I have are the installer utilites (including safari).
I'm running a summer 2009 release macbook pro 17 inch. I downloaded the Lion install app and proceeded to follow the instructions and guided. After less than a minute the install stopped to say that it could not be completed because the hard disk is damaged and can’t be repaired.
So...I went to disc utility to verify the disk and this is what I got.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Incorrect number of file hard links
Bad hard link creation date
(It should be 3325742596 instead of 3340504404)
Hard link record has data extents (id = 2888169)
Checking multi-linked files.
The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
So I put in my Snow Leopard disk and went to repair disk. Now, THIS is what I got.
Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
So then I wanted to go back to Snow Leopard at least, but I cant. When I go to “Startup Disk” and select my Mac 10.6.8 drive, it says:
You can’t change the startup disk from the selected disk.
Startup Disk could not gather enough information on Selected Disk.
So that’s annoying because it keeps me stuck in that installation "limbo" - not able to finish installing and not able to go back.
I restarted, holding down the OPTION key, but it only gave me one boot selection - the installer itself.
So then I try yet again to install this thing because there’s not much else I can do...but now it won’t even start installing...when the installer screen asks which drive I want to install it on, for which I would of course choose my Macintosh HD, it says in subscript underneath Macintosh HD:
“This disk is locked” and it wont let me select the “continue” button to begin the installation.
Please help, someone.

phew, just got everything back to "normal"
I turned off my mac for about 10 minutes and then started it up again. Also I think this time i inserted my snow leopard disc at just the right time, not too early not too late.
Whatever it was, when i went to "Startup Disk" the snow leopard disc showed up!
So then I went to disk utility after booting the snow leopard installer for the first time. It said it repaired one thing but then stopped and said it couldnt repair it and told me to back up and reformat.
Then I just ran a simple verify again and it said the HD was "OK" - it gave me a clean bill of health?!?!
So then I went to startup disk again, and was finally able to get out of limbo and back to good old snow leopard.
Now I'll install Lion, but taking all cautions beforehand...maybe i'll wait a few days first though.
Thanks to everyone.

How do I uninstall Snow Leopard Server, so that I can revert back to Snow Leopard?

I was experimenting with the Snow Leopard Server DVD on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. I started the installation process, expecting that it would not install on the Startup Disk, as I had not booted from the DVD.
To my surprise it installed!
How do I "uninstall" or revert back to Snow Leopard, without have to take such drastic steps that I would lose all of my Snow Leopard System folder contents (such as doing a wipe and starting over with a fresh Snow Leopard install)? Thank you.

I assume by "back up your data" you mean a Time Machine backup?
Preferably, yes.
I have a BootCamp partition to run Windows; does Time Machine back that up, too?
No, but it won't be affected unless something goes wrong. You still need to back it up, of course, just like all other data.

I recently upgraded my MacBook from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Now when I create a song in Garage Band 2008, I cannot save the volume adjustment when I share back to iTunes and ultimately upload to YouTube. The volume reverts back to a default? low l

I recently upgraded my MacBook from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Now when I create a song in Garage Band 2008, I cannot save the volume adjustment when I share back to iTunes, which is now version 11.1.1, and ultimately upload to YouTube. The volume reverts back to a default? low level. How can I retain the volume I assign in Garage Band, so that when the song moves to iTunes it doesn't revert?

I recently upgraded my MacBook from 10.5.8 to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Now when I create a song in Garage Band 2008, I cannot save the volume adjustment when I share back to iTunes, which is now version 11.1.1, and ultimately upload to YouTube. The volume reverts back to a default? low level. How can I retain the volume I assign in Garage Band, so that when the song moves to iTunes it doesn't revert?

How to revert back to Snow Leopard from Lion?

Foolishly I just jumped straight in, downloaded Lion and installed it, and well... I really don't like it. It's not a patch on SL.
So I'm trying to work out the best way of reverting back to Snow Leopard.
I have:
My Snow Leopard install disc.
A SuperDuper, bootable backup from 48 hours pre-upgrade.
A Time Machine backup from 48 hours pre-upgrade.
I'm fairly sure that just putting the SL install disc in, isn't going to work.
I think I have a couple of options.
1. Erase the hard drive completely, and then do a fresh SL install, then restore the last TM backup.
2. Boot from the SuperDuper backup, then restore the last TM backup.
I'd prefer option 1, as this gives me a clean install (I hope).
Before I go ahead, can anyone:
a) See any problems with carrying this out, or
b) Suggest a better, safer method?
I'm a bit concerned that SL was an upgrade to an existing OS, rather than a complete OS in itself, so I'm very wary of what might happen if I wipe the drive then put the disc in, hoping it'll give me a nice new version of SL. Might need to go and do a bit more reading up.
Thanks.

For ref.
Dragged and dropped copies of important files (Docs, Pictures, Downloads, Movies etc) to a spare drive.
Printed off any docs that I absolutely could not afford to lose.
Shut down Mac.
Attached USB drive with SuperDuper backup, and powered up drive.
Powered up Mac, and immediately pressed the option key.
From the window that popped up, chose my USB drive as the boot disk and pressed return.
Mac powered up running Snow Leopard from USB drive.
Started Disk Utility, and erased the disk labelled 250.06 GB Fujitsu.... etc In the 'name' field, entered 'Macintosh HD'
Started up SuperDuper! and copied my backup over Macintosh HD.
Incidentally, the first step it took was to erase Macintosh HD anyway, so I could probably have skipped the first erase.
Let SuperDuper! do it's thing for 90 mins.
Once it had completed, closed the machine down (it wouldn't let me eject the USB drive, as presumably it was still using that as the boot disc).
Detached and powered off USB drive.
Pressed Mac power button and crossed fingers...
And goodbye annoying Lion, hello again, good old Snow Leopard!
Didn't even need to restore the last Time Machine backup.
I may take another look at Lion again, further down the road, when hopefully Apple will have realised that OS X and iOS are two completely different animals, and that we don't all want our Macs behaving like our iPads.
For now though, I'm sticking with SL.

OSX Lion, It is slow and really lumpy/jerky Can I revert back to Snow leopard?

Where are Apple?
Had OSXLion for a week and it is nothing like as fast as the last OS, screen changes are really slow and jerky and the whole thing feels slower. Is there anything that I can do, or can I revert back to Snow Leopard?
This is a real shame never had this type of issue with Apple before.

This is a user to user forum. You can only revert to Snow Leopard through your backup. You might attempt piecemeal data recovery after backing up your Lion system, and copying your e-mail folders to IMAP if they weren't stored there before. Spotlight frequently needs to finish updating in the menu in the upper right (it will only have a search field if it is done, and say it is indexing if it is not), or some plugins may need upgrading to be Lion compatible before you upgrade to Lion. See my FAQs*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html#LION

Can I revert back to Snow Leopard from Mountain Lyon ?

Since updateing to Snow leopard my computer has become very slow. The nice man at the White Cathedral said it was because of the age of my computer (bought 2007) and he wouldn't advice me to update to this level. I now wish to revert back to Snow Leopard. Is it Possible and how do you do it. I have a complete Time Machine backup on an external drive.
My computer is an iMac, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB SDRAM.

Thanks to everyone for their help. It would appear that I want be able to access my documents from the Mountain Lion Time Machine backup disk after I have reverted to Snow Leopard. I guess I'm just stuck with a very slow machine.

Can I revert back to Snow Leopard after upgrading to Lion?

I would like to install Lion over my current Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installation but I have some concerns that I may not like it. If for some reason, I want to revert back to SL, can I use a Time Machine backup to return to my former OS?

Yes. Just boot up from your Snow Leopard DVD, and restore the last Time Machine backup that was made before you installed Lion.

Can't use my mac since mavericks update but I didn't backup when I had snow leopard because I had no external hdd until I recently bought one. Can I revert back to SL?

So, here's the thing I just upgraded to Mac OS X Mavericks from SL but since upgrading my mac shuts off immediately by itself so I use it in safe boot. When I was running SL I didn't backup my stuff because I had external hdd, but I just bought one and I want revert back to snow leopard. How do I go back to snow leopard while also taking all my saved stuff even though I didn't backup it back then when I using SL?

Hei [email protected]
PROBLEM
=========
After upgrading to maverick 10.9.2 my camera stopped working on my iMac and on my MacBookPro.
First I suspected that it was the maverick upgrade, which was the problem.
After spending several days with searching on the internet and trying all the different suggestions.
Which included re-format hard disk, re-install Maverick again, safe boot, removing old *.kext files, repair disk, check disk with permissions etc. etc. (waste of time)
I phoned apple support, but supporter said that it was a non apple App which caused the problem.
Then I say somebody saying that the AirDisplay was the problem.
SOLUTION
==========
I finally found out that:
By uninstalling the AirDisplay solved the problem, and now the camera works again.
Here is the link how to uninstall AirDisplay:
http://www.avatron.com/support/faq-air-display/#toggle-id-24
PLEASE Avatron
==============
When do Avatron have a fix for this particular problem. No update was available today when I tried.
Are Avatron working on the problem?
A lot of people have this problem with AirDisplay and Maverick Update 10.9.2 !!!!!
search google
maverick 10.9.2 facetime camera air display not working
Regards
Finn Rosenkilde Rasmussen / (+45) 48 24 60 30
http://www.linkedin.com/in/hvepseeksperten
HvepseEksperten.dk ApS
Kongens Vænge 79
3400 Hillerød
Denmark

Time Machine - Revert OS from SL back to Leopard?

I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I rely heavily on Live Sync for many thousands of files that I share within my company, and I soon found out that SL does not yet support Live Sync.
the question is, can I revert back to my old verison of Leopard via TM? Can I "restore" the old using TM?
Thanks in advance for your help.

WilliamGenske wrote:
I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I rely heavily on Live Sync for many thousands of files that I share within my company, and I soon found out that SL does not yet support Live Sync.
the question is, can I revert back to my old verison of Leopard via TM? Can I "restore" the old using TM?
yes, you can. boot from the snow leopard install DVD and use "restore system from backup" in the Utilities menu. this will wipe your drive and replace the whole system with the copy of the system at the backup time.
Thanks in advance for your help.

REVERT BACK TO LEOPARD

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for