Snow Leopard Crazy Problems, And Poor Perfomance Issues?

I got my first G5 a few years ago and it was totally rock solid, and never missed a step, until I traded it in on a Mac Pro to get SL and be able have better performance and the ability to upgrade later on in Final Cuts Studio 3. I have never ever experience such a horror of crap until I installed SL last night. This is the biggest disappointment I have ever seen from Apple!!! Period!,
1. I cloned a backup to a Free Agent USB Drive, thank god
2. When I got SL installed by just upgrading 5.8, I got ton on problems like
a message saying that I need to restart , so I did, and did , and again,
30 of so more times until, I tried repairing permissions etc, never worked.
3. I finally erased the drive and tried to reinstall a fresh install, got SL to
work finally but now I am getting a error message "Your Mac OS X startup Disk
has no more space available for Application Memory? the interface is slow
like a window machine! My system drive is 6 gigs, and I have 6 gigs of memory
4. Now I am cloning to a spare drive from the Free Agent backup and thinking
about not even using the drive with SL on it.
Sorry about the whining guys, but this fustrating!, your imput is very much
helpful, and I thank you all for being here!
Tim C.

When you took your G5 backup... I hope you did not use it to (home directory) to then upgrade to SL.
Reason is that there is a lot of older code and the upgrade from PPC to the Intel was never a clean one. There where a number of posts that addressed this specifically. There is a manual way to move the files from your home directory but the rest, you are better off with a re-install.
I did the migration from the G5 to the MacPro and it was problematic. Did a few searches and found that this was the problem. Migrated based on the recomendations given on these boards and got all my stuff working just fine and the update to SL also worked just fine... Its all in the process I guess.
RM

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That is Snow Leopard.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will receive physical media - DVD - by mail.
Third-party sources for Snow Leopard are:
Snow Leopard from Amazon.com
Snow Leopard from eBay
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.
Before upgrading check that you computer meets the minimum requirements:
Snow Leopard General requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
2. 1GB of memory
3. 5GB of available disk space
4. DVD drive for installation
5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may
apply.
6. Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
Upgrading to Lion
First, you need to upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 as stated above.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. 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.
Before upgrading check that you computer meets the minimum requirements:
Lion System Requirements
1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or
Xeon processor
2. 2GB of memory
3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
4. 7GB of available space
5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
Be sure your computer meets the minimum requirements:
Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - Read the technical specifications.
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
7. Xserve (Early 2009)
Are my applications compatible?
See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS.
Am I eligible for the free upgrade?
See Apple - Free OS X Mountain Lion upgrade Program.
For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Apple - Upgrade your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion.

Snow Leopard Network Problems

Hi all.
I'm setting up my second Snow Leopard Server machine and I'm having the most frustrating networking problems.
I'm setting up a server with two NICs, and for some bizarre reason connection will NOT work. Trying to ping within the subnet of the inoperative connection produces "no route to host" errors. Switch the IP configurations between the two NICs, and the problem follows the primary configuration. The same network settings work correctly on a different machine, so the problem is definitely software.
I can't help wondering if this is related to source-based routing in 10.6. But I've tried flushing the routing table to no avail.
This exact same issue happened with the other Snow Leopard server I set up. After a few days of idling, the problems magically resolved themselves. Unfortunately, I don't have time for that to happen with this server.
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Easiest fix: don't use a Mac as an expensive (and slow) IP router (or NAT box). Use an external firewall.
If you really want to wade into IP routing (and do you actually have enough network traffic to warrant lighting up two gigabit Ethernet connections right now?) then poke around for the existing discussions of setting up the ordering of the controllers and establishing subnet routing live and after each reboot.
I'm probably going to end up writing an article and posting it, as this arises way too often, and folks are understandably having issues with locating the problem given that most (understandably) don't know they need to look for subnets and static routes and such.
Existing threads including [this|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10688941] and [this|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5697532] are reasonable starting points for your dual-NIC quest.
One other related gremlin that crops up here is the subnet addressing assignments; you'll usually want to have the (co-resident) NICs using addresses in separate subnets or routing can get squirrelly.
Or plug in the external firewall (which has other advantages) and use it as the router and firewall and NAT box for your LAN.

Installing Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, Install failed and HD write-locked

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So now I am stuck and I am thinking of two things (plus some questions)
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a. so how can I un-write-lock Macintosh HD?
2. More realistically, I am thinking of borrowing someone else's macintosh computer and use it as the backup center. I have a firewire cable and a terrabyte external hard drive. So what I'm thinking is that I'll hook my computer in target mode to my friend's computer and I will also plug in my external hard drive to my friend's computer and then I can download and run Carbon Copy Cloner from my friend's computer to copy all data from my Macintosh HD to my external hard drive. And then I will erase my Macintosh HD, freshly install Mountain Lion onto it and then copy all data back from my external hard drive. But I am not sure about few things.
a. it looks like my Macintosh HD is write-locked. Can I still use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy all data from Macintosh HD (in target mode) to my external hard drive?
b. will my computer allow me to erase (or format) Macintosh HD?
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If you are here, then you have read my long long problem. Thank you very much and I would really really really appreciate your answers and opinions. Thanks

I'm not sure where you read that about the disk being "write-locked." That doesn't make much sense, given that the major task an installer like this must achieve is writing a whole bunch of files to the hard drive. I think your source was mistaken.
As to what happened, it sounds like your hard drive was badly corrupt to start with, or possibly was on the edge of failing and is now in the process of dying entirely. If you don't have backups of your data, that does not bode well for you, unfortunately. If you can manage to use target mode to copy your data, do that.
Once you're sure you've got all your data, you need to start up from your Snow Leopard install disk and repair the hard drive. (Since it sounds like the Mountain Lion installer didn't work, I wouldn't trust the recovery partition that Mountain Lion installs.) Or, even better, just erase the hard drive entirely and reinstall Snow Leopard. Then, once you're back up and running, with all your data back on the system and with Snow Leopard updated to the most recent version, try installing Mountain Lion again. If any of that fails again, the problem is likely to be a dying hard drive, and you'll need to replace it.

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Good night,
I have a Macbook Pro Later 2011 with Yosemite installed and today i tried to upgrade memory and SSD.
Memory: 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 (2x8) Corsair 11-11-11-30 1.35v
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After installation of my new gear, i tried to install OS X Snow Leopard through DVD and i get this 3 beep when boot start.
So i reinstalled the original hard drive, keep the new 16gb and started correctly.
Tried boot DVD again with the original hard drive and new 16gb but the 3 beep continues...
Then i removed the 16gb, but still doing this 3 beep stuff when i try boot from DVD.
I tried all combinations with new and old hardware but nothing more works...
I have changed the slots with both, the 16gb and old 4gb.
Could be the DVD corrupted?
Now im running my Yosemite with the original hard drive and the new 16gb memory without any issue.
Im already do the memory test nothing wrong appear in results
My configuration:
MacBook Pro (17 polegadas, Final de 2011)
Processador 2,4 GHz Omte; Cpre i7
Memória 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Gráficos Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
Could anyone help me plz?
ps. sorry for my english

The DVD's too old for that Mac. If you need to install an OS on it, connect it to the Internet and start it up with the Option, Command, and R keys held down.
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Snow Leopard indexing - mail and documents.

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bump - can anyone help with Snow Leopard indexing problem?

Upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard - multiple problems

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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
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Save your money for a new 10.8 machine. IMO
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I just update my Mac operating system from Snow Leopard to Yosemite and now have to upgrade my Epson Printer WF3540 so that it will be able to scan. Will Adobe be compatible with these softwares?

I just update my Mac operating system from Snow Leopard to Yosemite and now have to upgrade my Epson Printer WF3540 so that it will be able to scan. Will Adobe be compatible with these softwares?

Hi spiritentrep,
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Bash: Apple should continuously support Bash update 1.x for all prior-Snow Leopard OS X and Servers

I don't see any reason why Apple should ignore all pior-Snow Leopard OS X and Servers' Bash Update 1.0.
In my work environment, I have a mixture of Unix servers (from the old to the latest). Now, all Unix machines are vulnerable to Shellshock. It is worse than heartbleed bug. Why do Apple still let crackers have chance to attack those old Apple machines and Xserves? For God's sake, please provide Bash updates to them all. This is a historical glitch. Poor users had no choice of what version of Bash to install or remove at the time. Their securities are on Apple's hand. Apple has the responsibility to fix it.
Put it another way, on May 1, 2014, despite the end of support for the Windows XP (April 8, 2014, over 12 years since its long release), Microsoft released an emergency patch to correct a major, recently discovered security exploit in the Internet Explorer browser on all versions of Windows.
If Microsoft can do it, why Apple cannot do it better?

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You can download it here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/

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