Snow Leopard. Do I go for it?

Could make thins better. I'm hearing reports from some Ableton users of much lower cpu strain.
Or it could <edited by host> everything up.

I'm specifically wondering whether Mainstage 2 can take advantage of Snow Leopard - so far, MS2 is just too cpu-intensive for me to use I am ultra-disappointed in it, but am hoping (nay, praying) that Snow Leopard and MS2 updates will improve the situation radically.

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I have leopard, do I need snow leopard and then Lion for iCloud?

I have just got an iPhone 4S. It lets me have iCloud. I like iCloud. My Mac on the other hand does not like iCloud. I have 10.5.8 (I believe to be leopard) do i need Snow leopard or can I jump to lion to get my Mac to like iCloud?
Thanks
Jonathan

You can jumpt directly to Lion by purchasing the Apple USB Lion flash drive installer - $69.00 at your local Apple retailer. Otherwise, do as Carolyn has recommended - $29.00 for Snow Leopard and $30.00 for Lion. You save $10.00 doing it that way. If you choose to use that method then you may want to make your own USB installer:
Make Your Own Lion Installer
1. After downloading Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Lion application. After Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing Lion.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
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.
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.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
3. Locate the saved Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the InstallESD.dmg disc image file into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable Lion installer that you can use without having to re-download Lion.

Can I restore the Snow Leopard version of 'Preview' for use in Mountain Lion?

When running Snow Leopard I enjoyed using Preview with my HP C7280 All-in-One Scanner/Printer. I could place several items on the glass plate and Preview would then carry out a "preview scan". The superior edge detection software contained in Preview would recognise that there was more than one item on the scanner glass and put a marquee rectangle around each object (even separate images in a magazine page). I could de-select objects if I wanted to at this point to avoid scanning them, or I could opt to scan.
Preview would then scan all selected items in one go outputting a separate file for each one. No need to re-scan and select the next object. Preview would do the lot in one go! This was fantastic for saving time for me.
Preview really 'kicked the crap' out of my PC at work. The best the scanning software on the PC could was to auto-detect a single item.* So if I have a lot to do, I have to preview scan and then save/scan each item individually to achieve the same result.
All this changed when I updated from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. The scanning is nothing like as effective and time saving as before. Preview just scans the whole glass plate straight to a file irrespective of what is on it, no preview scan and no object edge detection whatsoever; not even a single object like on my old PC at work. Absolute rubbish!
I really want to restore the functionality I had before. So I wonder, is it best to revert my iMac to Snow Leopard, or can I achieve this another way? I don't necessarily want to abandon Mountain Lion - but I will if I have to.
Is it possible to restore the Snow Leopard version of Preview whilst keeping Mountain Lion? Or maybe download the Lion version from somewhere instead - assuming that the Lion version still has same functionality as the Snow Leopard version?
*Even this is better than what Preview does since I updated to Mountain Lion

It's either that or finding other software for your scanning needs. For example, Image Capture comes with OS X, VueScan 9.2.09, ExactScan Pro 2.24.
Alternatively, partition your hard drive and install Snow Leopard on another volume.
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive. Use the Snow Leopard installer DVD to install Snow Leopard on your new volume.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.

Running Snow Leopard but need Tiger for ONE application... Possible?

Hello all... I currently have an intel Macbook Pro which is about 3.5 yrs old. My OS is Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and I love it.. however, I also need to use an old version of Avid Xpress Pro which recommends running 10.4.6-10.4.8 (Tiger). This is the only application that I have that requires this OS... Unfortunately, I need the app for now.
My question is this:
Can I partition (or by any other means) a portion of my Mac for Tiger 10.4.8 and the rest for Snow Leopard?
If so how do I go about it?
Many thanks!!

Having the original disks does not matter... the question is, what did your Mac _ship with_? If it shipped with Tiger, then you can certainly partition and install Tiger on a second partition. Of course, if it were me, I would probably just buy an external drive and install Tiger on that, but that's just personal preference. If you choose to partition, just make sure you've got a good set of backups. You should be able to do it without erasing, but should not gamble your data on it going off without a hitch.
OTOH, if your Mac shipped with something other than Tiger, you simply cannot run Tiger on it. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186

Will the Genius Bar install Snow Leopard and Aperture 3 for me...?

I have an iMac 20" Core 2 Duo with Leopard. RAM is maxed at 3GB. All my data is backed up on a external HDD using Time Machine.
I need upgrade to Snow Leopard in order to get Aperture 3 (which I need in order to read RAW photos from my new camera).
Anyway, ever since I upgraded to Leopard I haven't been thrilled with my iMac's performance (I did the quick upgrade instead of the complete rebuild). So I want to wipe it clean this time and start over with a fresh install of Snow Leopard. The iMac is 3 years old now, so I think it's time for a fresh start.
I'm not comfortable doing this myself. Will the Genius Bar do this for me? I'm happy to buy the Snow Leopard and Aperture upgrades. But will the Genius Bar charge me? Or will they do it for free since I paid them already for the software?
Thanks for your help!

I do not know if they would do that or not; I believe there is a maximum time limit for a Genius Bar appointment and these kinds of installs may take longer than that. And, it is truly easy to do; your performance problems may not have had anything to do with the OS, but possibly some incompatible third party software or some other corruption. So, I'm not trying to change your mind, but if you want to try it yourself, there are a lot of people here who'd be able to walk you through it.
Now, another idea: did you know that iPhoto supports RAW formats? You can find many help articles like this one by going to Apple support and typing iPhoto RAW into the search field:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/6.0/en/hlp331.html

Is Snow Leopard (10.6) ready for Design Standard Cs4?

Hey all! I am a desktop publisher and I have had the snow leopard upgrade sitting right by my computer for over a year and still don't know if it would be safe to upgrade yet. Do those of you who use CS4 Adobe products especially those included in the package I have (Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) have any problems still? If so, what are they? Should I wait a little longer to upgrade or should I do it now?
Thank you so much!

If you do decide to go for it I would strongly suggest backing everything up, deactivating your software and then doing a clean install.
In place operating system upgrades are a crapshoot.
And yes, CS4 will be fine on SL.
Bob

Swap Retail Snow Leopard 10.6.0 for 10.6.1?

Hi,
If you've bought Snow Leopard from an Apple Store (the white box with the Snow Leopard on the front), is it possible to take it to an Apple Store and swap it for a more recent version? For example, if you have 10.6.0 in a box, can you take it to the Apple Store and swap it for 10.6.1 or 10.6.2 (when it comes out)?
Sounds like a crazy idea, but I was just wondering if Apple allow this?

I don't believe there are (as yet) any retail Snow Leopard installer discs that install 10.6.1 directly. The Snow Leopard Apple Store (U.S.) page is still listing it as "Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard" (not 10.6.1), so if there are any discs that do this, they are almost certainly limited to the very latest system discs that ship with the most recent Mac models. These discs are model specific & not available at retail, so you could not swap a retail disc for one of them anyway.
Beyond that, in the past Apple has not offered any swaps of (say) Leopard 10.5 retail installer discs for the later ones that installed 10.5.6 directly, so I doubt there will be any such offer for Snow Leopard retail discs, if & when the equivalent later version Snow Leopard installer retail discs appear.
Still, it can't hurt to ask at the Apple Store you bought your Snow Leopard retail disc from about this, if in fact you bought it at a bricks & mortar Apple Store….

I have upgraded Tiger to Snow Leopard to restore MacbookPro for space will I have to re-upgrade Tiger to Snow Leopard??

I have recently upgraded my Macbookpro from Tiger to Snow Leopard, however I wish to restore my MacBookPro for more space . When it restores, will I have to upgrade to Snow Leopard again? Hope this make Sense.
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Why is iCloud denied to Snow Leopard users? Paid for MobileMe for three years!

I'm really upset about this. Any help from Apple?

Snow Leopard doesn't appear to support features required for iCloud. You can still use iCloud.com and sync with your iOS devices.

Snow Leopard issues with Word for Mac 2004?

Are there any compatibility issues? Since I installed the Leopard, I've had to uninstall and reinstall Word Office for Mac twice.

Did you resolve the duplicate fonts using Font Book? See +Troubleshooting Office for Mac with Snow Leopard+
http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/09/hottopics_using_office_for_mac_with_snowleopard.html>
Some users found that removing the Remove the FontCacheTool file helped:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Support Files/FontCacheTool

HT4759 Recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Any way for iCloud to run on it?

Running an iMac. Recently upgraded to OS Snow Leopard. Just recently bought my wife an iPad-3 with which I'm syning. Any chance that iCloud will run on Snow Leopard? Wife will be using iCloud on OS5.1/iPad. Will I experience any problems regarding syncing iPad and iMac?
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Java Preferences can be found using Spotlight.
Update your Java 6 as previously instructed as it's supplies security fixes.
Java 7 and above is for 10.7 and above, Oracle is dropping support for Java 6.
However all versions of Java have been HIGHLY insecure, so it's advised not to use them at all
If your using Java based programs (like the free LibreOffice) then certainly disable Java in all web browsers and applets in Java Preferences.
Apple has a now annual OS X upgrade cycle that is causing havoc and disqualifying older, but perfectly working machines from running necessary software and dragging third party developers along.
So one shouldn't be running Safari (outdated and no Safari 6), Java 6, very possibly Chrome on OS x 10.6.8, but if you upgrade to 10.7 or above, your machine will perform slower and all your PPC based software will no longer continue to function.
It's sad, because OS X Snow Leopard has 1/4 OS X market share still and many can't upgrade because developers are not issuing 10.7/10.8 versions of their software because of AppStore and Gatekeeper signaling the closing of the operating system in the future.
The 10 year support cycle of Windows versions sounds like blessed relief compared to Apple's annual OS X upgrade nightmare.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still

Upgrade to Snow Leopard now, or wait for Lion?

iMac 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X v.10.5.8.
I’d really like to be able to use the Mac app store. Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard now, or just wait for Lion?

As Snow Leopard is uncharacteristically cheap compared to the usual price of a Mac OS, if you can spare ~$30 get 10.6 if you want to go shopping at the Mac App store.
You can still buy 10.7 when it comes out, whenever that will be.
The main thing about upgrading is to consider whether your existing software will be compatible with the new OS, because if it is not, then that could be an extra cost in upgrading non-Apple software, if such is relevant.

Snow Leopard Finder always prompting for root password

I've just 'upgraded' to Snow Leopard from Tiger on my Macbook Pro, only because increasing numbers of applications wouldn't install on Tiger. Snow Leopard is significantly slower than Tiger (2 gig plainly isn't enough for SL) and it's knackered a few of my installed applications, but that's not the main irritation. Now, when I carry out any move or delete operations in the Applications folder in Finder, I'm repeatedly prompted for the root password, even though I'm logged in as the root user. As it's quite a long password, for security reasons, this is a real PITA. Under Tiger, I was never so prompted. Can anyone suggest why Leopard's producing this prompt, and what can be done about it? Other than de-install SL and re-install Tiger, that is...
Fred

William Boyd, Jr. wrote:
Is running as "root" your normal mode of operation? If so, why? For several reasons that's recommended.
Fred Riley wrote:
Ok, I suppose I should be a bit more accurate. I login as user 'fredriley' which is a user with superuser rights. I don't login as 'root' because that's pretty bad practice in the Unix world (and rightly so), so my original message was inaccurate.
I'm guessing that's a mistype and should say "For several reasons that's not recommended" since in OS X root is disabled by default. What you were really getting a prompt for is the admin password. But you know that.
Now, though, I find some apps that would work under Tiger not working under SL, and I see no real functionality gain from 10.4 to 10.6. Ho hum.
Only because the application versions you have were written for an OS that was superseded almost four years ago. The current versions of those apps are likely better than ever.
As for "no functionality gain" ...look harder. For me, Tiger was a good solid OS with a few annoyances, Leopard was even more solid with the refinement and removal of most of the Tiger annoyances, and Snow Leopard is a further optimization.
Some people complain about new versions of various apps and OSs only getting loaded down with feature bloat. Well, with OS X you also get a lot of refinement and optimization. If a new version appears to have "no functionality gain," would that not imply that most of the work went into substance (performance, efficiency, workflow) rather than style (feature bloat and eye candy)? Just trying to help you keep an open mind. Personally, I would not want to go back to Tiger because I would miss the subtle but positive adjustments that were made since then. Tiger would just annoy me now.

Installing Snow Leopard Fresh or Upgrade for my setup...

Hi guys,
Just got my Snow Leopard disk... awesomely excited!
Never done this before so need to ask... what's the best way of going about the upgrade?
I currently have Leopard installed with Time Machine external HD running for backups.
Should I stick the disk in and upgrade? then restore from Time Machine?
Should I do a clean install, formatting first then installing, then restoring from Time Machine?
Or what?
I'd appreciate some direction. Just need to break the newb barrier
Thank you!

In your place, I would move to SL if, and only if, I had an external drive with a bootable clone of my internal on it and had my files backed up in some other secure place. I think that there is enough risk in going to SL that such conservatism is warranted. I would not use time machine alone for backup/restoring. This app can be problematic and, consequently, its solo use is too risky for me. You will be able to extract your settings, files, and programs from your clone if you do an erase and install.
To erase and install (upgrade is covered below), start up to your DVD and stop after selecting your language. Use the menus to start Disk Utility and erase your drive. Quit Disk Utility and proceed with your installation. At the end, you will be able to choose to reclaim your settings, files, and apps from the clone (plug in the external at the point of the last install restart).
If you do not like SL, then you can restore your internal using the clone. I would do all cloning and related restoration with SuperDuper or some other up-to-date cloning app. Your clone also will serve as an independent backup for your data.
I want to mention that upgrading is a sound process on a Mac. Still, I also would insist on having a bootable clone on an external before upgrading. An upgrade is performed by installing over your existing installation from the desktop or having started from your SL DVD. All you programs, data, and settings will be present after an upgrade, but incompatible programs will be archived.
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Installing Snow Leopard on external HD for games?

Hi, I just bought a new Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, and I have some old games (like Neverwinter Nights) that used Rosetta and won't run on this machine. I'm wondering if I could install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive, boot up my Macbook from it, and run the games that way. Would it work and how would the perfornance be, seeing as it's running from an external?

No sorry, 10.6 doesn't have the hardware drivers for your newer hardware.
However there is a unsuported hack to get 10.6 running in Parallels virtual machine software, but you will lose performance naturally.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

Snow Leopard Question - No Forum for it so posting here?

I am happy and excited for Snow Leopard. I know the upgrade will be $29 for all Leopard users. Usually for all my apps inluding the operating system, I would always buy the full product, so if I had Aperture 1.0 I would sell it and buy the full version of Aperture 2.0. My question is: Will Snow Leopard be sold as a standalone full OS (not just an upgrade?).
Is the upgrade just the same as the full software when installing, it just detects if you have the previous software and installs as if it were the full? Or does it just "patch" things depending on what's different from previous versions? How do they work does anyone know? It's all about doing clean installs and starting fresh!

We don't know. Speculation about future product is forbidden here. We can only discuss what is publicly available. For such information see Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard. Do I go for it?

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