Snow leopard or mavericks for my imac?

should i move to mavericks? have 2 gb memory

Before deciding which is best for you...
Make sure you have a Bootable Clone Backup of your Current OS X
See here for the compatibility of 3rd party Software you may be using...
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
NOTE that Rosetta is no longer supported in Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion.
Would recommend at least 4GB of RAM... if not 8 GB for Mavericks.
It is important to get the Correct and Matching RAM
See Here  >  OWC RAM  >  http://www.macsales.com
The above site also has videos on how to Install RAM should you need it...

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    When attempting to upgrade my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, I receive the message "This disk is used for Time Machine Backups" when I try to select the lone available hard drive.  I have ensured that Time Machine is turned off.  Upon some Google research, some who reported this problem were told to delete the folder backup.backupdb, but I do not have this folder on my Mac.  Any suggestions?

    The folder would be at the root of your hard drive. Double-click Macintosh HD and look there.
    If it isn’t there, I’m not sure what it is seeing.

  • If I would update Snow Leopard to Mavericks, would I have this?

    Hello, everybody!
    As I got no real experience comments from people who updated Mac OS from Snow Leopard to Mavericks on a MacBook White Unibody, on this discussion, now I'm trying to be more concise, and ask you for more specific questions on the matter.
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    VoiceOver Voices in different languages, as they come from factory since Lion, or stayed just with the English ones I have now?
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    Chess app in Spanish too, as it comes from factory since Lion, or it still remains only in English, as now?
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    Timer Coalescing, App Nap, Compressed Memory, GateKeeper, app's sandboxing, Automatic Versions… or any of those is not allowed on my MacBook White unibody?
    The ability to see the complete miniature windows opened on the same desk as easy as sliding up four fingers on the trackpad (as I can see now the ones opened on the same "Space")?
    To update my RAM? Now I have 2 Gb, and I saw it is exactly the requirment of Mavericks. I'm not sure which was the requirement of Snow Leopard, which actually runs pretty fine.
    This is enough now for helping me to take or not the decission. Thank you all.

    app nap - appears to work with Mavericks according to Apple:
    http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
    I've been looking for it again. You say App Nap would work on my macbook white, it seems it wouldn't, according to:
    http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
    Power Nap
    Supported by the following Mac models:
    MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
    MacBook Pro with Retina display
    iMac (Late 2012 or newer)
    Mac Pro (Late 2013)
    Mac mini (Late 2012)
    At least, one question less :-). I'm not quite as sure with all  the rest of new odd and eds…
    PPC apps haven't been supported since Lion was introduced (2011).
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    iWeb has been discontinued. So has iDVD, but if you have it installed, it still works. Front Row was discontinued. No idea about X11.
    PowerPC applications are supported on Snow Leopard, my actual OS. As apple does not mention anything about on http://www.apple.com/osx/http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/, I can easily guess that same thing could happen with other apps, like FrontRaw, iWeb or the others apps I mentioned. For me, it sounds strange that apple offers its best ultimate OS just for free. I think there's something hidden for user like me, with Snow Leopard., for instance, not to update Voice over Voices, PhotoBooth or anything else…
    I'd like to be completely sure of what i'd have, for example if I'd have spanish dictionary and VoiceOver voices before updating. If not, probably it does worth to do so.
    Sorry, but how do you propose having more than one app at full screen at a time?
    By means of something we call SPACES on Snow Leopard, and you called MISSION CONTROL, if I'm not wrong, on Lion and upper. You can switch among different desks running every one a different app on FullScreen, can't you?
    By the way, which OS did your macbook pro come with from factory? the one that is running mavericks now.

  • I want to upgrade from snow leopard to Mavericks, but only Yosemite is available!!

    How do I upgrade snow leopard to Mavericks on one of my older macbooks? I note that Mavericks is no longer available via the App store, only Yosemite, and I do not want the latter. My latest macbooks all have Mavericks pre-installed, and I want parity on all.

    OS X 10.9 Mavericks is no longer an available, downloadable OS version.
    You can choose to decide and download the free OS X 10.10 Yosemite OR pay to download either OS X 10.7 Lion  or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
    Before embarking on a major OS upgrade, it would be wise, advisable and very prudent if you backup your current system to an external connected and Mac formatted Flash drive OR externally connected USB, Thunderbolt or FireWire 800, Mac formatted hard drive. Then, use either OS X Time Machine app to backup your entire system to the external drive OR purchase, install and use a data cloning app, like CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, to make an exact and bootable copy (clone) of your entire Mac's internal hard drive. This step is really needed in case something goes wrong with the install of the new OS or you simply do not like the new OS, you have a very easy way/procedure to return your Mac to its former working state.
    Then, determine if your Mac meets ALL minimum system install requirements.
    OS X 10.7 Lion system requirements
    Purchased emailed download code here.
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
    To use OS X 10.7 Lion, make sure your computer has the following:
    An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
    Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended)
    7 GB of available disk space
    2 GB of RAM
    To install OS X  10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks (free upgrade, but currently unavailable) or OS X 10.10 Yosemite (currently available free upgrade) you need one of these Macs:
    OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion purchased emailed download code here.
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
    iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
    MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
    MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
    MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
    Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
    Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
    Xserve (Early 2009)
    Your Mac also needs:
    OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
    2 GB or more of memory (I strongly advise, at least, 4 GBs of RAM or more)
    8 GB or more of available space
    Next,
    If you run any older Mac software from the earlier PowerPC Macs, then none of this software will work with the newer OS X versions (10.7 and onward). OS X Snow Leopard had a magical and invisible PowerPC emulation application, called Rosetta, that worked seamlessly in the background that still allowed older PowerPC coded software to still operate in a Intel CPU Mac.
    The use of Rosetta ended with OS X Snow Leopard as the Rosetta application was licensed to Apple, from a software company called Transitive, which got bought out, I believe, by IBM and Appe  could no longer secure their rights to continue to use Rosetta in later versions of OS X.
    So, you would need to check to see if you have software on your Mac that maybe older than, say, 2006 or older.
    Also, check for app compatibilty  here.
    http://roaringapps.com/
    If you have any commercial antivirus installed and/or hard drive cleaning apps installed on your Mac, like MacKeeper, CleanMyMac, TuneUpMyMac, MacCleanse, etc. now would be a good time to completely uninstall these apps by doing a Google search to learn how to properly uninstall these types of apps.
    These types of apps will only cause your Mac issues later after the install of the new OS X version and you will have to completely uninstall these types of apps later.
    Once you have determined all of this, you should be able to find the latest versions of OS X by clicking on the Mac App Store icon in the OS X Dock and then login to the Mac App Store using your Apple ID and password and if you purchased a download code, input that code.
    You can then begin the download and installation process of installing the newer versions of OS X from the Mac App Store.
    Good Luck!

  • Recently i upgraded my operating system from snow leopard to mavericks.  no my adobe creative suite 4 programs do not launch. it gives me an error code of 150.30 which has to do with licensing.  I tried to download adobe license repair app but

    Recently I upgraded from snow leopard to Mavericks . Since the upgrade my Adobe Creative Suite 4 will not launch any programs. I downloaded adobe license recovery it says " this program is no longer supported " .
    At this point I am ready to go back to snow leopard if that will fix the problem.   What do I do ?

    A long thread with some fixes for various problems including licenseing, it may help.
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/24181438#24181438

  • Dual Boot with Snow Leopard and Mavericks not possible?

    I have a Early 2011 Macbook Pro with 2,3 GHz i7 Quad and two 512 GB SSDs (the secondary disk in an optical drive bay enclosure). This Macbook Pro can run Snow Leopard and Mavericks on the primary disk without problems. When I try to set up a dual boot system however, problems appear and it looks like it is not possible. When I start from Snow Leopard, I cannot select Mavericks as a start volume and vice versa. The error message says something like "Bless tool" cannot use this disk, i.e. unmount and boot from it. The problem remains when I exchange the disks (putting the primary disk in the drive enclosure and vice versa). When I put the secondary drive in an external case however, it is possible to boot from it -  but strange things happen when the system starts: My computer clock is reset to 1/1/2001, WiFI passwords are not remembered for more than one session, disk permissions are reported as "repaired" but do apear as not repaired when I check them again - and other issues). I have verified both disks already and repaired permissions but that does not change the situation. So my experience is different from what is said in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/566781. It looks like the latest Mavericks cannot coexist with Snow Leopard on neiter a secondary internal drive nor on an external drive. This is strange since both disks and systems work flawless when run alone. Any suggestions to solve this problem?

    When I check the Mavericks disk in the optical drive with disk utility after booting / running Snow Leopard on the primary disk I get som errors, see below ("disk utility Info"). So after all, I decided to erase the disk and install Mavericks new. But even erasing the disk is not possible when it is in the optical drive enclosure. I get this error message:
    "Volume Erase failed with the error:
    Could not unmount disk"
    When I put this disk into an external case connected via USB however, it starts and runds MAvericks without any Problem. Same happens when I put thie Mavericks disk into the internal primary hard disk place.
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    Performing live verification.
    Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
    Checking extents overflow file.
    Unused node is not erased (node = 40)
    Checking catalog file.
    Unused node is not erased (node = 30)
    Checking multi-linked files.
    Checking catalog hierarchy.
    Checking extended attributes file.
    Unused node is not erased (node = 8)
    Checking volume bitmap.
    Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
    Checking volume information.
    The volume Samsung SSD Daten was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
    Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
    Verify and Repair volume “Samsung SSD Daten”
    Error: Could not unmount disk

  • Installing Snow Leopard over Mavericks

    I messed up my Mavericks installation by using CleanMyMac, and cannot user software update, download from the App Store, use Preview or a number of different apps. System Restore does not work for some reason, maybe CMM messed that up too.
    I am going to reinstall Snow Leopard, then redownload Mavericks. And never use CleanMyMac again!!!
    I cannot erase my hard drive, the button is grayed out. Can I just reinstall Snow Leopard over Mavericks - I don't care about backing up any data.
    Thanks

    If you have the Snow Leopard install disks you can proceed as described above. It makes no difference that the Mac came with Leopard (you just can't install a system older than the one the Mac came with). However you will need to erase the disk: you can't install an older system over a newer one.

  • I upgraded from snow leopard to mavericks only to find that my backup files of all my CS3 indesign, illustrator, photoshop wo't run, how do I uninstall mavericks and get my old system back

    I upgraded from snow leopard to mavericks only to find that my backup files of all my CS3 indesign, illustrator, photoshop wo't run, how do I uninstall mavericks and get my old system back.  I retired from graphics a few years back but still have old clients I do work for and maintain files for.  Would not have upgraded if I had known of the incompatability.

    You did not due any due dilligence to investigate if your legacy apps would run, you should upgrade your apps. However if you feel you have to downgrade back to SL then click
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162
    for directions.

  • How to update from snow leopard to mavericks

    I  just downloaded anew version of safari, but now I can't use it because I have OS 10.6.8 snow leopard, and it needs 10.9 mavericks. I have heard I can download it for free from the App store, and go from snow leopard to mavericks. I can't seem to find the download anywhere here? Can anyone help me with this?

    Your computer can’t be upgraded past 10.6.8. If desired, switch to a product such as Firefox.
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  • HT6065 I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks OS X, and lost all of my "on my mac" mail boxes.  How do I restore them?

    I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks OS X, and lost all of my "on my mac" mail boxes.  How do I restore them?

    The answer was more complicated.  I had to have an Apple Care tech help me onscreen.  Had to go to Time Machine to restore (which I had tried, but couldn't find the right files to import.  The Mail icon was barred).  They helped me find them.  It was very complicated, with many steps involved.  I never could have figured it out on my own.  Even the tech was not sure how, or if it would work. And it took about 1/2 hour for the stuff to download. But, the problem was solved eventually
    .  Thanks again for your help!

  • Can I still upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks, with Yosemite out?

    Hi there,
    my girlfriend is running Snow Leopard (10.6.8 I believe) on a MacBook 2009. Now she finally wanted an upgrade to a newer OS. However, I've read in several reviews that Yosemite is not running very smoothly on some older Macs. So I thought upgrading to Mavericks might be a better deal.
    So my question is:
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    Thanks!

    Nope. Mavericks is no longer available for download unless you had downloaded it in the past. If Yosemite doesn't do well on an older Mac, then neither will Mavericks. Consider rolling back to Snow Leopard.
    You may try calling Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. They may be able to help you with getting Mavericks for now.

  • How to re install Snow Leopard with Mavericks running?

    Hello,
    Not long after it was introduced I upgraded my Macbookpro from Snow Leopard to Mavericks.
    (Apart from that it also has a Bootcamp partition with MS Windows 7)
    But Compared to any other Mac around me, mine has been extremely slow and the Mavericks upgrade did not solve that.
    It has Microsoft Office for Mac and Mackeeper and I suspect either of those could have something to do with it.
    To see if that helps I want to do a complete reinstall of the OS X.
    I already made a full backup of both the Mac and the Bootcamp side.
    But when I load the original Snow Leopard install DVD it says it can't do the install because it there is a later version (being Mavericks) running.
    What should I do?
    Thanks,
    Sander

    Thanks a lot for your quick responses.
    I was able to do what Mende proposed and have also removed Mackeeper.
    I don't know what the cause was but the Mac appears to be back to it's normal speed now.
    However, stragely enough, when I start up using the option key to choose between the MacHD and Windows partition, I suddenly have three partitions to choose from.
    Mac HD, Windows and a new one called Recovery which of course I would like to get rid of without damaging anything.
    Do you know how to do that safely?
    Thanks again

  • How can I create a disk image of snow leopard installer disk from my Imac which runs it?

    how can I create a disk image of snow leopard installer disk from my Imac which runs it? It came without DVD installer, and I want to make a copy of it's OS installer but can't find out how.

    You need to have the disc in order to create disk image of snow leopard installer disc. What did your machine ship with? If something later than SL, then why? If earlier, then you can buy the SL installer disc and make the disk image.

  • Is it possible to use the snow leopard install disk for bootcamp setup?

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    Do you mean a "Retail OSX Snow Leopard Install DVD for USD 29" ?
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1899
    Stefan

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    Running Mac OS X 10.7.2 on my MacBook Air, Control-Shift-W produces a Snow Leopard-like expose for all windows.
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