Snow Leopard Restore going over 100%

I recently wiped my drive clean of Leopard, installed a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on the clean drive and then allowed Time Machine to make a backup. However, now when I try to restore the drive from the Time Machine backup, the restore % continues over 100% and doesen't stop until I click the stop button. Thus, I can not restore the backup from Time Machine.
Help! Any ideas?

Ginchez wrote:
I recently wiped my drive clean of Leopard, installed a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on the clean drive and then allowed Time Machine to make a backup. However, now when I try to restore the drive from the Time Machine backup, the restore % continues over 100% and doesen't stop until I click the stop button. Thus, I can not restore the backup from Time Machine.
Help! Any ideas?
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
How are you doing the restore? Booted from the SL disc > Utilities > Restore from backups?
How long did the initial backup take, and how long did you let the restore run?

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Time Machine Restore going past 100% !!!!???

so i am restoring my computer from a time machine back up and its way over 100% !??? and it has been a while i would say (7 hours) since i started it lol. Anhy ideas ?

hayesburrow wrote:
so i am restoring my computer from a time machine back up and its way over 100% !??? and it has been a while i would say (7 hours) since i started it lol. Anhy ideas ?
Are you doing a "full system restore," where you boot from your Snow Leopard Install disc and use the +Utilities > Restore from backups+ option? If not, ignore the rest of this and tell us exactly what you are doing.
We can't tell whether that's a reasonable amount of time without details. How much data was on your internal HD? Where are your backups? If you have a large system, and are restoring from a Time Capsule (or other network drive), especially via WIFI, that will take a long time.
Do you remember how long it took to do the first backup? Adjusting for how much you may have added since then, the restore should take roughly the same amount of time.
Can you click on +Window > Show Log > Show All logs+ in the menubar? (Allow considerable time for each click to be recognized).
If not, there may be a problem with your backups. I'd be inclined to start over, but add a step. See #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
(If you're restoring from a Time Capsule, connect to it via an Ethernet cable if at all possible. If you're restoring from a USB drive connected to a Time Capsule or Airport Extreme, connect it directly to your Mac.)
In the green box in #14, you won't be doing step (c), but instead select +Disk Utility+ and in it's sidebar, your Time Machine drive. Do a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) on it. Then go back to the Utilities tab and proceed to steps (d) through (h) as you did the first time.
Watch the results in the log; note the last step it's on (if it goes weird again, that may help diagnose where the problem is.)

OS X Snow Leopard restore disks from different conputer.

I bought a new 13 in. Macbook. The Box got thrown out while I wasn't home, and without anybody checking to see what was still in it. There was the manual, the extension chord and the OS X Snow Leopard and Ilife restore disks. I bought some restore disks that came with a different computer but same model and they do not work. When I try to use the Ilife disk it says "cannot install software on this computer. When I try to install OS X I get a similar message. Is there away to get these disks to work? Do I have to buy retail versions from apple? I was originally going to reinstall Ilife because Iphoto wasn't working so I erased it.

Slipperynixon wrote:
I bought some restore disks that came with a different computer but same model and they do not work.
By "same model" do you mean exactly the same model or just some other MacBook model, probably an older one? They must be for exactly the same model or they will not work, in part because the hardware in the newest Macs is not fully supported by the OS version on the older discs.
You should know that the sale was probably shady -- the licence for the grey system discs that come with a Mac prohibit selling those discs separately -- so you most likely can't trust anything the seller said about them. The exception would be a reseller that bought excess inventory from Apple or its distributors, along with 'fresh' licenses to use them, but any reputable reseller would be upfront about that & which specific Macs they would work with.

How do I recover Apple's stock python after accidentally deleting it from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework? Is a Snow Leopard restore the only option?

I accidentally and foolishly deleted my COMPLETE folders: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5 and /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6. Almost 10,000 files were trashed, and only three files would not go through. One of them was the 2.5 python executable. So I put this file back to its original location from trash, but it won't execute (probably for a reason - since Python is missing its remaining files).
I have a python.org python2.7 up and running, but my understanding is that Snow Leopard needs its stock apple provided python for the system to function properly.
Is my only to format my hard drive and restore Snow Leopard from scratch?

I'm actually not trying to do anything other than compile a python script for analyzing scientific data. I am a BIOLOGIST and have absolutely no interest in python for the sake of python. I just need to analyze my data. To get there, I need python/numpy/scipy/wxpython/matplotlib and many other things. I don't know why this seems so "suspicious"??? It's a free world - people are allowed to mess with things. It's not like I am threatening Apple - I made a mistake. Plain and simple. What's the big deal???
I was deleting some skeleton files that were leftover from previous versions of programs and libraries. And that's how I ran into the python2.5 and 2.6. I thought - I will never use these pythons again - why do I have 2.5 files still on my system. I thought I was in /Library/Python, but I was actually in /System/Library/Frameworks. By the time I realized I had wiped out the system's python, it was too late - trash was emptied permanently.
I am in no way trying to "experiment" with apple's python. I know apple's python can happily coexist with python.org or macports python.
In general, I get frustrated with trying to run python bioinformatics scripts on my Mac because there is always an issue. It's either that python is running in 64 bit mode and the scripts are too old. Or, the default apple provided gcc screws up. Quite frankly - Apple and Python are not always best friends.
I used to have a multitude of pythons through fink and macports but I wiped them all out and installed python.org's python27. I also switched to github for all my dependencies and libraries.
In the future, I'll just find a Linux machine to run bioinformatics. I love my Mac, but so far, I have had nothing but nightmares with Python and Apple trying to be friends. Linux is so much better for these types of activities. I can even do a Virtualbox Ubuntu on my MBP and take it from there...
For example, many bioinformatics scripts were made with Carbon and require Carbon. But guess what? Apple kept support for 64-bit Cocoa, but only supports 32-bit Carbon. That makes life ****. Why have a 64 bit architecture with no support for it?

Help deinstalling Snow leopard and going back to Tiger OSX10.4.11

I have just reinstalled Tiger OSX 10.4.11 on my IMac as snow leopard made my machine to slow and crash too often. Now that I have, I cannot seem to open Iphoto. I know my photos of in the memory as I can see them on the previous system file. But I cannot open Iphoto? Can anyone help me with this please?

Hi twosparks, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions. (Well, the Installer actually uses superuser Permissions to do it's work, but after reboot it doesn't guarantee communication with other existing needed files Permissions.)
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.
May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD, but saves all your files and gives a new OS...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order before installing.
If all the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.

Mac goes over 100 percent cpu usage

As seen in the picture, the game called 'runescape' which i was playing reached 171 percent cpu usage on my computer. My computer never crashed from playing this game but crashes alot while playing Dota 2, once when I crashed from dota 2, the computer lagged showing my activity monitor which showed that dota had 100.1 percent cpu usage. Is this a problem of the game or the computer? Multiple friends of mine have played this game and never once crashed on it.

It is a problem with games in general: they use a lot of CPU power (and heat the CPU up correspondingly). Over 100% is not very spectacular, because modern CPUs have 2, 4 or 8 cores, and each has a maximum of 100%. If you have a 4 cores cpu the run escape is taking almost 45% which is a lot.

Snow Leopard not installing over Leopard

Since Leopard isn't doing any software updates, I decided to install 4BG Ram and then I found a local computer store that still had Snow Leopard to sell. (Lucked out there!) The ram installed successfully but, when I put the Snow Leopard disk in, it won't install. It let me go through the steps to set it up and, when I click "Install", it just sits there. The progress bar doesn't move and the time remaining stays at 45 minutes. The computer sits quietly. I left it that way for an hour just in case, but, nothing. Any tips? I called the store and they said my optical drive might not be reading the disk. I can't bring my computer in because I take city transportation and have to walk quite a ways. Any help offered would be appreciated!
I haven't had ANY problems with Leopard at all. I'm just upgrading to Snow Leopard so I can then upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.7 do I have to go to Snow Leopard before going to Lion?

If I'm not running on Mac OS X 10.6.7 , do I have to purchase and install Snow Leopard first before I can install Lion?

You need to have Snow Leopard, but I think 10.6.7 is Snow Leopard. You should run software update before downloading Lion (I think that will take you to 10.6.8). You should also check that you do not have old PPC software (see "About this Mac" under tha Apple menu). You should clone your hard drive to an external drive so that if something does go wrong you can revert to Snow Leopard. Having said that, I had very few problems and all were very minor.
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IPhone crashes during updates requiring restore & going over capacity

During the last two update 7.0.3 and 7.0.4 my phone failed mid update requiring a restore. This is a major headache. I am using an iPhone 4S and really don't have the time to keep having to restore the phone which takes a looooong time.
Moreover with the 7.0.4 update the phone mysteriously went from 1GB of space free to 500mb overcapacity.
Since I use my phone near capacity this is a real frustration for me.
Usually during restores if anything I find that the software seems to compact the space used when the apps are reloaded.
Not this time.
What happened?

I finally rid the error (Windows Firewall was blocking iTunes).
I did the restore but I'm still getting weird capacity ratings. They are constantly changing too.
Now it says it's not over capacity, but I have 0.36gb to spare - except it won't upload all of my songs and it's stuck at 3600 songs. When my library was 5700 songs.
Then after that, it said that everything was uploaded and I had 14gb to spare, which changes to 13gb to spare depending on when I connect it to my iPhone. (But again, not all of my stuff is uploaded).
So I know there's definitely a problem here, because the over capacity is not consistent.

TS4185 Just downloaded FACETIME on my 4yr. olf Imac running Snow Leopard. When making a call to my friend's Imac all works correctly going both ways. When my wife calls me via Facetime from her Ipad, I cannot click on "accept"- not there?

Just downloaded FACETIME on my 4yr. olf Imac running Snow Leopard. When making a call to my friend's Imac all works correctly going both ways. When my wife calls me via Facetime from her Ipad, I cannot click on "accept"- not there? When called by the Imac (newest), the "accept" or "reject" radio button appears for me to click and connect. On my wife's Ipad the two radio buttons always appear when a call actiivates Facetime and comes on?
There is nothing I can find in "Preferences" in Facetime to turn that on or off. I suspect it has to do with having a more current operating system; that the "controls" are in the operating system? [I'm guessing] It's frustrating getting Facebook calls from several friends on Ipads! Any ideas...VFP

I suspect it has to do with not having a more current operating system
Exactly, what Apple is doing is leveraging new features only on newer OS X versions to force you to upgrade OS X to 10.7 or later.
What they don't tell you is 10.7 or later will NOT run your PowerPC based software, some of it you can't get Intel versions like for perfectly working printers, scanners and games etc. So it can be a very expensive OS X upgrade to 10.7 or later with third party software.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Also they don't tell you is the risk in bricking your machine if the update goes badly, so you have to have AppleCare in case that occurs so it's on them to fix it. Else your paying money to replace the logicboard or buying a new machine prematurely.
A four year old machine can't have AppleCare, it's only good for 3 years from date of purchase new.
Your machine came with a boot hard drive, it's usually got about 4-5 years of life on it, then it needs to be replaced.
Also they don't tell you the newer OS X version has more abilities and features that causes your machine to slow down in performance, especially on older machines.
Also they implement new, idotic and extremely fustrating new user interface features in a arbitrary "you take it or leave it" manner with little or no fall back method.
So upgrading OS X is a gamble on older machines that otherwise would likely work perfectly fine for the next 5 years if one didn't need to have to mess with it.
Since Snow Leopard has slightly over 25% OS X version market share, your still good for security updates etc for the next few years if you just want to stay where your at and be happy.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still
The Lions are, well, not so welcome due to Scott Forstall retard UI issues, OS X Mavericks 10.9 is likely going to fix things a bit better.
But basically what is occuring is Apple is trying to force a faster hardware upgrade cycle with the more expensive products by leveraging features on the smaller devices that expire sooner.
Apple is a hardware company that leverages whatever it can to get you to buy more hardware, it's why they are as rich as they are.

Can I revert back to Snow Leopard from Lion?

Hey guys,
Last night i upgraded to Lion. Have since found out my Focusrite 24 DSP audio interface wont work with Lion (No Drivers yet).... can i simply re-install Leopard from the install discs that came with my imac until such time as drivers become available for my hardware, then re-install Lion? Can this be done without clearing my entire hard-drive and starting again?
Cheers
Sean

mscys wrote:
If you have a complete Time Machine backup of your previous Snow Leopard system, going back to SL is really quite easy.
Just boot from the Lion Recovery partition (option key at startup) and choose to restore from Time Machine backup. (You'll be able to see your last dated and identified SL backup, even if you'd already been using TM with Lion.) It will erase the drive for you and restore a bootable SL. No DVD required.
Works great.
(If you don't have a complete TM backup, then you'll have to wipe the drive, install SL and updates, then use Migration Assistant to bring over your partial TM backup, ie: does not include system and apps.)
Thanks very much for this. I've just restored Snow Leopard from Time Machine, and it only took 30 mins. Worked perfectly. Now I have an OS that works properly (hooray!).
Bob.

External hard drive & time machine (updating to snow leopard)

I have just bought a non-Apple external hard drive, but haven't used it yet (still packed up!). I am about to update to Snow Leopard and wondered what was best to do with backing up my hard drive (mixture of music, important files etc.).
Is it worth using time machine, or just back up the files myself, or a mixture of both? Also what about partitioning etc?
Guidance would be appreciated to a new Apple user, and moderately literate computer user!

definitely back up the whole system. do not back up piece meal. that's bad for a number of reasons. First, it's VERY easy to miss something important that way. second, if your snow leopard install goes bad or you want to go back to leopard for a while for whatever reason (say, some apps you use are not yet SL compatible), it's very easy to do if you have a full backup and quite unpleasant if you don't have one.
You can use Time Machine or make a bootable clone using CCCloner or Superduper.
Both Time machine and a clone give you an easy way to restore your old system exactly as it was at the backup time.
the external drive should be formatted mac os extended journaled with GUID partition scheme. most new drives are formatted with MBR partition scheme so you'll likely have to completely reformat yours with disk utility.
For more info consult FAQs link at the top of the TM forum page.
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Problem printing borderless PDF w/ Snow Leopard + Acrobat Pro 9 + MS Office

Create a borderless Word doc in MS Office 2008 (text or images go all the way to the edge).
Using OS X 10.5, you can select "Print to PDF" and it will print a borderless PDF. Beautiful.
Using OX X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), that's now impossible because Snow Leopard is incompatible with the Acrobat 9 PDF print engine. (See this article: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html )
Is there a solution?
This is a Snow Leopard problem, so Apple must be responsible for the solution. It worked beautifully with 10.5, and now an upgrade renders it entirely useless.
Please help urgently.

ozxx wrote:
I use US Letter and A4 page sizes frequently, but have been known to use other sizes as well. A custom hack would be great, thank-you.
Download CUPS-PDF from the link above. Download my PPD file with borderless A4 and US Letter from: http://etresoft.org/opensource/PostscriptBorderless.zip
Copy the PPD file somewhere convenient on your system. Go to System Preferences > Print & Fax > + (to add a printer).
Select CUPS-PDF. In the Print Using pop-up, select "Other" and choose my PPD file. Click the Add button.
Now when you print to CUPS-PDF, you will be able to select borderless A4 and borderless US letter. Your PDF files will show up in /Users/Shared/CUPS-PDF/<your user account>/
Although the underlying issue still remains.
That Adobe's PDF Printer doesn't work? Yes. I agree.
(To be honest, I think both of the companies should be working on solutions as urgently as possible as it's disrespectful to their long-term customers.)
Again, I agree. While I am certainly biased towards Apple, in most cases (and especially this case), it is Adobe that needs to get their act in gear. Snow Leopard was released over a year ago. Adobe had pre-release copies long before that. Their PDF printer still doesn't work. Some random guys on the internet (the authors of CUPS-PDF for MacOS X and me) were about to make the 5 minute (no exaggeration!) changes required to produce a functional virtual printer for Snow Leopard. Why can't Adobe?
Feel free to forward that to Adobe http://www.adobe.com/bin/webfeedback.cgi

How to make Snow Leopard fast again?

When I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard about a year ago, I was amazed at how much faster Snow Leopard was. Everything was so fast and responsive.
A year later and my iMac is running slow. What I'd like to know is, why? What is it that makes Snow Leopard run slower over time? How do you get that responsiveness back?

See:
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Mac OS X speed FAQ,
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Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X .

Network printing problem with Snow Leopard

Hi everybody,
I am setting up a home network, mostly wired, with XP desktop and Macbook Pro (SL) and so far everything is OK except for the printer.
It’s a Canon Pixma IP3000 plugged over USB on a D-link router (604UP) configured as a switch.
* This printer works over the network with any XP computer. All I need is the router IP (192.168.1.3) and the queue name (lp1);
* This printer works over the network with the Macbook on virtual OS (XP on Parallels desktop), same parameters as above;
* This printer works with the Macbook on Snow Leopard when connected over USB (with the latest drivers from Apple BTW);
* This printer doesn’t work over network with the Macbook on Snow Leopard.
I have already tried several fixes and none worked so far. In the “Add printer windows”:
* The default tab shows nothing;
* The Windows tab shows my workgroup and the XP computers and that’s it;
* A manual configuration with the IP tab, using IP “192.168.1.3” and “lp1” for queue stops when I select the printer driver : a small windows pops up a tenth of second and I am brought back to the “select the printer software” list;
* A manual configuration with the Advanced tab using the address smb://192.168.1.3/ip3000 brings back a “NTSTATUS_ACCESSDENIED” error, that’s the best I got right now. I have tried several variant with different printer name or adding the workgroup name in the address, to no effect.
As the printer is connected to a router and not another computer, I don’t have any username or password. Or have I ?
Or it could be something very stupid as I am newb to networking and Mac OS X. Anyway I am lost and I thank you in advance.

Hello monsieurpaul and welcome to Apple Discussions.
As strange as it may seem, the error can be caused by the driver. The Canon driver for your model has not been designed to work with mixed networks. It will only work with a direct USB connection to the Mac. When connected to the Dlink router, the driver cannot communicate correctly with the printer and will cause all sorts of errors. Therefore you need to use a CUPS based driver, such as those provided by Gutenprint.
So, I would add the printer queue again, using the same configuration that Windows uses (IP - 192.168.1.3/lp1) but for the Print Using menu, type 3000 and select the entry showing 'Canon PIXMA iP3000 - Gutenprint'.
Hope this helps.
Pahu

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