Upgrading to Snow Leopard while doing initial back-up
I'm doing an initial back up on Time Machine. Is it O.K. to do an upgrade to Snow Leopard at the same time or do I have to stop the back up? Also, how do I know which files have been backed up? Help, please!
Great news Shirley, glad I could help, thanks!
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Logic not working after upgrade to Snow Leopard
I resisted upgrading to Snow Leopard while working on a few projects and just did yesterday. As feared, Logic is not working. It goes through the opening sequence and then when I try to open a project it crashes. I;ve tried rebooting. Same problem. Any ideas? Do I need to reinstall Snow Leopard? Or am I faced with reloading Logic? Any local caches I can delete to try and reset it on next start? Thanks so much.
Did you check out the links?
The first link I posted specifically says upgrading to Snow Leopard.
Here it is again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3968
It may not be the solution but the fix is for Snow Leopard. -
Since upgrading to snow leopard, my system will roll down a transparent screen and it says you must power off computer, its usually when Im on a website doing something
I believe you are seeing a kernel panic.
"You need to restart your computer" (kernel panic) message appears (Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6)
The X Lab: Resolving Kernel Panics -
I upgraded to Snow Leopard and lost addresses in Address Book. I'm told I have 4.1.2 and can't use this version. I still have my addresses in Time Machine and it will not recover. How do I update Address Book?
Ooops!
First Timer mistake.
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After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion I cannot access a PGP drive which was generated under snow leopard. PGP does not start. When I try to start I just receive a message that Lion cannot work with PGP. How can I now access important and confifential informatio which I have stored in PGP (snow leopard). Do I have to move back to snow leopard. If so, how can I do this?
If you have this product,
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH165159
you have to go back to Snow Leopard.
To re-install SL, back up your home directory, format and re-install. -
Upgraded to Snow Leopard and now I can't back up
Recently I upgraded to Snow Leopard after my hard drive crashed in my MacPro. I had the hard drive replaced and then imported the old information to the new one via Time Machine. All went well. I have been backing up on a Lacie 160 GB external hard drive for years, and like it's designed to, when it's full, the older backups got deleted to make way for new ones.
Now when I try to back up to the Lacie since the upgrade and the installation of the new internal drive, I get error messages that tell me the device is too full, and I cannot back up.
Does anyone know how I would go about solving this? My thought it that by deleting all of the old backups on my Lacie, I would then free up enough space for Tim Machine to start working like normal again. But I do not want to do this until I talk with people more experienced than I about the advisability of this action. Any advice?Hi, and welcome to the forums.
See #C4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). -
HI, SO I BOUGHT MOUNTAIN LION ON MY MACBOOK PRO TRYING TO UPGRADE FROM SNOW LEOPARD, AND WHILE TRYING TO REINSTALL THE OS SETUP AS IT SHOWED IT COULDNT BE VERIFIED, I CROSSED OUT MOUNTAIN LION FROM MY PURCHASES, ITS NOW GONE, DO I HAVE TO BUY IT AGAIN?
Please google search for "Mountain Lion disk crash" before upgrading you mac pro. You might need to replace you Mac hard drive after the upgrade.So many people had the same problems including me.
Be aware of the Mountain Lion upgrade problem. -
Does anyone else think that the AppleMac group of products are marketed in a greedy way? I have MacBook Pro 10.5.8 with Leopard and am now told that I have to upgrade to Snow Leopard so that my system can download the relevant iTunes upgrade to sync my new iPad and get my audiobooks (which don't appear anywhere on the device right now). Of course there isn't enough memory on the MacBook and Snow Leopard costs more also? I don't have financial resources to pay for all the new memory requirement and related upgrades they say I need just to sync my iPad with my purchases.
Thanks for the reply but I already knew this. $20 for Snow Leopard which asks for 5gb free memory. I can only see that I have 4 gb (which I feel is rather a pathetic amount of available memory for any computer). To upgrade this computer's memory will cost another fee (I haven't researched this yet but gather it's more than $20). Then of course I could also be told that the OSX Mackbook Pro that I have can't be memory upgraded - which means I'm being told to buy a new computer - hence my very frustrated last email. I have been given a lovely iPad 2 as a present and now can't sync at all with anything because of this ongoing upgrade nightmare. How on earth am I going to be able to sync my movies, audiobooks etc to this new device??
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i just upgraded from snow leopard v10.6.8 to os x mountain lion and my scroll bar has disappeared on all my applications on the internet. does anyone know a patch to get the scroll bar to work.
Open General preferences in System Preferences. You can set the desired scrollbar behavior there.
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My 'old' files have been backed up onto time capsule (Leopard), I have upgraded to Lion (thro snow leopard) and now checking back to retosre some old files i can't see or access beyond the date I upgraded to Lion? Help please?
Use the manual methods.. but it is possible for TM to wipe the old files in trying to fit into the space.
Try Q16.. but read all the section 14-17
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html -
I just upgraded to snow leopard and some of my printers disappeared and I am unable to get them back any ideas
Hello DaveDue
Start your troubleshooting with the article below, you may need to download the printer drivers directly from the manufactures website.
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
Regards,
-Norm G. -
I recently upgraded to Mavericks from Snow Leopard. Does Snow Leopard still exist on my Mac? If so, is it possible to restart under Snow Leopard in order to run PowerPC apps? If not, is there an OS available in 64 bit that supports PowerPC apps? Mav ***.
The only reason I upgraded to Mavericks was because my Snow Leopard OS was 32 bit, which I was told would support only 4GB of RAM.
That wasn't quite right. You can put in as much RAM as your Mac's hardware supports. The division is in the apps themselves. A 32 bit app can't use more than 4 GB or RAM. A 64 bit app can use much more.
For example, as a 32 bit only version, Photoshop CS3 can't use more 4GB of RAM, no matter how much you actually have installed. CS4 or later can use all the RAM you want to throw at it. -
Why does my iMac no longer recognize my external disk device after upgrading to Snow Leopard?
I've used an external hard drive for my Time Machine back-up for a few years. After I upgraded to Snow Leopard recently, the Time Machine delayed. When I tried to select a disk, my external drive no longer appears (it says "None"). The USB and power are all plugged in.
Thanks for replying. No, it doesn't show up anywhere anymore.
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after I upgraded to snow leopard my printer does not print. I get an error message that says printer cannot be found. my printer status says my printer is idle, but is green.
You forgot to mention what printer you have, but you may need a new driver:
Printer and Scanner software available for download:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669?viewlocale=en_US -
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.
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