Then I don't know of any other way then what I and DayOfChaos have described and you linked to (post #10).
Maybe contact DayOfChaos via PM.
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Downgrading From Lion?
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Then I don't know of any other way then what I and DayOfChaos have described and you linked to (post #10).
Maybe contact DayOfChaos via PM.
Downgrading Issues
I recently upgraded my system, and although I had been putting off upgrading to Lion for quite some time now, I decided with this new semester I could really benefit from what iCloud and some more of Lion's features had to offer, so I finally went ahead and did it. After about two weeks of my programs slowing down (everything from games to the Adobe CS5 suite I use for a lot of my planning classes) and numerous headaches with iTunes match (a brilliant idea, but half baked implementation in my opinion), iCloud (not nearly as intuitive as I expected from Apple given its recent history of outstanding product launches), and just a general frustration with my normally lightning fast system since upgrading, I time machine re-booted my last back-up prior to the upgrade and went back to Snow Leopard.
Besides losing some of the files I had picked up during this time (mainly syllabi, music, and a game), everything has worked fairly well, and the files are all easily downloadable from either their original sources of my time machine back-ups. One small problem...
My time machine back-ups prior to today are gone.
I came back to my machine about 30 minutes ago to find it telling me that there was no longer sufficient space on my external drive to back up to, which was weird to me given that it's a 1TB drive (with the dedicated time machine partition committed to approximately 4/5ths of that). It turns out that my machine is acknowledging my current reboot of SL as an entirely new computer, even though my old backups seem to still be on the external, due tot he fact that iStat is still showing my back-up partition as about halfway full (approximately how much my previous backups were taking up prior to the reboot). Finder and Time Machine both don't acknowledge my old backups, and time machine is trying to back up my entire system now as compared to the minor changes like normal. Needless to say, I am pretty severely displeased with my whole Lion experience, and now that I've gone back to my favorite operating system in my 10 years of using Mac OS and OSX, it's giving me ****.
Any advice? My system is a Late 08 2.8 iMac with 6GB of RAM, and has given me no other problems in the close to 4 years I've had it.
I recently upgraded my system, and although I had been putting off upgrading to Lion for quite some time now, I decided with this new semester I could really benefit from what iCloud and some more of Lion's features had to offer, so I finally went ahead and did it. After about two weeks of my programs slowing down (everything from games to the Adobe CS5 suite I use for a lot of my planning classes) and numerous headaches with iTunes match (a brilliant idea, but half baked implementation in my opinion), iCloud (not nearly as intuitive as I expected from Apple given its recent history of outstanding product launches), and just a general frustration with my normally lightning fast system since upgrading, I time machine re-booted my last back-up prior to the upgrade and went back to Snow Leopard.
Besides losing some of the files I had picked up during this time (mainly syllabi, music, and a game), everything has worked fairly well, and the files are all easily downloadable from either their original sources of my time machine back-ups. One small problem...
My time machine back-ups prior to today are gone.
I came back to my machine about 30 minutes ago to find it telling me that there was no longer sufficient space on my external drive to back up to, which was weird to me given that it's a 1TB drive (with the dedicated time machine partition committed to approximately 4/5ths of that). It turns out that my machine is acknowledging my current reboot of SL as an entirely new computer, even though my old backups seem to still be on the external, due tot he fact that iStat is still showing my back-up partition as about halfway full (approximately how much my previous backups were taking up prior to the reboot). Finder and Time Machine both don't acknowledge my old backups, and time machine is trying to back up my entire system now as compared to the minor changes like normal. Needless to say, I am pretty severely displeased with my whole Lion experience, and now that I've gone back to my favorite operating system in my 10 years of using Mac OS and OSX, it's giving me ****.
Any advice? My system is a Late 08 2.8 iMac with 6GB of RAM, and has given me no other problems in the close to 4 years I've had it.
simsaladimbamba.. i have an imac with 10.6.8. want to buy an i7 macbook pro. if i get a 6-9 pin firewire cable and do what you said at the start of this thread i will have success? is there going to be any glitches?
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It will only work if you buy a 2011 MacBook Pro, the method described in this thread will not work with 2012 Macs, as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard lacks drivers for those.
And yes, if you have the appropriate Mac, a Firewire cable in any form will work.