I recently upgraded my parents macbook, and they hate the new OS, so I simply want to uninstall it to the previous OS. I can't seem to find how to do this anywhere. I keep seeing things about Appcleaner, but I find it hard to believe there's not an easier way to actually uninstall something. Any help is appreciated.
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How to uninstall Mavericks?
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Appcleaner won't do it. Do you have a backup from before the upgrade to Mavericks? Restoring that would be the easiest way to revert them back to what they had.
If by chance they were using Time Machine backups then it would be a simple restart while pressing the 'Cmd + R' keys to get to the restore menu.
The first item on this menu is "restore from Time Machine backup", pick a date and time before you did the update to Mavericks and let it do its thing.
But if, you - they have not made any prior backups then it's not going to be simple...
The first item on this menu is "restore from Time Machine backup", pick a date and time before you did the update to Mavericks and let it do its thing.
But if, you - they have not made any prior backups then it's not going to be simple...
seriously...adapt. in a week, they'll be more comfortable, in 2 weeks...even better. it's not SO profoundly different as to be confusing (my mom adapted right away, and she's no computer person).
give it time.
just a thought!
give it time.
just a thought!
It's going to be a huge PITA for you to go back, IMO. You're going to have to do things like read up on how to manually backup/restore the Keychain and application preferences, otherwise all of their saved logins for websites and applications are going to be gone, along with how they had apps configured.
I understand you completely...Backup your data files as previous guy said make a usb with the previous os restart with it.Format you drive and install.
Things like AppCleaner and AppZapper are for applications. The task is far simpler than dealing with an entire OS.
Mavericks is an operating system, and you don't find uninstallers for operating systems. You re-install or install a different one.
Mavericks is an operating system, and you don't find uninstallers for operating systems. You re-install or install a different one.
Maybe it's because now it crashes or freezes? I don't know, but I noticed that since I upgraded to 10.9 on my MP, it freezes sometimes, something that didn't happen before. But other than that, I even prefer Mavericks.
And you've just given another reason for not upgrading to Mavericks. As I said elsewhere, "no real issues" means something is wrong. I'll stick to Mountain Lion until something forces me to upgrade to Mavericks or I know that the issues that I care about are taken care of.
I did just a few days ago by mistake (I goofed instead of using the Option key), and all went well, than I reinstalled Mavericks from a USB thumb drive. I have back ups on a USB drive and don't mind re-installing from scratch if I have to.
PS: I never had issues with Mavericks. I only install up to date software, unlike some others that install older software that may upset the apple cart. I also only download from safe sites. Some members have issues while many more do not and do not post here
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Many say that upgrading is just fine and others swear by doing a clean install. I have done both with no issues, but like the fact that a clean install is just CLEANER in my opinion. If you go the UpDate route you can again download the OS and burn it to a USB thumb drive for later if need be. Real easy to do using the DiskMaker program below...
Lion DiskMaker ( US Or French )
http://liondiskmaker.com/?p=288 DiskMaker X 3.0.3
Mac App Store
Download the installer file, but close out of the program when you system tries to auto run it. Launch Diskmaker X to create a USB installer.
You can still get older systems from apple.
Full installers for Leopard and Snow Leopard are still on the mac dev center as free downloads.
If you don't have access to the mac dev center, you can purchase snow leopard at
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
And you can still purchase Lion and Mountain Lion at
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
and
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
and redeem the codes in the mac app store.
Full installers for Leopard and Snow Leopard are still on the mac dev center as free downloads.
If you don't have access to the mac dev center, you can purchase snow leopard at
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
And you can still purchase Lion and Mountain Lion at
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
and
http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
and redeem the codes in the mac app store.
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Yes. You would just need to command-option-r boot to Internet recovery then use Disk Util to erase the entire disk, not just Macintosh HD. That will erase the Mavs recovery partition also and allow you to reinstall ML.
This would get you to a fresh install of nothing but ML with of course none of your data on there.