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Uninstalling Snow Leopard

Problemes with SL...

I bought SL for 5 Macs we have. I installed it on 1 (My iMac). Yes there are problems... There are softwares that DONT run on SL...like Artisteer (which we use often)...now I have a pc configured beside my mac to run Artisteer. We also print with a commercial printer Bizhub C351 and NOW I can't print anymore...contacted the printer compagnie and was told that they are upgrading there driver software to run on SL but will take a while (4 to 6 weeks). So I have a useless iMac unless I can downgrade. I can't beleive that Apple, who is usually one step ahead of Windows, is now one step behind. Windows does have an unistall of upgrades...where is it in Mac.

Richy
 
Windows can uninstall service packs, but that's a bit different.

For OS X, your only choice is to make a backup of your important files, reformat and reinstall the older version, run Software Update a few times, and copy your files back on.
 
Down grade for cutePDF?

Rodney Nagel said:
I develop Java applications using NetBeans.
I have just installed Snow Leopard and experience the following problems to date:
- CuteFP Pro for Mac will not start...


Really?!the print window on a Mac has the option to save to PDF anyway? Why do you need cute PDF? I have this on an XP machine but its inferior to the built in one on the Mac.
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Snow Leapord -- Misfiring within its Amygdala & Orbital Frontal Cortex

As most of you most like know within the human brain are two areas (among several) one the Amygdala, which manages priorities, and the other the Orbital Frontal Cortex which manages the concept of right and wrong, concept of socialization and concept of judgment.

Now MAC's do not have the same set up as we do -- they have some very black and white and sometimes gray data to manage. -- all that being said I can not for the life of me understand why -- after Snow Leopard was installed on my intel Mac Pro that most of the "apple" programs as well as MS Office but mostly seems to crash with iTunes, iWork, Safari etc,. Recently with iPhoto when dragging photo's to Key Note or trying to export a photo.
Which has taken me to the human brain analogy -- Snow Leopard is having some serious challenges with priorities of applications as well as the concept of "socialization" between applications. I have repaired disk permissions, rest the PRAM, deleted all unnecessary applications, shut down all other running applications and still have the same problem.
That being said are others having a similar problem with Snow Leopard? Is there a way to safely remove it from the system without having to do a clean install?

I have attached the crash log -- any help is appreciated!.
 

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Sadly I will need to uninstall Snow Leopard as well... My statistical software does not open and from the reading I've done this is a common problem... There is a patch but it wont work for my version... :(
I was wondering if the smarter route would be to take it to an Apple Store to have them do it so I don't mess up my MacBook in the process??
 
Snow Leopard--Don't Upgrade!!!

I would not recommend anyone download the new OS on their computers. Every since our office "upgraded" to Snow Leopard, nothing works right anymore. I can't watch videos of my kids football games that were downloaded previously and I can't watch new ones that come in. Every time I try to download new pictures, the system locks up on me. For a system that is supposed to make everything run faster, it only seems to make things worse.

The driver's for our network printer were removed, printing has been a problem, etc. The difference between 32 bit and 64 bit has made my life at work a bigger mess, not a help.

Any suggestions, I would love to hear them!

Kim
 
I can't watch videos of my kids football games that were downloaded previously and I can't watch new ones that come in
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If they are QuickTime videos, you might have to install QuickTime 7 from the SL installation DVD if you haven't already.

Upgrading is iffy, it's likely that you will have some form of problem, I'd say there are plenty of users that upgraded and are going just fine, that's just a guess so it could be wrong, I guess Apple would know the answer more than anyone else.
Don't upgrade if you don't have the time or don't intend to do a entire clean install, that means - not installing from Time Machine, not upgrading from Leopard, not migrating from an existing HD. That way you have a brand new "nothing on it" OS, that should not malfunction in the slightest.

You will have to manually transfer the files you want back over.
This would be quite difficult in a work situation with large amounts of computers, so it would not be a good idea to upgrade an office imo, unless you've got a lot of time to do clean installs.

I can't assure you that everything will go well, even doing a clean install, but I can tell you it was a breeze for me, I love SL.
I upgraded a 6 month old Mac Pro with no issues like these, my worst issue was at some point it started taking to long on the blue screen when you are shutting down 20-30 seconds sometimes - particularly if programs were open when it was being shut down, I don't really notice it now, it does it on and off (I think).

I did a clean install on a SSD and had no issues except for not being able to eject the DVD tray, it was fixed by restarting and installing 10.6.1, I'm not sure which solved the issue but one of them did.
Generally shut down takes about 3 seconds even with applications open, or even less with them closed, I still occasionally spend 10-15 seconds at the blue screen, it's pretty rare I think though :p

The only thing I can tell you to do, is do a clean install and do it properly - for the majority of people it should resolve everything.
For those that still have issues with the OS, you must realize that you are the minority, and that bad things happen to you. (just a joke)
(Note, if you have hardware problems it could appear to be the OS, but may be in fact bad hardware)

Kind Regards
 
ss957916 said:
I have an intel mac. SL was awful. I went back.
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I think that is your loss. I upgraded and since the Canon people finally got the drivers done for SL everything is working 100% now. I love SL. I would not go back and I think you did not give SL a chance and you may have given up too easily.

Try doing a clean install, it could help you. SL has a lot to offer.
Just my 2 bits. :)
 
Loss?

"I think you did not give SL a chance and you may have given up too easily."
Well, I guess my latest conversation with a high up Apple tech would not apply to you. We both agreed the best thing to do, at this point in Snow Leopard's alpha state, is to go back to Leopard. There are two distinct camps here, yours with no problems and mine (and the rest of the forum members experiencing problems). I have been an early adopter of Apple computers and software since its beginning and this one is the worst experience ever. Even Adobe has written an apology (sort of) in its forums for the trouble we are having with Photoshop and SN. So for the record, Apple and the rest of us in this camp are going back to Leopard until the snow clears.
 
may have to uninstall too

I installed SL on a relatively new Intel iMac today. I installed following the procedure recommended by Apple (upgrade rather than clean install). The install seemed to go fine. Afterward, I ran Software Update and repaired file permissions. Safari is much faster than before, but the overall system is noticeably slower, including startups. Firefox works, but crashes 100% of the time if I click its Help menu. Windows Live Sync does not work at all, and this is going to be a deal breaker for my work computer (MacBook Pro). I still have more testing to do on the iMac but am leaning toward returning to Leopard for the speed. After this experience, I have no plans to try SL on my MacBook Pro.
 
I installed following the procedure recommended by Apple (upgrade rather than clean install)
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Unfortunately I think most people that do an upgrade have issues of some kind, I highly recommend a clean install (you will have to manually add your files back after (they should all be backed up prior)).
I did an upgrade and it was great, and the same with my clean install on my SSD.
 
I am new to Mac. I installed SL and now I receive pop ups stating that my version of Safari is not compatible with SL. Also that MobileMe has an invalid name or password. Is there an easy fix or did I do something wrong during the installation?
 
MythicFrost said:
Unfortunately I think most people that do an upgrade have issues of some kind, I highly recommend a clean install (you will have to manually add your files back after (they should all be backed up prior)).
I did an upgrade and it was great, and the same with my clean install on my SSD.
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I have backed up my hard drive using Time Machine. If I do a clean install I understand I have to basically reformat my HD and then add all my files back (applications, documents etc). Can I do that from Time Machine? Do I add back the HD/Library folder as well or is it just the files like Apps and Documents that I use for my everyday work?
 
Restoring from a Time Machine backup is an option but its not a clean install.
When you do a clean install, you will be left with nothing on your OS but what is installed from OSX.

Any files you want will have to be backed up otherwise they won't exist anymore.
You will also need to re-install your applications from their disks, for example I re-installed CS4.

If you want to keep a file you need to have it backed up. You can use Time Machine and I highly recommend backing up your Applications folder and whatever other files you want to keep to an external drive as well.
(I like to have two or more backups, IE Time Machine backup + Application folder and important files on an external drive, just in case one fails)
 
MythicFrost said:
Restoring from a Time Machine backup is an option but its not a clean install.
When you do a clean install, you will be left with nothing on your OS but what is installed from OSX.

Any files you want will have to be backed up otherwise they won't exist anymore.
You will also need to re-install your applications from their disks, for example I re-installed CS4.

If you want to keep a file you need to have it backed up. You can use Time Machine and I highly recommend backing up your Applications folder and whatever other files you want to keep to an external drive as well.
(I like to have two or more backups, IE Time Machine backup + Application folder and important files on an external drive, just in case one fails)
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Thanks for the valuable advice. I'll do an extra (manual) backup of my Apps and Docs folder!
 
Problems with SL

I just installed snow leopard on my late 2007 intel macbook with a 2.2 processor and 2 gig of memory. My macbook is now slower and movies will now not play when I double click on them in iphoto.

Anybody have this issue? Can I use my old OS cds to revert back to my old OS instead of SL?
 
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