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Q: Reverting to Snow Leopard from Lion - easy!

I got sick of Lion in my MacBook Pro and went back to good old Snow Leopard.

 

It was SO easy!

 

I made a Carbon Copy Clone of my hard drive - Time Machine is no use for downgrading - and stuffed in my Snow Leopard disk.

 

I then followed Kappy's advice here - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3352492

 

Snow Leopard instal then automatically replaced all my info from the clone disk, it was so simple.

 

I can now use my Photoshop CS and Final Cut Studio again, which wouldn't work/instal with Lion.

 

I can "Save As" again - oh joy!

 

I no longer have yesterday's apps, docs and Safari tabs opening automatically every morning: that in itself will give me more productive hours every year.

 

No more searching between multiple desktops for my apps.

 

And the task bar pops up first time, every time - no more double-double tapping my mouse.

 

I am happy once again, my life is rich and fulfilled.

 

I LOVE SNOW LEOPARD!

 

 

 

(Lion fanboys - don't even bother, the world is big enough for ALL of us)

Apple user since 1982

Posted on Sep 29, 2011 7:29 AM

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  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Sep 29, 2011 9:13 AM in response to ian-apple
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    Sep 29, 2011 9:13 AM in response to ian-apple

    A wise, wise, move.

     

    If you want the best of both worlds, install that buggy Lion on an external disk and boot into it from time to time to do the s/w updates. Eventually, it will become usable, and it'll be easier (and more fun) to track its developments as it goes along rather than risk another blind upgrade in the future.

     

    Enjoy being back in SL, great 'innit?

  • by cricketernot,

    cricketernot cricketernot Sep 29, 2011 12:49 PM in response to softwater
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    Sep 29, 2011 12:49 PM in response to softwater

    I just got my fourth external FireWire drive to play around with. Perhaps to mess around with Lion without being committed (I'm on SL 10.6.8 and very good it is too). Being committed to anything, yes anything, makes me very nervous. Don't think this Lion has to be tackled immediately but at some point yes because that's the way things are going. Windows too. I see from this forum so many are just crashing into Lion without having their exit strategy organised in ADVANCE.