TigerTom72

Q: Yosemite has become a nightmare

I've been running Yosemite since it was released on my early-2009 iMac. It was running slower, but I put up with that.

 

Last week it shut completely down while I was away. I was unable to restart it. I took it to a Mac repair shop where I learned that Yosemite was not designed to run on my machine, although Apple says it can. We finally got it to boot up and I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB.

 

Since then, it has shut down repeatedly. As I write this, I haven't been able to boot it this entire day.

 

I'm ready to revert to Mavericks. I have Time Machine backups, but only back to about the beginning of this year. Am I to assume I'll lose everything if I erase the disk and reload Mavericks?

 

What would you do? How?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 5:01 PM

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