I upgraded my iMac to El Capitan with some patch tool and now it so slow and it cant even run safari without crash and web pages take minutes to load and every app takes minutes to load and the mouse is super sluggish and wont move and the computer cant sleep and brightness control dont work it a mess please help im stress out
Instruction to do this are in https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/revert-to-a-previous-macos-version-mh15216/mac
Instruction to do this are in https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/revert-to-a-previous-macos-version-mh15216/mac
FYI: Time Machine backups are supposed to be on a different drive than the Macintosh HD being backed up.
Suggestion #1: Hold a brief memorial service for your 2006 iMac that has valiantly survived 13-14 years of service and then buy a newer model, new, refurb, or used. These days Lion doesn't have much uses beside retro computing.
Suggestion #2: Do you still have your Snow Leopard install disk? If yes just reinstall Snow Leopard and then upgrade through the App store back to Lion. Make sure you save any files worth saving to an external drive first.
Suggestion #3: If you can't use El Capitan, don't have a way back to Lion, and still want to use the iMac then install Linux.
I don’t have time machine because the tool made me erase macintosh hd
Well then it's simple, you cannot downgrade.
I have to. This is a 2006 iMac it not meant to use el capitan, that’s why it so slow and glitchy it maxes out at lion but i use a patch tool to get to el capitan and i want go back to lion
How do I downgrade to os x lion?
