Can I get Snow's Spaces back? Among others...

I completely agree with everything you said and I feel EXACTLY the same way. Well put.

I don't mind the way the Spaces have been incorporated in Lion. However, ctl-n for me only works thru ctl-4. That is, if I'm in Space 1 and want to go to Space 5, ctl-5 rings a bell and doesn't move me to Space 5. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks.

That you can set in keyboard settings. I use command # to switch between spaces.

if you hit option and tab you can set up different desktops inside of mission control

You can add or remove desktops that way, but I still see no way fo moving apps from one space to another as you could do in spaces. You can only move an app from the main window to another space.

Back to Snow Leopard from Lion install method

Read and print out these instructions, your computer is going to be offline and you wil be cutoff from help until your machine is restored.

Clear the Desktop, Downloads and Trash of anything you wish to keep by placing their files in the respective Documents, Music, Pictures, Movie folders.

If you have a TimeMachine drive, update it and disconnect for the duration of this restore time. It will be your second backup system and will have to be wiped and setup again after successfully going back to Snow Leopard if it was connected to the OS X 10.7 boot drive. If it wasn't, then leave it disconnected without updating to Lion. (note: I'm not a TimeMachine user, so I don't know how to restore 10.6 from this medium)

Backup ALL your Users folders (Documents, Pictures, Movies, Music etc) manually (drag and drop methods) to a (not TimeMachine) external powered drive (HFS+ journaled formatted in Disk Utility) and disconnect, your going to be wiping the entire disk of ALL DATA. (warning, everything will be gone and not recovered, OS, programs, files, Windows etc all gone.)

Here we go!

Hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk that comes with your computer and second screen in just STOP.

Look at the Utilities Menu for Disk Utility.

On the left is the name of your hard drive maker, click it and Erase (format HFS+ Journaled), give it the same name as before, and click Erase...

This should wipe the drive of ALL partitions (GUID, OS X and 10.7 Recovery, Windows if present)

When it's done, quit and install OS X 10.6. Then install all your programs from fresh sources and validate/update.

When you setup a first account, use the same user name as before, this way you can simply drag and drop the content of your previous Users folders from the external drive right back into the new Users folders and everything should work peachy. Links in iTunes to music, playlists and iPhoto links especially.

Update OS X to 10.6.8 using the Combo Update for best results.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

(Note: If your original machine had 10.5 and you want the free iLife that comes with the disks with the computer, then you'll have to install 10.5 first using the same c boot/erase/format methods as above, then update to 10.6 via the disk, then Combo Update 10.6.8)

Final step optional but highly receommended.

A lot of people use a Carbon Copy Clone of their boot drive to a HFS+Journaled external drive as a "hold the option key" bootable backup in case something goes wrong with their boot drive or need to restore to a previous OS X version.. (in addition to TimeMachine drive for more immediate backups.)

It's not advised to have a Bootable Clone and a TimeMachine partition on the same external drive, as two drives gives hardware protection in case one fails.

I really, really cannot get used to Mission Control. It totally lacks any overview and navigation ease.

Mission Control was designed to integrate the dashboard, full screen apps, Exposé and Spaces. Well, the dashboard is useless and full screen apps as well. I do not see any reason why the spaces grid cannot be re-implemented in Lion. I hope Apple comes to the conclusion that they've made a mistake; otherwise 3rd parties probably will come up with a solution.

In the meantime, please join this Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dear-Mr-Jobs-Could-I-please-have-the-Snow-Leopard- Spaces-back-in-Lion/167233123348526?sk=photos

Totally agree Bamw504. Bring back the SL Spaces!

pmhask wrote:

I don't mind the way the Spaces have been incorporated in Lion. However, ctl-n for me only works thru ctl-4. That is, if I'm in Space 1 and want to go to Space 5, ctl-5 rings a bell and doesn't move me to Space 5. Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks.

Do you actually have a Desktop named Desktop 5? Full Screen Apps are not actually desktops, but they do take up a space.

Also, when I ctrl+# that is out of range, I don't get a warning sound. So perhaps there is something interfering with the Ctrl-# function for 5 on your system. I.e. Ctrl-5 on your system is set to do something else, that is failing.

RobBT wrote:

There are more discussions going on about Mission Control. Striking is that people positive about MC hardly know of how Spaces was used in Snow Leopard.

I used spaces before. I like MC better. Try it for a while. Get used to it. Learn how it works. Right now, its just different for you.

I had different apps set for different spaces. Grouped like functions into one (e.g. iCal and Mail). Dragged and dropped between spaces. I used the arrow keys and ctrl-# to move arround. Had to invoke Exposé + spaces to see what was going on all over. It was clunky.

With MC, I just swipe. It's there. Way simpler and more intuitive.

Thanks to someone else's tip, I checked the Keyboard Shortcuts under Keyboard Preferences. Once you have created a new Desktop, it becomes available in Keyboard Shortcuts for assignment (i.e. ^5 for Desktop 5). I don't know what it would do if you went beyond Desktop 9.