Is it possible to downgrade?

Yes, there are plenty of posts in here about it so the Search box up there is your best friend.

Regards,

Colin R.

Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard

1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.

3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.

4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.

This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard. I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1.

You might prefer installing Lion on another hard drive or on another partition of your existing hard drive. In that way you need not worry about downgrading or reinstalling Snow Leopard.

If I might make a suggestion...

Wait until the first update and then get Lion. It shouldn't be a very long wait and it will fix a great deal of the issues that you have seen in the threads.

That way there is a much smaller chance that you will want to drop back to SL after upgrading to Lion.

Thanks for posting that Kappy, I didn't want to cut and paste from your earlier one 😉

Regards,

Colin R.

Feel free to do so any time. 🙂

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