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Apple LION is a disaster! How do I reinstall Snow Leopard?

This is ridiculous. Now with the last update, our system is slower than ever, takes forever to boot up, get the spinning beach ball constantly, my wife is nagging, omg get me away from this.... must be a Microsoft product!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 16, 2011 8:09 PM

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Aug 16, 2011 8:17 PM in response to PeterZ1959

What you mean to say (I believe) is that this OS does not work well on YOUR computer. It certainly works well on mine. I would suggest a system check using any number of available utilities (I prefer DiskWarrior), including using the Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. You might also try reinstalling the OS over itself and see if that helps (backup important stuff first). What you describe sounds like something is unhappy within your system. Do you have plenty of HD space? Have you tried running DU? What other diagnostics have you tried, if any? Have you installed lots of fonts lately, or changed the name of your Home folder, moved things around from where they originally were, or in some other way altered the setup on your system?

Sep 5, 2011 7:59 PM in response to The Dude Abides

Hi - I've been having these same problems with Lion occuring with an unrecognized HD failure. I did all of the things you suggest (thank you!) - And when I fired up my new HD for the first time, I did change the name of my Home Folder (long story - was my wife's name, always annoyed me, didn't realize it would have ramifications...) Could part - or all - of my headaches be related to changing the name of my Home folder?

Sep 6, 2011 8:07 AM in response to capaho

I agree that the Lion works well and that is an assumption I have made based on what I have read. All I can do is evaluate the information made available and make an assumption. However I do not agree that you can follow that and say it is always the user's fault. There are way too many variables involved to blame everything on the user or Lion.

Sep 6, 2011 8:18 AM in response to bobwild

Agreed. The thousands of complaints about unpredictable, irregular, unexpected problems with the operating system cannot be due entirely to all the individual users out there. The system --at least as I understand the purpose of a system-- does not run correctly and should never have been released with so many uncorrected problems. Basic, simple things like how folders open (list view, icon view, etc.) and system preferences (e.g., hot corner for screen saver, etc.) do not work in a predictible, reliable manner. THAT is not user error, that is a poorly tested, badly conceived system. I am seriously disappointed with Apple for their unleashing this thing on us without having made sure it works correctly.

Apple LION is a disaster! How do I reinstall Snow Leopard?

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