i need to download 10.7.0 (10.7.2 max), where does Apple keep earlier versions of OS?

@petermac87

oh dear, i was afriad that it wold now be 10.7.3

Apple really do seem to be keen to make sure we cannot sort out any problems of our own making don't they?

someone mentioned in a Mac User Group that it might be possible to get a USB stick with 10.7.0 from an Apple Store, has anyone else heard that this is possible (i am in the UK, London to be exact)

@Carlo TD

i actually started all thi by restarting with Alt held down and then later w Cmd + R

but it reinstalled 10.7.3 rather than offer to instal the 10.7.0 version, so i moved on to the more brutal approach (which i now totally regret) of formatting, and installing the MacPro OS disc for 10.6.4 and updating to 10.6.8 which is where i am at now

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@bobwild

i later discovered that 10.7.3 worked with 2.3.0 on another mac, but by then i had gone awol and trashed everything on my main HD

now i am wondering which direction i should go from here.........

do i stick to 10.6 and hope that when i use Migration Assistant from my backup (which has 10.7.3 on it) that there will not be a load of conflicts

or do i restore my main HD from the SuperDuper backup and try and sort out the conflist with Capture NX2?

have to say i am thinking a 10.7.3 restore seems the better answer

and i should add here that was was happening was that Nikon Capture NX2 was firstly refusing to open a NEF RAW file, the it started to not see thumbnails for any file in any folder (it would only see the icon of the file, not the mini image itself, then when i deleted the cache file it would not even see the icons ......... so i had a Pro image app that would not see images of any sort!!!!)

(it should be noted here that all my other Nikon apps worked perfectly fine - Camera Capture Pro, Nikon Transfer, Nikon View and Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw also saw all the images - it was JUST Capture NX2 which i use to work on the images in my first stage of workflow that was not doing anything)

here is my update to this -

there is NO way to go backwards in an OS easily

i have had to buy the OSX 10.7 USB stick which cost me just under £60 (w courier charges) and is a mosrt basic slice of plastic that does not look like it was made to last and does not even come with it's owmn container

since the problem which required me to revert back to 10.7.2 (Nikon Capture NX2 instal that stopped working) i discovered that the rememdy was to Get Info on the app and check the box "Open in 32-bit" - it now works fine (so let that be a lesson!!!!!)

i have been advised that if i still needed to go back to 10.7.2 from 10.7.3 it was seriously not adviosable to put the 10.7.0 USB stick in a try to revert that way

i had stopped using TimeMachine due to 3 failures to successfully update, which made me feel it was unsafe to rely on it (tho i have been since TOLD by an Apple genius that there is absolutely no problem with TM and that if there was we would have all heard about it by now!! - not sure about that, and i also got into a bit of an argument about the same thing on a MUG discussion too - so i do not know if TM is now more stable or whether it was all due to the disc i was using ............ but Apple obviously relies on us users using TM and if there is a problem like i have had then to use it as the best way to go back in time and OS

BEWARE THERE IS A SERIOUS RUMOUR THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY USB STICKS FOR 10.8

so, the only choiuce left was to do what iu had started to do, and to erase and format the disc afer backing up what i had, and to use the original OS that came with the machine (in my case that was 10.6.4) and update to 10.6.8, then to use the USB stick to update to 10.7.0 and then use the combo update which is still available to 10.7.2 - and then use Migration Assistant to get all the apps from my backup - which ineveitably can cause breakages and wouold require attention to rememdy them for the next week or so

so, i guess the advice her is first do no update until you KNOW all your apps are going to work, and secondly do use TimeMachine, evn if you do not totally trust it since it might be the best way to go back in time, and thirdly have another backup strategy like SuperDuper which perfectly restored my main HD in 3 hours

a very wasteful exercise all in all, but one which had left a few "MUST DO'S" ......

@bobwild

re Nikon Capture working on some machines and not others ........

seems it is dependant on the CPUs of the machine concerned, or so said Nikon

so it worked fine on my MacBookPro with i7 cores, but not on my MacPro w 2 6-core Xeons

the latter needed the app to be changed to "Open in 32-bit" the laptop did not

i have not heard of this before, but both machines were similarly up to date in all apps and the only obvious difference between them are the processors ........... so .........