Is there an easy way for a novice to remove 10.6.8 and get back 10.6.7?
It's just making the fans work over time now, and it was pretty silent with 10.6.7. It's getting on my nerves.
Be very grateful for a quick fix if you can help
Thanks
MacBook Pro
Erase the drive or partition and reinstall 10.6.7, either from a bootable backup or from the Mac OS X 10.6 install disk followed by running the Mac OS X 10.6.7 combo updater.
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the tall wrote:
Is there an easy way for a novice to remove 10.6.8 and get back 10.6.7?
It's just making the fans work over time now, and it was pretty silent with 10.6.7. It's getting on my nerves.
Be very grateful for a quick fix if you can help
Thanks
Simply return to you Time Machine Backup just before you updated to 10.6.8
Good Luck
Pete
Thank you for your answers, I installed several updates and don't know what is making the problem. SMC updates, Thunderbolt or the 10.6.8?
Will Time Machine remove all those updates? How would that work, I thought it just did files, not the system's updates?
What is a combo updater?
It may not be 10.6.8, it may be one of the other updates, but I don't know which one.
What do you suggest? How does TM take it back to my last saved TM and remove the updates?
Updates that contain SMC or firmware in their name write new instructions to one of the computer's components instead of the hard or flash disk and can't be uninstalled unless otherwise noted. Updates written to the hard disk are simply files in special locations. The combo updater updates Mac OS X directly to a specific version without needing any intermediate updates, not including paid upgrades.
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Sorry Niel, I don't understand, what can I do? It was fine before yesterday and now.... I want to put it back to how it was?
The SMC update can't be uninstalled unless Apple says otherwise. If the Thunderbolt update was labeled as a firmware update, that also applies to it.
The spinning fans are probably due to the SMC update.
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If I re install from when new and wipe the whole MBP will they still be on there?
Yes. As stated above, firmware updates aren't stored on the hard or flash drive after installation.
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Is there an easy way to do this to save what's on the machine or do I need to go over everything?
If you have a Time Machine backup or bootable clone made before you ran the Mac OS X 10.6.8 updater, restore from it. Otherwise, back up the drive, erase it, and restore your files from the backup; if you make a Time Machine backup, you can migrate from it without reinstalling the Mac OS X 10.6.8 updater.
The timing of the backup in relation to the other updates doesn't matter as they aren't part of the backup and can't be removed by restoring from it.
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Have never restored from TM, so if I connect it and use one from my last back up which was last week, it will revert the whole system? What do I do when it's plugged in to restore
Restart from the computer's original disk, use the Disk Utility to erase the internal drive, and then restore the system from the Time Machine backup; both options are in the Utilities menu.
This will restore the drive to the state it was in when you made the backup, which includes uninstalling the Mac OS X 10.6.8 update. It won't uninstall the SMC update as that isn't written to the drive.
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Have you tried an SMC reset?
Hi John, yes I have, So if it's the SMC update, I'm stuffed even if I restore from a back up. So there's nothing I can do to get rid of it?
As far as I know there is no way to undo a firmware update.
removing 10.6.8?
