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I have just downloaded Mountain Lion. Two of my most useful programs do not work with Mountain Lion. How do I uninstall and return to Snow Leopard. (I was installing ML in hope of solving a minor problem and created a major problem.)

I posted this question. I forgot to mention that I am using an IMac (Intel), 24 inch, early 2009.

Posted on Jan 12, 2013 7:14 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2013 7:16 PM

You use your SL install disks and your pre-ML backup. There is no "uninstall only the new ML parts" path.

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Jan 12, 2013 7:49 PM in response to harleyfromcharlottesville

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3910


But at step 7 in the first section, I would do this instead:


Select Partion at the top, change layout to 1 partion, click options and make sure guid partion table is selected, name = Machintosh HD, format = Mac OS extended journaled. Then click apply. That will get rid of the recovery HD that mt lion made.


Then continue the steps.

Jan 18, 2013 12:48 AM in response to harleyfromcharlottesville

harleyfromcharlottesville wrote:


... and realized that I can use Illustrator to work with my Freehand files...although I really like Freehand.

If you need to continue to use Freehand, as well, consider installing Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels:


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Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:


http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

I have just downloaded Mountain Lion. Two of my most useful programs do not work with Mountain Lion. How do I uninstall and return to Snow Leopard. (I was installing ML in hope of solving a minor problem and created a major problem.)

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