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Ive recently sent my Mac book pro of for repair and it has came back with a later version of os on it i want snow leopard back and i cant find my discs what can be done?

Hello ive recently sent of my mac book pro for repair and it has come back with Lion on it i know its an upgrade but none of my games will run on lion so the upgrade was unwanted what can be done because i want snow leopard back. Sods law i have lost my os disc someone in my house has moved them and i cant find them. any help will be very greatful
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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 2:55 AM

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BGreg

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Posted on Feb 21, 2013 6:28 AM

If whoever did the repair can't reinstall OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and you don't have a backup, you can buy a new DVD of Snow Leopard from the Apple online store. Either call them (in the US it's 800-MY-APPLE) or you can order online too. That doesn't come with the iLife applications, however.

I have a dual boot system with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on one partition and OS X 10.7 Lion on the other. That allows me to still use some PowerPC-based programs that will not run under Lion.

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seventy one

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Feb 23, 2013 2:44 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

Thank you Michael, I'll look it up. I run Snow Leopard without any of the virtual 'benefits'. Wouldn't swap it for the world.

ds store

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Feb 23, 2013 5:26 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

MlchaelLAX wrote:

Surely you noticed Scrabble running on my Lion MacBook Pro: 😕 ? So, I am confused by your post...

Yea, nice try. 😝

PS: I downloaded CS2 for free, before the new and confusing notice was attached to that page.

It just says "should not" not "no you can't" and it's just a legal cover their arse move because it doesn't get updates.

(Windows version users do need to remove something fishy in Adobe Bridge; ClamWin shows)

PPS: Do you have the non-specific, retail 10.6.8 Install DVD that seems to be available? I have not tried it yet...

Only 10.6.3 retail and a 10.6.7 machine specific.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120123175902871

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3264421?start=0&tstart=0

MlchaelLAX

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Feb 23, 2013 10:34 PM in response to ds store

Yes, I have seen the first link to 10.6.7 creation; I have not tried it yet. I decided to take the lazy way out try the internet-available 10.6.8 Installer DVD, but just have not had the time to try it out yet.

I am still confused by your references to Scrabble and "nice try"; what am I missing here?

ds store

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Feb 23, 2013 10:43 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

MlchaelLAX wrote:

I decided to take the lazy way out try the internet-available 10.6.8 Installer DVD

Sorry, we are not allowed to discuss such sources of software here.

We have to refrain from that sort of MacRumors type level conversations here.

Scrabble is running in Snow Leopard, which is running in a VM in Lion, it's not running in Lion directly.

Later. 🙂

MlchaelLAX

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Feb 23, 2013 10:50 PM in response to ds store

Since I still do not understand your original comment about Scrabble, I think I will leave this horse beaten to death, alone!

As to your other comments: yeah, nice try. 😝

Ive recently sent my Mac book pro of for repair and it has came back with a later version of os on it i want snow leopard back and i cant find my discs what can be done?