How can I uninstall OS X Yosemite and return to OS X Mavericks?

You can check on software compatibilities here:

http://roaringapps.com/

tanvivien wrote:

Do you have any idea if Photoshop CS and Office 2010 can work with Yosemite? They are old softwares but I'm just wondering if any upgrades or plug ins can help?

Photoshop CS what? And there was no Office 2010. It went from 2008 to 2011. 2011 is fully compatible, although it helps to apply the update from within the program.

Pete

Photoshop CS only works on Snow Leopard.

Unable to find any information on Office 10.

Sorry for typo error. My Office version is 2008. Photoshop is just CS version. I've gone to the http://roaringapps.com/ website and both don't seem to be supported in Yosemite?

OK neither will work in any OS X since Snow Leopard. You can make a second partition and run Snow Leopard and those programs from there. You can do the same on an external drive or you can buy Snow Leopard Server and Parallels and run it in Virtual mode (this is the most cumbersome way). Although to be honest, you are dealing with software over a decade old and probably should start thinking about upgrading.

Cheers

Pete

You can use Libre Office software, for free, and it run virtually any kind of document, & spreadsheet. Still it does really angers me though. In 2009. I purchased the entire Open Office Suite, and it now is completely useless. The same thing also applies to Broderband Mavis Beacon Typing, which also does not work anymore.

No choice I guess 😟. I should be able to revert to Snow Leopard via my Time Machine backup as described earlier?

So, I had done a restoration from backup via Time Machine last night. However, my mac has turned extremely slow and unresponsive. Is there anything I've not done correctly? I've simply pressed Command R at restart and followed on screen instructions to restore from Time Machine. Anything else I missed?

Btw, I realised that my Office is 2011, not 2008 I mentioned yesterday and Photoshop is CS4. Office seems to be fine but Photoshop is not. The error message says there's some licensing issue. I'll have to try to reinstall from the CD again tonight. Any chance that CS4 works with Yosemite?

petermac87 wrote:

OK neither will work in any OS X since Snow Leopard.

FYI. All versions of CS from CS3 onwards and Office 2008 work on Yosemite just fine.

Are there any updates or plug-ins needed for CS4 to work? I couldn't open it after upgrading my mac to Yosemite. It says that some java plug-in is missing.

tanvivien wrote:

It says that some java plug-in is missing.

Yosemite removes Java, so you will need to re-install it. Click on the message that says the plug-in is missing and it will take you to the correct site to download the Java installer.

OK, but this has to be abnormal for a community question for a new OS X to have 35 pages & 105985 views. Though I'm a little tech savvy, not so for Mac's (new user since June 2014) or it's OS, so as much as I'd love to go back to Mavericks (though I REALLY like the Yosemite look and functions), I don't feel like going through all the trouble I've read to do it. (Do they purposely make it hard to go back?)

The Wi-Fi issues (whether tethering or on my box at home) are simply unexceptable. I actually go back to using my super slow iPad 2 (old) iOS 8, which drags, when my new MacBook Air can't connect or simple giving up. Stability, good batteryusage: that's why I came over to Apple. A friend ranted on his old Mac still holding out strong compared to my HP notebook from 2007 that moves like a snail on the Net. This latest OS X update 10.10.2. isn't cutting it.

Is anyone else feeling like their stuck between a rock in a hard place?

JEL888 wrote:

OK, but this has to be abnormal for community question for a new OS X to have 35 pages & 105985 views.

No.

Returning to Mavericks is simple, restore your backup.

JEL888 wrote:

OK, but this has to be abnormal for a community question for a new OS X to have 35 pages & 105985 views.

No, Mavericks is still bigger, so far.

Lion attracted more complaint than Mavericks and Yosemite combined, often from the same people.