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

I need help! The fonts are so small and pale I can't see to use the tool bar (Safari). Any way to increase the size? or make BOLD?

Instead of hyjack this thread, you really should start your own thread for your problem so that it gets the consideration it deserves.

HI - I to would like to get back to Maverics for the short time till Apple gets things staightened out. I have a mid 2010 17" MBP. I have heard that older than 2011 Macs cannot do the Command R recovery without the backup operating system disk. Am I alright to do this with TM even though I'm an older Mac.

I am stuck in FireVault as well - 28% complete for 3 days. Thanks so much for the help.

Hey Allan, I just did the Yosemite update yesterday and already have problems with email. (Accounts have disappeared and inbox only contains the new mail for my iCloud account). Dreading what other problems may arise after looking at the community page. Any ideas on the email fix? Oh, and by the way my iPad does show all my email accounts and all my new mail in the inbox. Good thing i have more than one way to access my email!

" Will increasing my Ram, make my iMac work properly again, or will it only help a little. Currently I have two 1 GB RAM installed. Also how long will it work? "
In short, no. I have 12GB of RAM and 10.10 would suck almost ever bit of ram out of this..
Constant rebooting, restarting programs, changing system settings. Nothing helped.

I downgraded last night back to 10.9.5, my 2011 Mac is running great again.

Ruby_Roxx wrote:

Seriously Apple you need to sort out your software issues, it seems that you have gone backwards instead of forwards recently when launching new products. It is impossible to work like this and considering the rates you charge for your products I expect better as a loyal customer. Are you offering a solution for these problems? Are you going to fix these software issues any time soon?

You seem to be under the impression that you are addressing Apple directly here. Let me assure you, that everybody currently participating here is a user just like you. Although it's certainly possible that somebody from Apple is reading any of this, most employees are far to busy working on known issues to have the time right now. If, after you have given your system 24 hours to re-build all necessary databases, you are still having issues and feel the need to communicate such things to Apple you need to give them Feedback or get yourself a free Developer Account and use Bug Reporter.

Sorry to have abandoned you, but I had a minor medical emergency to deal with and am still running way behind.

Not sure why the recovery got hung up. Certainly USB 2.0 is going to be much slower than what you will get with almost any other option these days, but it still should have eventually finished.

Unfortunately, my expertise is mostly in the Malware area, which is what brought me here in the first place. Although I've done a couple of OS X restorations myself, I'm sure there are others more qualified than I who can help.

This discussion has gotten way too big and much of what you had to say has become lost in the noise. Perhaps it's time to start your own discussion, describing your current problem which will draw more people who are better than I at getting answers for you. Just make sure you give them a complete rundown of what you have done so far and details of the problem.

Hey Thanks for getting back to me- i ended up stopping the process and trying three more times each with the same result - a stuck start up screen after supposedky the information had transferred. on the fourth time i decided to instead of Restoring, Reinstalling the OS. this process was successful and actually after i restarted the machine i found all my files from the date I had originally tried to Restore from there and available. i checked the dates and they indeed stopped around the first week of September. i did a search for the folder JavaW and nothing came up I did an Adware Medic and things seemed fine.

I did an Etrecheck - here is my computer now 0- if you have the time could tell if it looks ok?

sorry to hear about your emergency hopefully everything is ok and thanks for the help

EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)

Report generated October 23, 2014 at 3:45:08 AM EDT

Hardware Information: ℹ️

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) (Verified)

iMac - model: iMac13,2

1 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

8 GB RAM Upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 0/DIMM1

empty empty empty empty

BANK 1/DIMM1

empty empty empty empty

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX - VRAM: 1024 MB

iMac 2560 x 1440

System Software: ℹ️

OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:49:53

Disk Information: ℹ️

APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0 disk0 : (1 TB)

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (788.75 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

USB Information: ℹ️

Western Digital My Book 1140 3 TB

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

My Book (disk1s2) /Volumes/My Book : 3 TB (30.42 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Configuration files: ℹ️

/etc/hosts - Count: 20

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

/Library/StartupItems/ArcanaStartupSound/Resources

[not loaded] arcana.PRAM (6.1) Support

/Users/[redacted]/Library/Services/ToastIt.service/Contents/MacOS

[not loaded] com.roxio.TDIXController (2.0) Support

Startup Items: ℹ️

ArcanaStartupSound: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ArcanaStartupSound

Startup items are obsolete and will not work in future versions of OS X

Launch Agents: ℹ️

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[running] com.epson.ecrp.launcher.plist Support

[running] com.epson.Epson_Low_Ink_Reminder.launcher.plist Support

[loaded] com.epson.esua.launcher.plist Support

[running] com.epson.eventmanager.agent.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.charlessoft.pacifist.helper.plist Support

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support

[loaded] com.rogueamoeba.instanton-agent.plist Support

[running] com.syniumsoftware.CleanAppDaemon.plist Support

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support

[not loaded] info.lokiware.attachmenttamer.cleanup.plist Support

[invalid?] info.lokiware.attachmenttamer.setupagent.plist Support

[loaded] ltcm.plist Support

User Login Items: ℹ️

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

Flip4Mac WMV Plugin: Version: 3.2.0.16 - SDK 10.8 Support

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.189 - SDK 10.6 Support

Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.1 - SDK 10.6 Support

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30317.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 71 Check version

User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 Support

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

YouTube5

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

CleanApp Logging Service Support

Flash Player Support

Flip4Mac WMV Support

Growl Support

Java Support

Perian Support

Time Machine: ℹ️

Auto backup: YES

Destinations:

My Book [Local]

Total size: 3 TB

Total number of backups: 93

Oldest backup: 2013-08-10 04:35:37 +0000

Last backup: 2014-10-23 05:30:36 +0000

Size of backup disk: Excellent

Backup size 3 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

3% WindowServer

1% DesktopServicesHelper

1% Finder

0% fontd

0% DiskImages UI Agent

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

223 MB mds_stores

132 MB Finder

86 MB WindowServer

60 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent

60 MB Safari

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

4.92 GB Free RAM

2.12 GB Active RAM

528 MB Inactive RAM

1.01 GB Wired RAM

2.65 GB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

You might want to check into these two in Launch Daemons (and uninstall according to their instructions unless you absolutely have to have them):

[loaded] com.rogueamoeba.instanton-agent.plist Support

[running] com.syniumsoftware.CleanAppDaemon.plist Support

I've never heard of these - what are they for?

[not loaded] info.lokiware.attachmenttamer.cleanup.plist Support

[invalid?] info.lokiware.attachmenttamer.setupagent.plist Support

This update was incompatible with maybe 50% of my applications (VMWare Fusion, a number of java apps, email clients, word processing programs, ...).

Add iMovie HD to the list.

hey thanks for the look over of my system. those two files, judging by their name, are 2 small pieces of software - 1 attachment tamer allows pictures to be attached in email without a full image view in the email . the other the rogue media one is for an application that allows me to record from any source on my computer. it must start up the program on startup. i could be wrong cause i dont know the lingo but from their file names thats what i can guess. thanks

I've managed to fix, most of my problems on my own, but not all of them. My iMacs speed is still 'super' slow, and I get a message stating that my current version of Java is out of date, no matter how many times, I download the correct version from the Java site, meant for Yosemite.

The problems that are occurring, most definitely are effecting more then just a couple of us. I understand that this message won't be read by apple, but I still remember a time, about 5 years ago when their customer support was very helpful. I don't know if it still is, but has anyone who has applecare phoned apple, and if they had, what did apple suggest.

greenmind wrote:

I get a message stating that my current version of Java is out of date, no matter how many times, I download the correct version from the Java site, meant for Yosemite.

Some apps still require Java SE 6 from Apple, and if you installed Yosemite over a previous OS X it was removed. If that's what it is offering to install for you, go ahead as the Apple version goes into a different location than the Oracle Java SE 8 goes. Both can be used with Yosemite without conflicting with each other.

Ah, okay. And one last question. What internal hard rive would you recommend? I know there's WD and Seagate, so i dont know which to pick.

You've been extremely helpful. Thank you so much!! 🙂

Also, I checked my purchases tab in the App Store, and I see the OS Mavericks is there. Is it possible to just reinstall it again at this moment without any complications, or would that mess up my laptop even more?