Snow Leopard, Yosemite, and Parallels
I've been running Yosemite on an external HD - I think it's ok, but I still prefer Snow Leopard. However, 10.6 is getting left behind, and not upgrading is becoming harder and harder. Being able to run both would be ideal. Sadly, it's not possible...
...oh but wait - it IS! Here's how :
1. Ignore those who say Snow Leopard Server is no longer available from Apple. It IS. (I was told "no" the first time, but the second time I insisted they were wrong, was put through to their Senior Team - in the US - and a DVD is on its way, total cost less than £20 including P&P). Make sure you PHONE - S.L.S. is only available on a DVD and is not available via the App Store.
2. Buy a virtualiser (Parallels 10 will load S.L.S. and will run in Yosemite, but there is also VMWare which might do exactly the same thing).
3. For security, giving you the chance to back out if things go wrong, do the following, else do 4 :
- download the Yosemite installer, and install it on an empty partition on an external HD
- install your virtualiser in the same partition, insert the S.L.S. DVD and create your virtual Snow Leopard engine
- test it out on applications that will not run in Yosemite, e.g. PowerPC apps
- when happy, backup your main computer, then repeat the first two steps (on the computer not external HD)
- please note - I've run Yosemite on a HD but not S.L.S. within a virtualiser - still waiting for DVDs to arrive!
4.
- Download Yosemite and upgrade Snow Leopard on your main machine
- install your virtualiser of choice and create a virtual engine, using the S.L.S. DVD from Apple
Without this, I couldn't run Dragon Dictate software in Yosemite (I have DD 2.5). Yes, Yosemite also has dictation functions, but there's no way to train it - you're reliant on its database of words and names.
iMac Core i5 12GB RAM-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8), null