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Title: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 09 October 2011, 23:40
My imac has lion on it, but I want put it back to snow leopard can you tell me the process ? I do have leopard disk but its not doing it ?  :undecided:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: damien010685 on 10 October 2011, 02:06
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/idUS271497066220110726
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Diamond Hell on 10 October 2011, 11:17
My imac has lion on it, but I want put it back to snow leopard can you tell me the process ? I do have leopard disk but its not doing it ? 

Macs - they just work, in their way.

So just f*cking use it.  You WILL like it. :grin:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 11:18
My imac has lion on it, but I want put it back to snow leopard can you tell me the process ? I do have leopard disk but its not doing it ? 

Macs - they just work, in their way.

So just f*cking use it.  You WILL like it. :grin:

Fu*ck off DH  :grin:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Diamond Hell on 10 October 2011, 11:19
Roll back? Steve's hardly cold in his grave and you're already trying to make him spin in it.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 12:11
Roll back? Steve's hardly cold in his grave and you're already trying to make him spin in it.

Ha ha ha Hope your well mate  :grin:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 12:18
why would you want to go back anyway!!
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 12:42
why would you want to go back anyway!!

Because its P*ssing about with Microsoft word , so just going to put Leopard back on until Lion get it together :wink: 
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 12:47
why would you want to go back anyway!!

Because its P*ssing about with Microsoft word , so just going to put Leopard back on until Lion get it together :wink: 

hmm strange Ive had no problem with work and i use that program quite a lot!!
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Jay on 10 October 2011, 12:54
After upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard some people have reported issues, the way round it is either fresh install Snow Leopard or Lion (after backing up your sh!t first ofc).
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 12:56
After upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard some people have reported issues, the way round it is either fresh install Snow Leopard or Lion (after backing up your sh!t first ofc).

Yep and its taking Fooking ages to do  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 13:07
After upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard some people have reported issues, the way round it is either fresh install Snow Leopard or Lion (after backing up your sh!t first ofc).

Yep and its taking Fooking ages to do  :rolleyes:

feel for you hate the time it takes to re install mac!!!
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Jay on 10 October 2011, 13:10
Stick Winblows 7 on it, takes 30 mins to install  :tongue:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 13:40
Stick Winblows 7 on it, takes 30 mins to install  :tongue:

how dare you even suggest that ;)
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: T_J_G on 10 October 2011, 18:38
After upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard some people have reported issues, the way round it is either fresh install Snow Leopard or Lion (after backing up your sh!t first ofc).

Yeah like my £280 music editing software not working. Won't be upgrading either the OS or the software!
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Diamond Hell on 10 October 2011, 19:15
how dare you even suggest that ;)

Easily - Bootcamp that sucker.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 19:17
how dare you even suggest that ;)

Easily - Bootcamp that sucker.

yh but prefer parallels do it all within mac, not fan of partitioning and swapping boot discs all the time
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Jay on 10 October 2011, 19:42
Stick Winblows 7 on it, takes 30 mins to install  :tongue:

how dare you even suggest that ;)

I could have suggested he upgrade from Lion to XP :evil:

 :grin:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Kerrse on 10 October 2011, 19:50
I have no issues with word on Lion are you running 2011 office ? In fact not had any issues apart from a cracked version of Photoshop wouldn't work.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 10 October 2011, 19:53
Stick Winblows 7 on it, takes 30 mins to install  :tongue:

how dare you even suggest that ;)

I could have suggested he upgrade from Lion to XP :evil:

 :grin:

xp one of the best operating system ever
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 20:08
I have no issues with word on Lion are you running 2011 office ? In fact not had any issues apart from a cracked version of Photoshop wouldn't work.

2008 version  :wink:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: F17BAD on 10 October 2011, 20:11
why would you want to go back anyway!!

Because its P*ssing about with Microsoft word , so just going to put Leopard back on until Lion get it together :wink: 

whats the issue with Word ? got it on mine use it a lot and its fine. my word is latest version tho
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 10 October 2011, 20:13
why would you want to go back anyway!!

Because its P*ssing about with Microsoft word , so just going to put Leopard back on until Lion get it together :wink: 

whats the issue with Word ? got it on mine use it a lot and its fine. my word is latest version tho

Lets face it Lion is not together just yet needs more time for updates ? :wink:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: F17BAD on 10 October 2011, 20:15
Ah right.. must be because your trying to run a older version.. iv had no issues at all. so don't see why it needs more updates unless I'm just lucky lol
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Jay on 10 October 2011, 20:31
updates? pah! You're having a giraffe! Apple does NOT give a sh!t about your old software and why should they? In fact they don't really care about many third party programs, even Quick Books has had to sort their lives out. They were using Rosetta to run their program on the new Macs because it was out dated and originally written for the OLD Power PC architecture, lucky for them Apple provided Rosetta in the first place, Quick Books never did rewrite their program to conform to the new architecture and relied on Rosetta to do the translation and too run it - oops that was pulled from Lion and screwed over lots of users :grin:

Moral of the story is to check that your old software will run on a Mac (or Windows even) if it's using a newer operating system to what you currently are, same goes for upgrading, check the website for all your main software packages. It's something most people take for granted on Windows because it's so backwards compatible for most things and generally it will just work.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Kerrse on 11 October 2011, 11:12

It's something most people take for granted on Windows because it's so backwards 

Moral of the story is stop running old software & get yourself up to date  :grin:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: GrandMstRamRod on 11 October 2011, 11:24

It's something most people take for granted on Windows because it's so backwards 

Moral of the story is stop running old software & get yourself up to date  :grin:

some/ many software has not been updated for 10.7  so has problems
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 11 October 2011, 11:47

It's something most people take for granted on Windows because it's so backwards 

Moral of the story is stop running old software & get yourself up to date  :grin:

There's newt wrong with 2008 Microsoft word it suets my needs and work fine with Snow Leopard  :grin:.

Lion is still unstable yet anyway  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Jay on 11 October 2011, 11:51

It's something most people take for granted on Windows because it's so backwards 

Moral of the story is stop running old software & get yourself up to date  :grin:

That's great in theory  :grin: Problem is that some software costs thousands and it's damned costly to just upgrade the OS and then all software that doesn't run because of the upgrade, So you're left with loosing money from the downtime in reinstalling Snow Leopard and the old software's or loosing money by upgrading the OS and all software's that require a new version  :grin: oh and then you realize you've just upgraded the OS and purchased all new versions of the software you use, install most of it then find one of the important packages still doesn't run  :laugh:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Kerrse on 11 October 2011, 12:58
Personally not had any issues with any purchased software myself or any issues of it being unstable.

 :cool:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 11 October 2011, 16:39
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/idUS271497066220110726

Thanks very much for the above link, sorted it right out cheers Steve.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: bobotheclown on 12 October 2011, 06:05
why would you want to go back anyway!!

Because its P*ssing about with Microsoft word , so just going to put Leopard back on until Lion get it together :wink: 

whats the issue with Word ? got it on mine use it a lot and its fine. my word is latest version tho

any version other than the lastest of MS Office for Mac was using PPC code and since Lion no longer supports PPC code then all software that was written for PPC will no longer work. That includes Bejeweled 2.

If you are using Snow Leopard and want to find out what programs you are using are PPC then go to the Apple in the Finder bar (top left of the screen) - ABOUT THIS MAC - MORE INFO. On the left hand side look for SOFTWARE - APPLICATIONS. There is a column called KIND. This is where you wil see if your favourite software is either PPC or Intel. If it's PPC then it won't work in Lion.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Kerrse on 12 October 2011, 21:15
I still have 2008 on my iMac as well as 2011 it works fine with Lion.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 12 October 2011, 21:20
I still have 2008 on my iMac as well as 2011 it works fine with Lion.

Try and do an attachment from 2008 microsoft word  :angry:
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Kerrse on 12 October 2011, 21:52
I still have 2008 on my iMac as well as 2011 it works fine with Lion.

Try and do an attachment from 2008 microsoft word  :angry:

Works fine for me .. i bought my 2008 copy via a company deal .but got the new version another way as hadn't had 2008 long before the new one came out.
Title: Re: Lion back to snow leopard?
Post by: Steve30 on 16 October 2011, 10:02
Gone back to Lion now snow leopard seems to be slower and just put Microsoft 2011 office on there works like dream now  :wink: