I have been having strange issues with my 2.13GHZ SSD Air hanging on boot disk errors and a complete restore didnt help much. Also the fans would run when doing next to nothing and the air was cool to the touch. I cant really think of anything else to try so im going to try to have it replaced with a refurb rev B. Is there any internal differences between the two besides speed etc?
View 3 RepliesUpgraded to the lastest OS in December and its utterly killed my 1st gen MBA - within 15-20 minutes of watching video its operating at 100 degrees and thermally cuts out. Genius bar has replaced the thermal module and then advised me to go back to a previous OS as they reckon the machine simply can't handle the OS. I'm pretty sure it had Leopard on when I bought it, and I soon after upgraded to Snow Leopard. Can I get hold of installation disks anywhere? I've probably got the originals somewhere, but as half my stuff is in storage, not sure where. Â
Other thing is how do I physically do this? Whilst I've got an external disk to backup to as I don't have the airport extreme I used to have it connected through with me, time machine isn't recognising it as the back up. Presumably if I do back up I won't then be able to restore files anyway to an older OS?Â
My superdrive isn't with me either, so can I load the files from the disk to a USB stick and boot/install from there? I'm going to manually back up and will lose a load of software, but frankly the machine is useless now anyway so I've got to try something. No idea what it will do to my iphones and ipad apps, but again, I'm pretty well stuffed for a laptop as is..Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I upgraded my 13" unibody MacBook to Snow Leopard today and immediately began experiencing the same wireless connection problems that everyone has been having (sure wish I'd Googled "wireless network problems snow leopard" before installing... but the reviews were so glowing...) I would like to downgrade to Leopard but am afraid I will lose my files as I did not clone my HD before upgrading. I have Time Machine set to backup my files whenever my external HD is connected, so I connected my HD and did a Time Machine backup before installing SL. I did not clone my HD, which I am now regretting, but I thought that Time Machine backups were safe enough. I have the Leopard disks that came with my MacBook.
What I need to know is how I can reinstall Leopard and then restore my files as they were from the Time Machine backup I made before installing SL. As I have never tried to downgrade before I am worried and am hoping for step-by-step instructions for how I would do this. I am reading that I would need to do a clean install that would erase my hard drive but am not certain that I would then be able to restore my files using the Time Machine backup I made right before installing SL. The situation is complicated by the fact that I already tried to restore from the Time Machine backup I made before I installed SL, naively thinking that this would fix everything, but of course it only restated my files as they were before the SL install without changing the system back to Leopard.
(1) Reinstall Leopard using original disks (assuming it would have to be a clean install, as in erase hard drive and install system, but if not, all the better).
(2) Hook up the external HD and then ask Time Machine to "restore" the image of my MacBook's HD from the backup made immediately before installing SL.
I would like to have my wireless back.
I upgraded to snow leopard a few months ago. Its fine but its messing with my battery life. ever since i installed it told me to check battery. now my battery last only a few minutes. ive reset pram and smc but nothing helps. This battery is 8months old. I feel its the software. there is much written about this on forums with people having similar problems. Im thinking of going back to leopard. If i do, what kind of things will i lose? like data and apps?
I just got the new upgrade and it's caused a definite problem for me.
I use some audio connection software and while it will transfer from the mac to the external disk (an IDE drive in a proprietary format), it won't do the reverse. I believe this was an issue even with 10.5.3.
How can I go back to 10.5.2 when everything was rosy? Can I just download the 10.5.2 updater off the Appe, site and run that? Or do I basically need to back up my machine and reinstall my whole system over again?
Is it possible to delete the whole software system from my iMac (version 10.7.3, Lion), and put on everything from my MacBook (version 10.6, including all applications, like the older iTunes version etc.) on it? Not so that I'd see my MacBook on my big screen, but so that the iMac would independently run with 10.6 instead of Lion? The iMac is new and came with Lion.Nothing I work with/on on an every day basis works with Lion and I'm ready to throw the iMac out the window. Everything's fine under 10.6. I just wanted a bigger screen and more space.
I'm sure there are other threads about this when you know where to look, but I don't. I'm not very knowledgeable with computers, but I start to understand that I'm not the only one having a set of problems with Lion.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Basically I installed Snow Leopard but am not happy with it, buggy etc. I want to downgrade to regular Leopard. Is there any way I can do a Time Machine backup now just to save my "user files" and not my system files. Basically I would like to do a system restore but take my current state of user files in Snow Leopard. Is this possible?
View 23 Replies View RelatedAfter I bought and installed Snow Leopard, I realized some of the most important apps that I use do not work under the new OS and I've been waiting for weeks (months maybe) for some update from the developers but seeing as they are more likely to wait, I've decided to downgrade back to Leopard again, the thing is that I'm on a VERY tight schedule these weeks, I have a lot of deadlines to meet and I don't want to install the apps that do work on Snow Leopard back again in Leopard. I don't have a Time Machine backup from back when I was on Leopard, and I haven't even made one of SL either, just an external HHD with my data (but no apps).
I've read online that people are having a hard time downgrading because there are a lot of errors in Time Machine and Migration Assistant, the most common one I've read about is that the Migration Assistant does not allow you to migrate from a newer OS to an old one. Since the most important thing I wanna migrate are the applications I've already installed in SL, this would be counterproductive.
I have a new 27" 2.66Ghz Quad Core iMac which has got 10.6 installed. Does anyone know if I can go back and install 10.5?
Reason being, we run a content management system using quark 7.5 and are unable to upgrade to v8. There are operating issues running quark 7.5 on 10.6 and if I can go back to 10.5 that would solve everything.
I'm having the "messenger: mac typing issue" and decided to go back to Safari 3. I downloaded it from Apple's site but when trying to install it doesn't allow me to select my HD volume because it says there is a newer version. How should I procede?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to downgrade the Preview application in Snow Leopards. Just because i don't like the Insta Alfa in the new Preview
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to downgrade my iDisk storage capacity from 20 to 10 GB. I am following directions, but after selecting the desired option, the system does not give me any prompts to follow. I need to do this before June 30.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have recently downgraded my OSX from 10.9 to 10.8.5. I downloaded Mountain Lion on another computer running 10.9, and I partitioned a hard drive to boot the software. I was able to run 10.8.5 fine, but finder never opens. When I click on finder, open trash, or open a folder on the desktop, finder becomes the current application, but nothing else happens.Â
I am running an early 2009 iMac with a 20 inch display.Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 DueMemory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 (originally 2 GB)Â What works:I can spotlight search any file or applicationI can open any file on my desktop and any application on my dockI can view files in file browsers (such as selecting an image to upload)Â What doesn't work:I can't open finder, trash, or any folders on the desktop.
Preview crashes when I try to open a file.Menu bar items in the dock display differently (see picture)  What I've tried:Creating a new account (still the same)Setting finder to assign to different desktops (doesn't change anything)Hiding and showing finder (no change)Repairing disk permissions in disk utility (nothing)Relaunching finder (nothing)executing killall dock; killall finder in terminal (nothing)booting the mac in safe mode (still doesn't work)deleting finder settings via terminal (no change) Also, when I booted up the mac, it said that the boot-up failed. However, it opened up 10.8.5. Other notes:All administrator accounts were changed to standard accounts.When I create a new desktop, it is labeled as DesktopNum.
I think I have to give a brief history of my Mac life first. I previously owned the last generation iBook, then a MacBook (entry-level) 3rd gen before I upgraded to Penryn MBP this April.
I bought the MBP because I fell in love with the keyboard when I got to try the display unit in one of the Apple resellers here (I am from Manila, btw) so I sold my MacBook then upgraded to the Penryn MBP (entrylevel - 2.4ghz, 15inch).
I've been having a few problems with my MacBook Pro ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, and some of these problems haven't been remedied even after several reinstalls. The main thing that's bothering me is my screen has started to flicker slightly (most noticable when a page has a white background), and it occurs on any brightness. It used to do this in Leopard as well, but not to this extent - it only ever did it if I was running on battery power and if the brightness was turned down quite low. Under Snow Leopard it's doing it under all brightness levels and regardless of if it's charging or on battery. It doesn't happen at all in my Boot Camp partition, so although it could just be a hardware thing that happened to start around the time Snow Leopard installed, I'd like to reinstall Leopard and see if it helps at all.
However, my question is - I have a Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard, would I be able to use this at all after I reinstall Leopard? Even if it's just to get my documents and apps back?
OS X 10.7 is clearly the most advanced operating system ever (until the next one) but I'm not digging it at all. I wanna go back to 10.6. I still have my 10.6 disk. Upgraded from 10.6 to 10.7., and am now on 10.7.3. Tried running the 10.6 install disk at boot-up and the 10.6 install was all going fine but then nearly at the end Installer said "Installation Failed. Some support files couldn't be found."
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.4Ghz, Core Duo, 667mhz 4GB SDRAM
When downgrading from Lion using Time Machine got error message, how do I proceed to not lose data?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I'm one of the unlucky owners of Macbook Retina 15" Mid 2012. I was very satisfied with this computer, everything was great, untill I installed OS X Mavericks. My computer started to have GPU Panics all the time under some "heavier" usage like watching long videos on YouTube. I googled this problem and then I saw that I wasn't the only one, many people had problems after upgrading to Mavericks. I also read that downgrading to Mountain Lion solves the problem, but after the Internet Recovery update, when you are restoring your mac, it restores as Mavericks. I read Apple instruction how to revert os x, but it requires Time Machine backup from Mountain Lion, I already downloaded ML Installer from AppStore but I don't know how to install it.Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedI "downgraded" my computer back to leopard (10.5.8) from snow leopard (10.6.1) via the SL install disk and a time machine backup. Now my VMware Fusion virtual machine for Windows XP is missing in action. Where can I find this on my Time Machine backup so that I can see if I can restore it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI understand the "can't" in downgrading from 10.7 Lion to 10.6 SL, so I'd like to pose a related question.Â
Assume one has an iMac running 10.6.8 and it dies, and that AppleCare has expired. Assume there is a full TimeMachine backup and two current bootable clones (SuperDuper) as well. One orders a new iMac and it comes with 10.7 installed. I take it you can't clone over the old 10.6, or use Time Machine to make the new iMac like the old iMac in so far as data, preferences, bookmarks and so forth are concerened. Am I correct in this understanding?Â
If so, how would one, having 3 current 10.6.8 backups, get the new 10.7 iMac set up with data, photos, user preferences, bookmarks and so forth from the clone or the TimeMachine? Could you even use the backups?
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8G Ram; 4G Ram; 3G Ram; 2G Ram
So last December my laptop got smashed and everything works except for the backlit screen. In fact I can still use this laptop it is just extremely hard since the screen does not light up. The person that smashed it ended up buying me a new laptop so I have this beat up (and I mean the shell is destroyed) laptop with quite a lot of functioning parts.
Now a few weeks ago my girlfriends Grandad spilled a beer on his brand new 2010 Macbook. The logic board is shot so it is almost cheaper for him to buy a brand new laptop.
Would it be possible for me to take the logic board out of my 2008 Black Macbook and put it into his 2010 White Macbook?
By far the most interesting benchmark trend coming out of the latest Macbook Air tests is that of the 320M GPU - is this thing somehow clocked differently than in the Macbook/Macbook Pro?
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The latest Macbook Pro 13" 2.4 Ghz gets 33 FPS in Call of Duty 4, whereas the Macbook Air 13" (using the same 320M GPU) gets 40 FPS. Even the 1.4Ghz 11" gets 37! So obviously we're not talking about a CPU limited game - the only explanation then is that the GPU in the Macbook Air is clocked differently than in the 13" Macbook Pro, no?
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Again the Macbook Air clocked at 2.13 ghz is beating the 2.4 Ghz Macbook Pro in World of Warcraft and Portal! And in WOW the 11" 1.4ghz still manages to beat the 2.4 Ghz 13" Macbook Pro.
Anyone have any additional insight into this? Anand did a terrible job of testing these for gaming performance, unfortunately, so he may not have even noticed this trend.
Is the white one the same size as the 13" aluminum that now went pro?Pretty much, I want to know if I buy a case for the original 13" Metal uMB from InCase, will it fit on this plastic one? They don't have blue for this, but they have blue for the original aluminum one.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a 2008 13" white, plastic MacBook. Its a bit slow, but adequate. Thinking of selling it and paying the difference to get the 11" MacBook Air. I've heard it is similar in speed and has the same processor.
The main problem I have with my current MacBook is that its heavy - I need something lightweight to easily carry to school and class for note-taking and such.
How is the Air better or worse, and would I be losing anything significantly by replacing the 08 plastic MB with a MBA?
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I just upgraded my daughter from last year's MacBook to a new 2009 MacBook Pro (my mother will get her old one) by cloning the drive using SuperDuper. Everything works fine except it doesn't detect the audio hardware in the OS. I see that the new macbook pro has different audio hardware according to system profiler. Is there a way to copy the driver off the install DVD or should I just go ahead and reinstall everything.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHave searched on Mroogle but couldnt find what i was looking for.
I have my Blackbook connected to my tv via mini dvi to dvi then to hdmi, but i also have another laptop which is the old style Macbook Pro.
I was looking for a piece of software that would let me use the other laptop which isnt connected to the tv as a wireless keyboard and mouse?
Anyone ever tried this before? Any ideas?
My MacBook Pro was stoen this weekend and I need to know if the Find My Mac service can help locate it. Its a summer 2009 model 15" Macbook Pro. I have the computer's serial number, and the computer is registered to my Apple ID.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.53 GHz)
I just bought a macbook as a replace for my five year old iBook. I was planning on purchasing a second power adapter. I like the size and more rugged connector on the Macbook Air power adapter.
I have searched around and it sounds like the Air adapter will work with a MacBook but I am not completely convinced. I understand that this adapter will only charge or power the unit but not both.
Has anyone tried their Air adapter on a MacBook? Could an Air owner tell me the voltage and current rating (outputs) on their adapter?
I currently play warcraft on my older macbook pro. I am attracted by the latest macbook/macbook pros. But will the latest macbook still play warcraft well, or do I stay with the latest macbook pro?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI wanted to know if I can replace the upper case of a Core Duo white macbook with that of a Core 2 Duo black macbook? The white one has the distinctive yellowing of the rev A macbooks, so i'd like to make it better whilst making a black/white frankenMac.
If not, can I at least replace the airport card?
