OS X :: Snow Leopard - Upgrading / Clean Installing?

Aug 31, 2009

I just got my snow leopard disc in the door and I threw in the disc, selected the Macintosh HD partition and started installing. I didn't get an option to select either an "upgrade" or fresh install. Could someone please tell me if it's upgrading leopard to snowleopard or is it just installing a clean version of SL? It's currently on a screen where there's 55min left and it says "Installing" Should I press quit or just continue? I just wanna upgrade from leopard to SL. it's a full retail SL disc if that matters.

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OS X :: Clean Installing With Snow Leopard Disk?

Aug 26, 2009

i have looked all over, and i cant find a simple way to clean install with the SL disk. The screen shots i've seen on engadget shows just "update".

I currently have leopard installed, and time machined everything. I just wanna clean install snow leopard, then navigate into my time machine folder via finder and manually bring over a few files.

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OS X :: Staved Off Installing Snow Leopard - Clean Install?

Dec 24, 2009

I've staved off installing Snow Leopard but a ready to jump in now. Big question: Does it need a clean install or is the upgrade from the CD OK?

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Installing Applications DVD After Clean Install

May 13, 2012

I've just finished a clean installation of Snow Leopard on My MacBook Pro. I've got a cd, called "Applications Install Disc", from which i was supposed to install Iphoto etc. But when i start installing, it says "Installation Failed". It says that an unknown failure has occured. Now i can't install these programs, and it's pretty sad.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Software Update After Snow Leopard Clean Install

Jul 3, 2012

Today I performed a clean install of Snow Leopard on my late 2009 Mac Mini. After completing the installation, I began running software update to bring everything up-to-date.While software update did find and install a number of updates (10.6.8v1.1 Combo update, Security Update 2012-002, Apple Software Installer Update, iLife Support 9.0.4, Remote Desktop Client Update 3.5.3, Airport Utility, Java, Safari) it did not find an update for iTunes (which starts at version 9.x, I believe, in a SL clean install).I assumed that this was some sort of random glitch and manually downloaded and installed iTunes 10.6.3.After that, I re-installed iLife '11 (from a retail DVD, not the App Store).When I ran Software Update again, it found updates for Garage Band, iDVD, and iWeb, but it did not show the updates for iPhoto and iMovie.I found this to be unnerving, as I performed a clean install when I first obtained this Mini a few months ago and didn't experience any of these problems - all of my Apple software updated automatically through Software Update without a hitch. 

I began researching this problem online and found that other people have been experiencing this same problem (or some variation of it), and it seems like it began appearing around the time Apple updated some of its security certificates in March.In particular, I've found several references to the missing iPhoto update.This one is especially noticeable because an iPhoto library created in iPhoto 9.2.3 will not open in iPhoto 9.0, and this generates an error upon opening the program (i.e., a user backs up their iPhoto library created in 9.2.3, performs a SL clean install, reinstalls iLife, goes through the Software Update process until it shows that no more updates are available, and are shocked to find that they are unable to open their backed up iPhoto library because they have an out of date version of iPhoto).The most common (and admittedly logical) solution proposed in the threads I've read is to download any necessary updates directly from the Apple website.  However, I am curious as to why this previously functional feature now appears to be broken.Has anyone else been struggling with this?Ā  Does it indeed have something to do with the new security certificates? Is Apple aware of the problem?

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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: Upgrading Two Macs Tiger & Leopard To Snow Leopard?

Aug 26, 2009

I've got two Macs: one Tiger (iLife '06), and one Leopard (iLife '08) and I would like to upgrade both to Snow Leopard. I'm in the UK.I need help finding the best price/capability compromiseI have looked at the prices for doing this and come up with the following options:Most expensive optionBuy the 5-user Mac Box Set (Including OS X Snow Leopard, iLife 09, iWork 09) for 179This way I've got both machines running the latest everything.Next OptionBuy the Single User Leopard box set (including iLife/iWork 09) to upgrade the Mini to Leopard (?108.34) then buy the Snow Leopard family upgrade box to upgrade both machines to Snow Leopard (?39), total ?147.34. This way I have iLife/iWork 09 on the MacMini but not the MacBook.

Cheapest OptionBuy the Single User Leopard disc to upgrade the Mini to Leopard (?68.99) then buy the Snow Leopard family upgrade box to upgrade both machines to Snow Leopard (?39), total ?107.99.

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OS X :: Upgrading To Snow Leopard

Jun 11, 2009

A while back I was asking about upgrading from OS X to Leopard. Well I never got round to it, so now I'm wondering if I should go straight to Snow Leopard.This is from the system profiler on my Mac.

Model Name:iMac
Model Identifier:iMac5,1
Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:1
Total Number Of Cores:2
L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB
Memory:1 GB
Bus Speed:667 MHz

Is this okay for changing to Snow Leopard?

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OS X :: Upgrading To Snow Leopard Without Backup On Mac

Dec 23, 2010

So my friend got me Snow Leopard for Christmas and I want to upgrade my mac from Leopard to this but is there a way to upgrade without doing a clean install? Mainly because right now I have no external HDD. Only just two 2GB USB Drives which I already used to backup my pictures and documents. But if something goes wrong during the installation is there a way to go back to Leopard?

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OS X :: Upgrading From Tiger 10.4 To Snow Leopard 10.6 ?

Aug 28, 2009

It might be possible to use the $29 disc but is is legal?:

"The actual 10.6 EULA:

C. Leopard Upgrade Licenses. If you have purchased an Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. If you have purchased a Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of ļ¬ve (5) Apple-branded computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household (as deļ¬ned above), are used by persons who occupy that same household, and each such computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. The Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard License does not extend to business or commercial users.to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of ļ¬ve (5) Apple-branded computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household (as deļ¬ned above), are used by persons who occupy that same household, and each such computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. The Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard License does not extend to business or commercial users.

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OS X :: Upgrading From G4 To Intel For Snow Leopard

Oct 28, 2009

We are using Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 with a 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 here and cannot upload the latest version of Safari, Skype, Quicktime 7, and are having difficulties with an airline booking website - probably because of the above. Would like to upgrade to Snow Leopard but this OS want us to have an Intel processor (think?) so not exactly sure if this is possibly because of the version of Mac processor we have.

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OS X V10.4 :: 10.4.11 Upgrading To Snow Leopard / DVD Won't Load

Apr 2, 2012

I could use a bit of help updating my macbook from 10.4.11 to Snow Leopard. I have 10.4.11 and i'm updating to 10.6, Snow Leopard. I've already checked basic requirements, backed up and i'm ready to install.I chatted with a apple specialist when I purchased the dvd for snow leopard and asked if it was what i needed to upgrade all three of my macs; 2 running 10.5.8 and one running 10.4.11. They said yes. I had no trouble updating the machines running 10.5.8.But the one running 10.4.11 isn't so easy. The trouble is the install DVD will not boot and just shuts down the hard drives (the machine says 'restartto begin install' but when i restart the dvd spits out on restart). Does anyone know how to get the disk to install? Mounting the disk didnt work either, it allows me to begin the installation but then the machine reboots.

I'd done some research previously and was told by Apple that i needed to get the Box Set in order to upgrade my machine running 10.4.11. However according to apple's support forums url... the Snow Leopard upgrade should work. I just don't know if there are special steps. 

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

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OS X V10.4 :: Upgrading From Tiger To Snow Leopard

Apr 18, 2012

Any most cost effective way to upgrade from tiger to snow leopard after system crash.

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iMac, iOS 4.3.3, After hard drive failed

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Upgrading From Snow Leopard To It?

Jun 8, 2012

considering a new macbook lion 10.7, can I upgrade my imac from snow leopard to lion

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Upgrading From Lion?

Jun 18, 2012

I am using Snow Leopard but am trying to upgrade to Lion.Ā  I went to the App store, clicked on Buy Lion, put in apple id, confirmed my billing info and clicked on Done. Nothing happened but it went back to the OS Lion page and the little gear wheel at the top of the page has been spinning ever since, been at least 15 minutes now.Ā  Is it downloading or is the wheel just spinning and I am wasting my time?Ā  I knew it would take some time to download, but I does that spinning wheel mean that is taking place?

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X Mavericks :: Upgrading From Snow Leopard To 10.9.3?

Jun 2, 2014

I need to upgrade from OS x 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to OSĀ  X Mavericks, and then to OS X Mavericks v10.9.3.Ā  Can I do that, and how on my MacBook Pro?Ā 

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X :: Clean Install For Snow Leopard?

Aug 27, 2009

there is too much about clean installs now on this forum... and a lot of information conflicts with other information. can someone just have a step by step process of how to do a clean install for snow leopard below.PLEASE no guessing, and only people who have done it please comment.then we can just link people to this thread.

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OS X :: How To Do Clean Install Of Snow Leopard

Aug 30, 2009

I thought this might be useful if you wanted do do a clean install with the Snow Leopard DVD. There have been a lot of threads asking about it. Apple designed Snow Leopard 10.6 so that you cannot select 'Erase Install' when booting from DVD like in Leopard 10.5. Apple states that you need Leopard 10.5 installed in order to 'Upgrade' or 'Install' Snow Leopard 10.6 - This is not true.

This guide shows you how to do a clean install of Snow Leopard 10.6. Extremely hand if you need to install a new hard drive. Please note this was performed off the 'Upgrade' disk - which shouldnt [according to Apple] be able to do a full install! I also outline how to migrate your data to the new install. Let me know what you think. YouTube - Guide: How To Do A Clean Fresh Full Install Of Apple Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.

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OS X :: How To Clean Install Snow Leopard?

Sep 1, 2009

I'm fairly new to the Mac OS. Switched from evil Windows. World is much more stable.

I want to upgrade via clean install to snow leopard. I have read mixed messages that this can and cannot be done. If it can, can someone please post some clear and definitive instructions in how to do this from the upgrade disc of snow leopard.

I currently have:

- Original Leopard disc 10.6.5

- iLife 2009 DVD (purchased separately)

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OS X :: How To Do A Clean Install Of Snow Leopard?

Sep 11, 2009

I'm really getting sick of all these glitches...How can I do a clean install of everything?

I have a TB drive and everything is pretty much backed up on there (I use Time Machine).

So how do I go about doing this?

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Applications :: Upgrading To Snow Leopard For ILife 11

Nov 10, 2010

I have Leopard, the late edition of 09, or was it '08, in October? Anyhow, I am going tomorrow to upgrade to Snow Leopard mainly so that I can have iLife 11, but it is not compatible with Leopard. My question is this when I am installing the new stuff, do I need to go thru and delete anything at all??? Or do my things transfer over automatically? Also, will this new software, or is it hardware? will it take up more space on my Macbook or does it override Leopard, kind of take it's place and not take up more space on my computer? Yeah, I know, once again, lay(wo)man's terms and I know that I should know this stuff but I don't. I also do not have any external device backing up my stuff, which I know is a HUGE and COLOSSAL mistake. Is there an easy way to back stuff up, online or something? What about an inexpensive way? What do you all suggest for that, backing up, INEXPENSIVELY? Flash drives are out of the question for something of this measure, right? Discs also? I know nothing about this and I'm guessing that before I go installing Snow Leopard & iLife 11, that I need to consider this.

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OS X :: No Access To Second Account After Upgrading To Snow Leopard

Sep 11, 2009

I have another user on our network with an administrator account on my MBP, who normally logs on remotely. After upgrading to 10.6 there's no remote access to their account. When I tried to access the account from the machine, I get into the account but everything is unresponsive and the only way out is to turn the computer off using the on/off button.

Things are getting a bit desperate!

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OS X :: Upgrading From Tiger To Snow Leopard - No Backup

Oct 12, 2009

Posting for a friend who has just purchased Snow Leopard Box Set and wants to upgrade from Tiger. She was half way through the installation when she thought that Snow Leopard had not asked her to back up and she cancelled the installation half way through (not sure how, think she just turned off her Mac). She turned it back on but the only option it is giving her is too continue with the installation of Snow Leopard.

What she wants to know is will the erase all her data on her hard drive, or will she still have her files located in Documents/ Downloads etc when the installation is complete. I know when I upgraded from Leopard all these files were still present, I'm not so sure if it is the same with Tiger. Shes really worried about this as she has some valuable files in there.

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MacBook Air :: Any Reason For Upgrading To Snow Leopard?

Oct 18, 2009

My rev C. SSD runs beautifully, for hours and hours, usually without the fan on. Is there any reason for me to upgrade. This is my only computer, and I'm tempted by the old saying: If it ain't broke.

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Mac Pro :: Upgrading To Snow Leopard Without Affecting Other Drives

Jan 12, 2010

I have a 2007 mac pro running tiger currently. I'd like to upgrade to snow leopard, but I want to make sure that I'm not affecting the other drives on my computer. Currently I have all my apps on the main drive (the one that came from apple) and three other drives on the other bays. What is the best way of doing a fresh install without worrying about my other drives?

I was thinking of removing the three drives, do my upgrade and then slotting the drives back in, would my computer recognize these drives? Do I even have to take these drives out? I am also going to back up my main drive via super duper. If something happens during my upgrade, how can I clone my old drive data back?

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Upgrading To Mountain Lion From It?

Mar 27, 2012

Will I be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion straight from Snow Leopard, or will I have to buy Lion first?

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MacBook Pro 2.5 Ghz., Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4 Gb of RAM

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Upgrading Snow Leopard To It On Firewire HDD?

Apr 12, 2012

I have Snow Leopard installed on a partition on a Firewire HD, back when my MacBook Pro was also running SN. Since then I have upgraded to Lion.Ā I recently tried to boot from the SN partition on the FW HD, only to get the 3 beep error (which I discovered later means the Mac can't boot from an earlier version than the current OS it's running...)Ā 

So, I would now like to upgrade the Firewire HD version of OSX from Snow Leopard to Lion [keeping the user folder in place, with docs, apps etc], but the installer says it can't be done. Do I have to erase the partition and do a clean install? It's pretty annoying if I do!Ā 

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MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz Core2Duo 3Gb 15, Mac OS X (10.7), Firewire 800 1tb external disk

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OS X Technologies :: Upgrading From Snow Leopard To Lion?

Apr 12, 2012

When I upgrade will I lose my mail and do I have to reinstall iLife and iWorks OR I will be able to transfer everything from my Time Machine Backup? Also, will my third party software not transfer over?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

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Intel Mac :: Upgrading From 10.5.8 To Snow Leopard & Lion?

Apr 13, 2012

Currently I have an iMac 10.5.8 with an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2Go Ram. Since January I didn't had much system updates because my software is apparently too old ... And I am kind of paranoid about the Trojans that I might have because I use the old version plus Safari is getting blocked very often. So I decided to by first Snow Leopard and then Lion. The thing is that I live in Norway & I will have to use the Norwegian apple store to by those programs but my OS X is in French. So I was wondering if I will be able to choose my language or the whole system will be automatically in Norwegian? The second question is to know if it is difficult to upgrade? I am a Mac user because I don't have any clues about the computers and Mac is always working. I read some complaints from people who after installing Snow Leopard couldn't use properly their printers or other apps... Is there is something I (completely ignorant person) should be aware of before doing the upgrade? Ā 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Intel Mac :: Upgrading From Snow Leopard To Lion?

Apr 25, 2012

I received the Snow Leopard upgrade disc from Apple.Ā  The instructions read to simply upgrade to SL version 10.6.8 after running the installation disc, and then to purchase the Lion upgrade from the Mac App.Ā  However, this SL version seems to be 10.5.8, and none of the 10.6.8 or lower updates will work.Ā  I found a 10.6.1, but that won't install either.Ā  They all say that I need OS 10.6 and I can't find it. I have a 2009 iMac with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

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iMac (20-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Upgrading From 10.6.5 To Mountain Lion?

Jun 28, 2012

I'm running 10.6.5 on my Mid 2010 15" MBP. I was also a MobileMe user. Ā 

Now I'm thinking about upgrading to Mountain Lion upon it's release, and have questions to help me decide if I want to use iCloud or not. Ā 

1) I have zero interest in Lion and want to skip it, going directly to Mountain Lion. Can this be done? Ā 

2) If I choose to use iCloud, during setup, one is given a list of checkboxes for the items they want to sync. One checkbox is labeled "documents & data".

Once this box is checked and a sycn is executed, what specific files are uploaded from my MacBook Pro? Ā 

Do I have control over what goes up into iCloud? Initially my iCloud usage would be mostly data files, I would want to choose which files go to the cloud and which files remain on my hard drive. Is this possible? Ā 

The amount of control over what goes into the cloud is my main concern. If I have total control, then iCloud will be great. If not then I will use another solution.

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Mac OS X (10.6.5)

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