Remove lion?

fox007

Can I remove lion osx on my mac book pro and go back to snow lepored with out loosing everything on the mac?

Sad Professor

No. If you have a Time Machine backup which includes backups made under Snow Leopard then you can restore to an earlier pre-Lion state. Otherwise you'll have to do a clean install of Snow Leopard, which involves wiping the hard drive and manually copying your Time Machine data over.

fox007

Sad Professor wrote: »

No. If you have a Time Machine backup which includes backups made under Snow Leopard then you can restore to an earlier pre-Lion state. Otherwise you'll have to do a clean install of Snow Leopard, which involves wiping the hard drive and manually copying your Time Machine data over.

Thanks for that I had it time machine back up:)

thegalavanter

Out of curiosity why would you wanna change back? Lion is amazing!

fox007

thegalavanter wrote: »

Out of curiosity why would you wanna change back? Lion is amazing!

I did like lion I just found everything way to buggy ie switching between iTunes and safari I just kept the beach ball of death.
It just did my head in so I went back to snow and all is great again.
Did anyone else have any issues with lion?

Gregor Samsa

fox007 wrote: »

Did anyone else have any issues with lion?

I did until I did a clean install (this doesn't wipe your drive, so you don't lose data). Then everything started running smooothly.

Wibbs

fox007 wrote: »

Did anyone else have any issues with lion?

Yep. Running both systems on two same model macbook pros I found similar issues to yours plus I found it more sluggish and overall more twitchy than Snow Leopard. Issues with wireless and networking, higher battery usage, runs hotter, more RAM hungry, time machine issues, new Mail I found had odd behaviour, sometime sluggish sleep performance, some issues with Adobe products. That's after a format and clean install too(and the updates applied).

To be fair the extra GUI features weren't things I would use(though some of the underbonnet stuff is nice to be fair). EG never used the old expose, resume irritated me, as did the lack of Rosetta and not so keen on the iPad with a keyboard GUI "improvements" the removal of java by default, even though you can just reinstall I thought OTT. So that would make a difference to ones personal user experience. For me these features weren't worth the other issues I had with Lion. I'll adopt a wait and see attitude to it until it's improved, just like I have with previous system rollouts.

Colonel Panic

I have had no problems with Lion at all.

On my old machine, It had Leopard when it came out, I upgrade installed Snow Leopard when I started making iOS apps and upgrade installed Lion.

Same with my newer machine. Came with Snow Leopard, upgrade installed to Lion. Zero problems.

conor.hogan.2

After using Lion on another laptop, I think I will skip it for another revision or two. Too many small niggly things despite all the great internal changes.

I might dual boot it, but I am short on space.

melekalikimaka

think I might change back, lack of rosetta is killing me