Thanks for the quick reply, Missy. Unfortunately, I don't have a Snow Leopard backup. I guess I'm going to have to buy a Îretale Snow Leopard DVD and do a completely clean install. Ah well, it'll be worth it!
Regards, Gavin On 10 Oct 2011, at 11:52 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! Before I installed lion, I backed up my SL install to an external drive > using Carbon Copy cloner. Once I discovered that > I wasn't happy with lion, I reformatted my macbook's internal drive and used > CCC to get snow leopard back onto it. If you > didn't make a backup, though, I'm assuming you could use a snow leopard DVD > and accomplish essentially the same thing; only > difference being that you'd have to reinstall all your other software. I > guess my point is that going back to SL should be > reasonably simple. I am more or less clueless about the mac, and I managed > it. (smile) > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gavin > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:42 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Downgrading From Lion To Snow Leopard > > Hi listers, > > Does anyone have any experience with downgrading from Lion back to Snow > Leopard? There are a number of things in Lion that > are seriously irritating me, one of which is that my computer came > preinstalled with it and, because Lion is only available > through the app store or on an external hard drive, I can't reinstall without > an Internet connection if I ever run into > problems. Also, I prefer the way VoiceOver handles certain pronunciations and > inflections in Snow Leopard. Another reason for > downgrading is that the driver for my Roland SonicCell, which is a MIDI sound > module, is only compatible with Snow Leopard or > earlier. By the looks of it, Roland hasn't released an updated driver for it > yet, and I can't afford to sit around and wait > for that to happen. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Gavin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
