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How To Downgrade To Snow Leopard, if you need to.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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the best way to downgrade from Lion to
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snow loard now while Mac OS 10 line is a
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great operating system some people may
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not like some of the new features or
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perhaps there's programs that you use on
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a regular bases that aren't yet
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supported by a lion and in this case it
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might make sense for you to downg
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back to snow leopard so I'm going to
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show you how to do that today so the
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first and best way to downgrade to snow
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leopard is if you have a time machine or
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any type of backup of your entire system
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and it's very easy to downgrade if you
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have this and the backup does have to be
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of when you are on Snow Leopard so to do
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this you're going to restart your
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computer and when you hear the Apple
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chime you're going to hold down the
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option key and this is going to put you
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into the recovery disc that's built into
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Mac OS
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[Music]
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10 from here you're going to see a list
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of your discs and you're going to want
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to select recovery HD and hit enter from
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here you can see that the first option
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is restored from a time machine backup
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and assuming that you have your backup
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connected to your computer from here you
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can just select that option and it'll
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guide you right through to reinstalling
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from a time machine backup now if you
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have a backup from another disc if you
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used a different application to backup
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assuming it has your entire hard drive
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cloned you can select dis utility and
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then hit the continue button to go into
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dis utility and work from there then
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from the sidebar and dis utility you're
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going to want to select your hard drive
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in this case Macintosh HD then you'll
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see these tabs here and you're going to
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want to click on restore and from here
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it gives you the option to select a
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source image to restore your disc with
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so you drag in any disc that you have on
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the sidebar right here into this little
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destination field this is just an
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example this wouldn't actually work and
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then from there you'd click the restore
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button so what you do is you take your
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backup disc and drag it into that field
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to restore from there if you don't have
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a snow leopard backup of your disc
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you're going to need a retail copy of
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Mac OS 10 snow leopard to restore your
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disc with now these do cost $30 but you
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can still buy them so at this point
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you're going you want to pop in your
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snow leopard disc and restart your
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computer while holding down the c
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key now what this is going to do is it's
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going to force your computer to boot up
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from the snow uper installation DVD and
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you're going to see this normal looking
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startup uh sequence here but what's
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going to happen is it's going to boot
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into the snow lard install from here so
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from here you're going to have to select
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use English as the main language then
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from there you're going to have to go to
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the utilities menu and click on Disk
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Utility then from there on the sidebar
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you're going to click on your hard drive
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and this time not Macintosh HD uh but in
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this case the 250 GB internal hard drive
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you don't want to click on Macintosh HD
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and then over here you're going to click
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on the erase Tab and then you're going
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to have to select Mac OS extended
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journal from the dropdown and then you
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can name it if you want I'm just going
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to leave it as Untitled then click erase
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so before you do this you're going to
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want to make sure that you have your
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disc backed up word of warning though is
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if you do this and install snob then
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restore from a time machine backup that
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you did before you did this you'll be
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restoring to Lion again so it's best to
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just back up the files that you're going
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to need so then I'm going to click
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erase and once this is finished
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formatting you can go and you can quit
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dis utility and then from here install
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Mac OS 10 just like you normally would
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so you can see here my disc is entitled
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and here it is and I'm just going to
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click install so here you go it's going
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to take about 30 minutes and then Mac OS
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10 snow leopard will be restored and it
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should be just like before you upgrade
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it to Lion assuming you copy over the
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files you backed up afterwards so that's
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how you can downgrade Mac OS 10 Li to
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Mac OS 10 snow Looper and like always if
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you have any things that you'd like to
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see me do a howto
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on make sure to send me an email and
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I'll see what I can do I hope you found
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this video useful and thank you thank
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you for watching
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