How To Downgrade From Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Without Losing Any Data

[0taiwan0ownz]

I cannot make a new partition? Please help

[monnyg1]

my partitions are the wrong way around. the partition i deleted was the top partition so now i have the bottom one left. but i cant drag it down to resize it because its at the bottom of the two partitions. the top one says its 500gb of free space how do i resize my bottom partition to the full hard drive memory. i only have 500gb of mem on the snow leopard partition i want my 1 tb of mem back how do i do it?

[piknias]

Is this also possible if i buyed the mac with Lion on it ?

I need SN Back

Logic 8 is not running on Lion :(

[oT3CHN0o]

when i turn on my computer while holding c with the snow leopard disk in. it skips the step that when we pick the drive.

Do you know how to fix?

[HackTheTouch]

@oT3CHN0o Hold down the option key instead.

[vebiification]

thanks for your video, very helpful! i would appreciate your opinion on this:

since i don't have enough free disk space on my lion partition to make a second SL partition, would it work if i just made a complete lion-backup (e.g. via carbon copy cloner) on an external drive, erase the lion partition via SL-install disk, simply re-install SL and then manually copy my user files from my external backup? (i read somewhere that restoring information from Lion in SL won't work)

[seanyp1987]

thanks, this helped me a lot, I can now use certain software on my partition drive with SL installed

[lawlmeruff1132]

I got a refurbished Mac that had snow leopard...:).But my iMac has lion.Worst decision ever to buy it.It's ok though.

[TheKominomi]

Hello! Nice video! :) I have been using osx lion for a while and I want to downgrade the same way as you showed me, but does this work if I have a bootcamp partition with windows installed?

[MrPngaz]

Will this work on MBP 13" Late 2011 ?? that built in with Lion?

[HUM4ID]

i want to downgrade to snow leopard because of the stupid wifi problem, do u have any solution for this?

[mattoffthewall]

Lol I know how you feel about getting screwed out of the new macbook =/ stuck with the black one haha

[topflightmexican]

also seeing your video, i see you deleted the bottom partition which was meant to be your Snow Leopard. I am confused since i kept the larger partition where it had Lion. Please help me.

[topflightmexican]

Hey i was wondering, does downgrading change your saved links on the browser? please respond ASAP. Thanks

[Matasume]

Can I download Lion again after downgrading to Snow Leopard?

[DroppedLine]

Does the iTunes Library and stuff like that work on Snow Leaopard like on Lion? (:

[MaZaHaKa009]

Hey what if you back up your shit with time machine, will it work?

[ozboybrian]

I regret Lion. It's shit. Can't even use my USB stick internet anymore :(

I want to downgrade... But REALLY can't risk losing all my data.

[zakriya29]

What if we dont want to save data? should we still have to create the partition?

[ZEZEtheX]

Do I need an External Harddrive to do this?

[KimTae7]

Everything worked fine but when I try to erase the partition it says that "Partition failed with the error: This operation requires a newer version of Mac OS X for this disk."

[cpPete993]

Does this same concept apply to removing a developer preview version of Lion (say, for example, 10.7.2 is the current version and you have the 10.7.3 beta)? Seems like it would, if you're simply just creating a new partition and installing there.

[outland2442]

My Western Digital Backup won't work on Lion, but did work on Leopard. Am I still able to downgrade with my backup?

[dantheiphoneman]

My computer gives 3 beeps doing this. I have a core i5 macbook pro 13'3 late 2011.

[bastifmbh]

hey,

thanks for this video!

everything worked fine! got both systems running right now..

my question is if it's possible to transfer all my apps like photoshop or whatever from lion to leopard and than delete lion after that..or can i just get all my files and stuff over to my "new" leopard partition and have to reinstall all my apps?

thank you so much!

[applemagnus]

By the way, great video!!!

[applemagnus]

Can i use a time machine backup from lion when I downgrade to snow leopard?

[TheT3CHnician]

thanks~ :)

[gregmaustin]

i tried to revert back to Snow Leopard and it worked. And I was able to use the software I wanted in Snow Leopard then I did a Software update and came home and i get nothing but a blue screen when I try to load Snow Leopard. But the lion partition still runs. Any idea?

[HackTheTouch]

@tjenatjohej Reinstall them.

[tjenatjohej]

I have a problem. I have downloaded lion 10.7 om pirate bay, and then the Google

Chrome

And safari stop work, Can somebody help me? :( please !

[NO1MACFAN]

@HackTheTouch whenever i try to boot from the disc it starts to load but then it gets a kernal panic.. ive done it about 3 times and it always gets a kernal panic.. what should i do..?? PLZ help...

[HackTheTouch]

@NO1MACFAN Are you sure your SuperDrive works? I would also try making a bootable image out of a flash drive or external hard drive.

[NO1MACFAN]

@HackTheTouch yea, im sure my SuperDrive works.. and I also tried the bootable image from a flash drive and it still gave me a kernal panic...

[VisionVeeProductions]

@HackTheTouch did that work,,, trying it and not working

[nikhilragarwal]

@NO1MACFAN You cannot downgrade if your mac originally shipped with 10.7

[TheXxHawksxX]

i am having a problem. i am trying the disc part. i put in my snow leopard disk into my mac book pro that came with the snow leopard but i waited for more than 1 hr waiting for it to show the installer and i have hold c too. the problem is that it stucks there with the apple logo and the spinning wheel. pls help

[outland2442]

@TheXxHawksxX Same shit is happening to me.

[leonardotmcosta]

07:28 LOL

[HackTheTouch]

@leonardotmcosta My Mah BLUBLULUULAH

[kktubelt]

Sorry if this was mentioned, I may not have noticed...but...

How do we save our itunes playlists when downgrading? I understand transfering over the music files, but the plists are gone... When I am running the Snowleopard partition, I find the iTunes Library file from the Lion side, try to open it, but (obviously) it says "this library was created by a newer version of itunes" or something like that. How do we solve this? Thanks!

[kktubelt]

@kktubelt Actually, solved my own problem- for anyone interested... If you backed up just before making a partition/installing SL then just go into time machine, find itunes library.itl in the iTunes folder, click restore, restore to your new itunes folder and "replace" original file. Works :)

[MumbulCore]

I'm just partitioning my hard rive now :) i hope this works:D :D :D

[latinoguy562]

okay so if we did select "Transfer from other volume" we don't need to see other part of video? please answer

[mineraals]

Hi,

My Macbook says that I can not remove my parttion

it says requires higher MAC OS X

please HELP!!!

[hungryforstrays]

I was wondering, whether responded by HackTheTouch himself or another user, after you have successfully downloaded SL onto the second partition, what do you do with the original partition with Lion on it? I've see a video of how to delete it using the OS x install disc that comes with your computer, but is that what I need to do? I don't want my disk partitioned at all, I want Lion gone all the way. I would appreciate the feedback! I've been at this for 4 hours now. Thanks guys.

[ripLasher45]

i need to down grade because i can't use screen flow any more and screen flow 3.0 sucks. i got lion from the app store and i don't have a snow leopard disk. it just came with my computer

[laurensdierickx]

Thumbs up for the password hint.

[iJorden25]

i have some curious question..can you install os x tiger on the latest macbook pro in different partition? does it work with DMG file>?

[iJorden25]

@iJorden25 or you need the OS X Tiger CD in order to install just like Lion require Snow leopard ?

[HackTheTouch]

@bangboom42 Yes.

[germgoins]

Dude!...what a ka-winky-dink...my daughter name is Taylor White... I'm going to play her birthday right now.

[thehad698]

you are gonna get so many emails from random people because you forgot to block it out

[dgui123451]

my partition only took 5 seconds how do i do it the right way

[marooni1]

I actually watched the entire video! very informative, thanks to YOU!

btw, you have radio quality voice.

[marooni1]

I actually watched the entire video! very informative, thanks to YOU!

[dmanno3]

HEY PLEASE HELP: my disk is on the bottom of the list where the partritions are so i cant make the hard disk bigger, even tho i have a ton of space above it

[Bewareofthewolves]

My imac came with Snow Leopard pre installed, so did not come with a disc, I then downloaded Lion for the app store. Does anyone know if it is possible for me to reinstall Snow Leopard without the disc?

[Kenny4391]

I get a Kernel Panic when I try installing snow leopard after restarting my macbook pro.

[pubate1]

Please help me .I have done everything you demonstrated but I couldn't delete the Lion partition after I got Snow leopard installed .It said "Partition failed with the error:

This operation requires a newer version of Mac OS X for this disk"

Please help me

[mistadj]

I have time machine back up and OS Lion prevents me from backing up ..even with the Disk. I dont care about losing data..just want to go back

[charynmae]

How did you get the MAIN HD? I couldn't extend my partition after deleting the lion partition:(

[threeonezero]

thanks for the video! I'm selling my old iMac that shipped with snow leopard but i had installed lion when it came out. i was going crazy trying to figure out what to do. thanks again

[Francambe1]

I need to go back to Snow Leopard on my late 2008 macbook pro and I do not have an external back up of all my files and documents (everything on my mac), only an original Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation disc, My question is basically, How can I go back to Snow Leopard without loosing any of my 184 GB stored on my macbook 250GB HD if I only have the installation disc? Thank you very much!!

[Francambe1]

Hi, first of all, Thanks a lot about this video and your help. I really need to ask you something abut this procedure Hack The Touch, what's your email? Basically my issue is that as many people, I absolutely hate Lion and do not understand where is the leap forward, with so many setbacks.

[Gazenpun]

I don't have backup can I still downgrade it,if yes how???

[Gazenpun]

I dont have backup but still can I downgrade it, if yes how?????????

[skakky]

i didnt back up my files or os before installing lion. Can i still downgrade to snow leopard without loosing any data? if yes how?

[HackTheTouch]

@skakky Watch the video... -_____-

[skakky]

@HackTheTouch yer i want to downgrade without loosing any data but i havent backed it up at all in nay way

[harsh39ify]

my disk utility is not workin while i partion it so what should i do

[TehInfamousPker]

when i try to boot to snow leopard cd it just stays at the apple logo and doesnt do anything.. been waiting for 20 min

[xRainingLlama]

why did macbook pro change to MAIN?

 you can't delete the first partion because the second cannoy be made bigger?

[tysonclewis]

i need help...every time i try to boot from my external HD with the install DVD on it i get the circle with a line through it like the no parking sign thing without the P...any ideads on what i might have done wrong

[HackTheTouch]

@GBabyTheGeneralTV Really, the only recent updates that Apple has screwed up would be OS X Lion and Final Cut X. Oh, and who could forget the absolute trash that was the third generation iPod Shuffle! :P

[HackTheTouch]

@GBabyTheGeneralTV I'm not sure what you being an artist has anything to do with OS X Lion, and you said "I brought the iPhone full price to unlock it and had to get a gevey sim", which is your fault, not Apple's. Apple sells an unlocked version of the iPhone 4 at their retail stores; you don't have to unlock one yourself. Your statement "they are trying to keep us occupied by technology" makes no sense whatsoever...

[faisal1410]

thanx dude

[95Geli]

Great Video!

Thx a lot :D

[balkmaster]

Maybe a stupid question but to recover all your data/programs from your Lion partition, you cannot use migration assistent via the snowleopard HD and then choose from the Lion-volume? Thanks for the vid btw :-)

[HackTheTouch]

@balkmaster Not a dumb question at all! You can definitely transfer your files over, but as for programs, I'm not sure. Theoretically, they should be Lion versions of the software, so I don't know about backwards compatibility with Snow Leopard. You may just have to reinstall all of your programs for Snow Leopard as I did, but hey, anything is worth trying!

[balkmaster]

@HackTheTouch thx for your answer and I tried but unfortunately it doesn't work (neither files or programs) 'cause migration assistent in my Snow leopard partition simply says it can't transfer any files because the source disk contains a newer OSX-version. So I think I'll have to copy all my data manually then :-( Damn!

[NikoDobb]

Wow... this would be nice to me... i want to install Pro Tools 9 HD... the stupid Lion don't let u uses Pro Tools until de 9.0.5 version... Snow Leopard come to papa... =P

[NikoDobb]

@NikoDobb I'm from argentina, my english sucks... =P

[HackTheTouch]

@TWHSDrumChannel You're going to have to either purchase an external hard drive, or borrow one from a friend. Sorry man!

[pubate1]

Thanks my friend .

[Macilici0us]

hey man i don't get what you do to get your old partition into the the new partition

what do you when your new partition runs out out of space?

[EdwardTheTechGeek]

macbook pro are amazing is it? :D

[evoxgsr21]

bro thank you so much...seriously you saved me from a major head ache

[n0ulz]

Thxs a lot that works pretty well for me :D

[michaellaroywilliams]

how do you UPGRADE to LION without losing data??

[HackTheTouch]

@michaellaroywilliams You can just install Lion over Snow Leopard.

[PACSLeader]

@michaellaroywilliams Stay with snow leopard. Lion is nice but snow leopard is better.

[qlobar]

Hi Taylor. Thank you for a great video.

Doesn't really work for me though. I don't come to the installation menu for snow leopard when starting up the computer, as you do. For me the screen turns black and a sign comes up saying "you need to restart your computer. hold down the power button until it turns off" Do you know how to solve this problem? I really would appreciate an answer.

All the best,

joakim

[MrFunnymanproduction]

u r missing recovery hd 

[HackTheTouch]

@MrFunnymanproduction This video was made during the Developer Preview days; there was no Recovery HD unfortunately.

[TheMalcolmx95]

Does Photoshop elements work in lion?

[HackTheTouch]

@TheMalcolmx95 Definitely!

[blacktim18]

THE SNIFFLING!! THE DAMN SNIFFLING!!! MY EARS!!!.......Jk jk, great video by the way....let me get back to my weed....*blast bob marley* "One looooove, one loooove"

[jorge4celmono]

yes screen flow is compatible with lion you dumbs

[Robbsaber02]

Great tutorial I subbed :) I am a high school student too. I am saving money for a Mac. Too bad they will have lion pre installed :( But I will watch this tutorial again in the future.

[Killerer]

I wish I never paid for Lion on the MacAppStore. Snow Leopard was much more responsive.

[carlosvgonzalez]

Mac OS X Lion is really the WORST MAC OS EVER!!!

[indoric]

in a few days i'll get a new mac with ofcourze Lion pre-installed on it... is there a quicker way to downgrade, since i will have no files or setting that I want to keep?

[MeAndNot3]

So i'm planning to buy another Macbook Pro. A lot of my software is only compatible with Snow Leopard... and I can't upgrade everything.

Downgrading to Snow Leopard- will it slow down my Mac in anyway?

[DjXtremeNation]

Ok… I went to partition the drive and disc utility said it failed. I said screw it and decided to just do a fresh install and lose everything. The SL was on the thumb drive and I went for it. It said it would not allow me to install. What now?

[mikeyabella]

how did you get your partitions to show up on your desktop? bcus i can't unmount my original partition

[calvarado15]

I just did an install without a partition. Can I go back with a backup from time machine?

[HackTheTouch]

@calvarado15 If it's a SL backup, then yes.

[mannepetterson]

Is it possible to downgrade from a pre-installed Lion Macbook Pro?

[HackTheTouch]

@mannepetterson I don't see why not!

[orphikx]

After doing the partition and moving files from another disk, will i have all my installed programs?

[HackTheTouch]

@orphikx Unfortunately, no. You will have to reinstall them manually.

[RobbieS222]

@HackTheTouch .....but isn't there an option to transfer applications?? i saw that in your video when sl asked how to transfer your files..??

[afmm007]

Taylor, after im done with erasing the partition i dont want, how do I make all that empty space usable for the new SL partition? PLEASE HELP heheh

[HackTheTouch]

@afmm007 Use Disk Utility to partition it by repeating the steps to make the first SL partition.

[kryogesh]

Thanks buddy.... I'm pissed off with Lion.... I may go back to SL, thanks for the post

[zezo1991]

hey Taylor I have this problem, i can't make a partition every time i try this message pops up " Partition failed with the error:

Couldn’t modify partition map because file system verification failed." 

[HackTheTouch]

@zezo1991 Try repairing the disk with Disk Utility.

[Tritonprince]

When you did your update after reinstalling SL, you checked the OS X 10.7 box. Isn't that Lion?

[MegaMash123]

what if i don't have the disk? since i downloaded it from the app store?

please help!! i need it for school! i need to downgrade!

[dante9359]

man my lion partition was in the top and snow leopard was in the bottom so i deleted the lion but i can't fill the space with snow leopard plz help 

[HackTheTouch]

@dante9359 You have to format that free space, and then reinstall SL onto it.

[dante9359]

@HackTheTouch and how do i do it ?

[arild47]

@dante9359

have you foound it out?

Im fucking desperate!!!

I need help!

[dante9359]

@arild47 yeah bro i did :D listen up what u need to do is u wanna make another partition and reinstall snow leopard on it and delete the 2nd partition then fill the whole box with the new partition trust me it might be a pain in the ass but it works

[arild47]

@dante9359

thanks bro, but i just reinstaleld the whole mac last night :p

thanks for the answer amyway ^^ :D

[dante9359]

@arild47 anytime brother

[dante9359]

@HackTheTouch i was just about to do that lol thinx !

[HackTheTouch]

@dante9359 Just repeat the steps you used to make the first Snow Leopard partition.

[arild47]

@HackTheTouch

hey there.

thanks for the upload, but i have the same problem as dante..

I got my lion partision on top of my snow leopard, and i dragegd and dropped everything i wanted and i have also deleted my lion partition. But i can't get free space. You said i need to repeat the steps but i wont work.

I opened disk utility and made another partition so i could innstall SL on it, but when holding down option key during bootup it wont show.

PLEASE help, my mac dont have a single mb left..

[MrMacFreek]

I can't believe how bad Lion is. It's great feature wise but nothing works on it compatibility wise.

[afmm007]

Bro All the folders I want to transfer have a red minus symbols.... so I can't move anything... :S Help

[societyscum]

thanks

[societyscum]

i installed snow leopard transfered all data from lion partition on snow leopard partition it asked password i reset it with install disk, but after that snow leopard won't boot just hold blue screen.

[HackTheTouch]

@societyscum Same thing happened to me. Unfortunately the only way I found to fix it is to delete the SL partition, recreate it, then reinstall SL.

[TheFrandiego]

You rule!

[eishenheim]

dude really really really really really really really really really really thank you that helped really

[areverga123]

maan you talk alot  of shit and less of what i want to hear........

[greendayfan991]

Will i use any data if i just put in the cd and install it without make an external hard drive? Cause i really hate lion and i don't wanna keep it.

[coolshariq]

all my pics gone  i took on lion's photo booth is gone now i went back to snow leopard! Anyone know how to recover pics from photo booth?

[PhoenixFhire]

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for.

[flamingice09]

I've installed a torrent, what do i do plz!

[cerpadesigns]

i cant resize the new partition can anybody help me?

[coolshariq]

All I m trying to do go back to snow leopard from lion, because lion sucks and mess my macbook pro, I don't have beta, its a offical lion from apple, I don't understand what's the partition mean and its term! All I wanna do its get rid of lion and install snow leopard! , I have the snow leopard disk! My mac wont even boot up right after installing lion, its just frezzes I m not happy! Plz help

[se7encrows]

Great video. Lion was clunking up my Mac. Followed your video and I'm I'm the middle of copying my files over to the SL partition. So far everything is going well. Thanks for the great video. This is saving me a huge headache!

[ProdingtonBear]

help i've encountered a problem, after installed snow leopard on the new partition i booted it and a login page pops up and asks for a password? i don't even have a password!!?

[HackTheTouch]

@ProdingtonBear Use your SL install disk, ad use the "Reset Password" utility.

[ProdingtonBear]

@HackTheTouch i dont have the sl install disk with me its all on my usb flash drive? and i cant actually access the snow leopard partition

[rezunalex]

it's just bad

[ProdingtonBear]

if i was to drag the whole 'library' folder from lion to snow leopard and overwrited the snow leopard one would that be a problem?

[eggybounce]

I get a black screen when I boot up my BHD. Any reasons?

[Technoreviews411]

@HackTheTouch They actualy didn't drop support for PPC until snow leopard. because i had a 2005 14 inch ibook with a PPC processor and it was running Leopard but when Snow Leopard came out i couldn't upgrade because i had a PPC processor. But for the people with Intel processor (I have the'10 macbook now) Who where running Snow Leopord who had PPC Programs the OS had a small program within it called roseta which allowed you to run PPC programs on an intel prosser. in lion they dropped roseta

[boyuchuadaniel]

@HackTheTouch actually, apple dropped powerpc support only in snow leopard. leopard works in the ibook g4 and any powerpc machine with a g4 processor.

[TheHaydster1]

@HackTheTouch Actually all of my programs that use PowerPC worked perfectly in Leopard. It wasn't until Lion came out and when i downloaded it that the programs that use PowerPC stopped working.

[TheHaydster1]

why did they drop powerpc? do they want people to buy Macs? This has got to be one of the stupidest things Apple has done, and all for what?

[DBoomkinFTW]

Thank you very much. I've been living in computing hell and like so many with such faith in Mac naively switched over without any backing up. This will help me get back to business as usual. =-)

[nkrasn11]

Would all my applications which were updated to work with lion work on snow leopard once I import them?

[nkrasn11]

@nkrasn11

Please? Anyone?

[TheTechJoint]

Lion isn't working for me, my XP bootcamp doesn't work anymore, I miss the old spaces, tons of applications are powerpc and don't work, FUCK YOU LION