Downgrading from 10.7 ( it's different )

[paranoia101]

Wow, you're right! THanks for letting me know. Can't update yet, still at school. It blocks the update somehow. My build is build 11A390, way back from yours. Will update and try again. Oh and by the way, the huge thing taking up 100GB was my trash. Hadn't emptied it for quite a while. Silly me! It was all cos of Grand Perspective that I found the source of space gobbling! Thanks all

If you didn't know this, you clearly shouldn't be using computers at all. Never mind messing around with a Dev Preview of one.

WEll that was unnecessarily harsh. Unlike some people, I don't refresh the update page every 1 minute. I check for updates every two weeks, so bear with me. -_-

 

[Synaesthesia242]

You can also torrent the updates.

 

[Mal]

You can also torrent the updates.

Not legally. We don't discuss that sort of thing on the forum, as it's against the Forum Rules.

jW

 

[paranoia101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Synaesthesia242
You can also torrent the updates.
Not legally. We don't discuss that sort of thing on the forum, as it's against the Forum Rules.

jW

Oh, thats ok. Thanks for the notice though, but I doubt that I would. There doesnt seem to be any available updates for it. So I think I'll just be downgrading. Just to recap, transfer the user folder, applications and everything else except system rite? If i make it a hybrid, it'll just screw everything up, right?

 

[Synaesthesia242]

Right. Actually, don't move over /Applications, beacause many built in applications won't work with earlier versions of OS X.

I would just move all your documents in yer home folder.

 

[dchao]

WEll that was unnecessarily harsh. Unlike some people, I don't refresh the update page every 1 minute. I check for updates every two weeks, so bear with me. -_-

Developer Preview 2 and 3 are delivered via App Store, not the normal "software update". People got the updates in a special coupon code from the Apple Custom Seeding Program, and they have to sign an NDA for each one, and then redeem the code from App Store.

If someone's trying to distribute one of these updates on the Internet with AppleSeed ID and password, and gets found out by Apple, Apple could revoke his/her developer status.

As of today, the latest build is 11A459e, and your build of 11A390 of course will be much more buggy than the latest build.

 

[paranoia101]

Synaesthesia242 Right. Actually, don't move over /Applications, beacause many built in applications won't work with earlier versions of OS X.

I would just move all your documents in yer home folder.

I know that, but I have some huge-ass apps and I'm not quite in the mood of reinstalling all of them. ill just wing it and see what happens. If anything goes wrong, I might as well just delete it.

Developer Preview 2 and 3 are delivered via App Store, not the normal "software update". People got the updates in a special coupon code from the Apple Custom Seeding Program, and they have to sign an NDA for each one, and then redeem the code from App Store.

If someone distributes these updates on the Internet with AppleSeed ID and password, and gets found out by Apple, Apple could revoke his/her developer status.

As of today, the latest build is 11A459e, and your build of 11A390 of course will be much more buggy than the latest build.

O.O .. ok? I gather that I should just downgrade and avoid all the hassle that you mentioned?

 

[dchao]

I know that, but I have some huge-ass apps and I'm not quite in the mood of reinstalling all of them. ill just wing it and see what happens. If anything goes wrong, I might as well just delete it.

O.O .. ok? I gather that I should just downgrade and avoid all the hassle that you mentioned?

Just downgrade to avoid future problems. If you have some applications that too complicated to re-install or lost the install CD, just copy the them from the Application folder back to the SnowLeo HD, it should be ok most of the time.

 

[paranoia101]

Just downgrade to avoid future problems. If you have some applications that too complicated to re-install or lost the install CD, just copy the them from the Application folder back to the SnowLeo HD, it should be ok most of the time.

Ok, with that, I can gather that the general consensus is just to downgrade. But being my stubborn self, I'm just gonna stick with it and see what happens. Thnx for eveeythin

 

[jackhdev]

Downgrading will hurt you

Just a note, I tried downgrading from Lion to Snow Leopard and everything got messed up. Final Cut Studio and Aperture wouldn't open because they are tied to the frameworks in Lion, which are missing in Snow Leopard. Additionally, plugins for Safari wouldn't work, and there were a few more issues.

 

[paranoia101]

Is that so? I didn't know that. Well, if it's only those two things and a few safari plugins, I guess it won't be much of a problem right?