I am running Mavericks 10.9 on my imac.
It does not have the same ability of
slideshows with music in Garageband
as I had in Snow Leopard 10.6.
Is there any way I can return to Snow Leopard?
MacOS – Running Mavericks. Need to return to Snow Leopard
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Unfortunately, the disks that come with a Mac are Mac-specfic. They have special drivers for the machine they came with, and usually don't include drivers for other machines. The serial number he's providing you with should still work with no issues, but the disks themselves will probably not work. I would suggest getting the Snow Leopard Server disks from another source and using the serial number you're buying.
As for installing Server on top of the existing OS, this shouldn't be an issue. I would still recommend having a backup, but it shouldn't erase any data.
Good luck!
If you have registered for the paid iOS developer program, you should be able to see Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard available in the iOS Dev Center.
Here's what I see from a paid account:
Here's what I see from a non-paid account (there's no Xcode 4.x for Snow Leopard):
This also explains why Xcode is a paid download in the Snow Leopard App Store, but is free in the Lion App Store.
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First I backed everything up on time machine, and I made a manual backup of photos, music, downloads, and documents to another HDD.
Next I put in the install disk from OSX Leopard 10.5.. Mavericks will let you enter the install process right from the desktop on Leopard 10.5, but nothing past 10.5. (If you don't have leopard you can probably get one off ebay, or find it on the internet somewhere.
The computer will restart into installation mode from which I erased the HDD. Then I installed 10.5 Leopard.
After the Leopard install you can upgrade to any version you want to. I used snow leopard because it only uses 1 gig of RAM.
My computer runs much faster again, like when I bought it. Sure there are some apps that don't work, but I have everything I need here.