Comments on: Downgrading from Leopard

By: Sebastian Lanzi

Sebastian Lanzi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:29:40 +0000

Thank U Maria very much. thanks for your time. was very hellpfull and solve my ical problem.

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:17:26 +0000

Catherine: If there is a file, it should be in your Library or Preferences folder (inside your Home folder).

I highly recommend printing out all registration info for software you download. I keep a 3-ring binder of this stuff with registration info listed in alphabetical order. I know it sounds a bit extreme, but I haven’t lost a registration code in years.

If you can’t find the missing file(s), I recommend contacting the folks who make the software. They should have your registration information on file if you bought it via download.

Good luck.

By: catherine

catherine — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:54:21 +0000

hi – with aperture, it was a downloaded purchase, from apple. and the email acct. that was associated with it is long-since gone (this was all in 2006), so it’s not possible for me to dig back through emails to find whatever registration information they’d sent me at that time, unfortunately.

the same is true of parallels.

isn’t there a file somewhere, on my backed up leopard system, that contains this information and could just be moved from the leopard partition to the tiger partition?

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:02:40 +0000

To get the registration information, just pull out your original program discs and registration info. Re-enter it from there.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:06:57 +0000

Hi again,

So, I’ve downgraded, mostly successfully, but I think it’s still a work in progress because I have a few applications, like “Parallels”, that have lost their license information and I can’t seem to find where that sort of information was stored, in Leopard. I have a full (cloned) backup of the Leopard system, just before the downgrade, so I would think they license information for Parallels would be stored in the cloned drive, but, where?

Essentially, I’m at the point where I’ve downgraded, I have a stable machine, and now I need to pull back things like license information, etc. Where do I go from here?

thanks for your help.

catherine

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:04:33 +0000

Oh yah, my mac and me seem to get along for years now, but me and Kernel, not that much…

The Kernel keeps appearing as I try to start up from the Tiger DVD – when I do it your way, or the way you do it when you upgrade the system.

uhm, this beats me – kernel – my biggest fear! There aint a button you can press when it comes – you just have to shut down..

Hope you have time for me!! Thanks!

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:53:34 +0000

Timo: The applications should still be there and they should still work. You can either copy over the preferences or recreate them when you start the application back on Tiger.

bberg: I don’t know why iCal missed events I did a sync to .Mac before and another sync from .Mac after and I didn’t lose a thing.

Catherine: Yes, you will have to recreate the user accounts. And I don’t think Tiger versions are machine specific UNLESS your computer came with Tiger. Then you should use the disc that came with your computer to install Tiger.

By: catherine

catherine — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:12:53 +0000

hi,

so, i have a few questions for you:

1.) will i need to recreate the user accounts on my machine?

2.) what version of tiger should i look for (i no longer have the install disks, they’re buried in storage somewhere) – is it machine specific?

By: bberg

bberg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:19:31 +0000

hi. i’ve synced ical 3 to my .mac account from leopard. when syncing back to ical 2 on tiger, it missed lots of events. guess i should have exported ical3 db manually and then imported it back on ical2.

By: Timo

Timo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:26 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the great guide, one thing still bothers me… do I have to re-install all other software as well after the downgrade? Or can I continue using them immediately after the downgrade (assuming they work in Tiger)

By: Maria Langer

Maria Langer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:26:01 +0000

I’m just suggesting a downgrade for the folks running older Macs that just don’t seem to run Leopard very well. In my case it was a G4 PowerBook. I was an idiot to upgrade it in the first place. I think Leopard is a fine OS for current computer models and I don’t suggest downgrading from the software that came installed on your computer. Hope this helps.

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:53:59 +0000

How do you downgrade Leopard to tiger as you said do it with CD but my MacBookPro with Leopard doesnt boot from tiger 10.4 ????????

By: Adam Orfgen

Adam Orfgen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:10:41 +0000

For applications that remain after the install but won’t open since they are Leopard only (like iCal). Put in the Tiger install disc and click on “Optional Installs” follow the steps till you get the list of optional installs. Click on the triangle next to applications for the whole list.

This fixed my iCal problem when I downgraded from Leopard. Hope that helps.

By: Derek Heimlich

Derek Heimlich — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:08 +0000

Thanks for the info, I need to do this now! I use Logic 7 (academic version) and when I upgraded to Leopard I realized that the academic version of Logic wouldn’t allow me to update, or upgrade so it wouldn’t open at all!

Besides, on my G4 powerbook everything was slower as well.

Thanks for the help.

By: UN-STABLE

UN-STABLE — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:16 +0000

This was excellent. Protools would not run on Leopard and this rundown made it easy to downgrade and do the proper installations to record using Portools 7.4 LE…THANKS A MILL!!!