Questions & Answers for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

You must buy the snow leopard install disc then install it, you should keep your files. Go to software update and update to the latest version (10.6.8). Reboot and go to Mac App Store and purchase Lion ($29.99). Mount the .dmg and click on the Install Mac OSX Lion.app, then install and reboot. Use software update once again to update to 10.7.4

• Answered by Cameron K from Rossmoyne
• Jul 19, 2012
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All you need to do is go to the Apple icon in the upper lefthand corner of your computer screen, it will open a menu and the first option says about this mac. It will open a screen and have scrolling text. The very first line will show you which operating system you have.

10.5 - Leopard
10.6 - Snow Leopard
10.7 - Lion
10.8 - Mountain Lion

• Answered by Alex H from Boise
• Dec 28, 2012
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The easiest way to achieve this is to add a partition your hard drive to take Snow Leopard. You can do this with Disk Utility, assuming you have enough free space to do so. Allow about 10Gb for a basic Snow Leopard installation, and then add whatever Pro Tools needs and use the result as a minimum partition size.

This is non-destructive—you can add the partition without any need to format the drive—so you can do it on your main drive without losing data. It may take a long time to accomplish depending on how much free space there is on the drive. It would be wise to ensure you have a current backup before proceeding.

You can find detailed instructions for adding partitions in OSX elsewhere on the web.

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• Answered by Guy H
• Dec 10, 2012
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Yes you must upgrade to Snow Leopard first.

• Answered by Joshua F from Bowling Green
• Dec 13, 2012
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If your MacBook Pro is Intel-based, here is what you can do.

1) Create a blank new partition for Snow Leopard. Perhaps borrow an external hard drive and clone all files from the internal partition with Tiger to the external HD, making sure you can start up Tiger from the external HD if needed. Then you can install Snow Leopard to the internal HD.

2) All Snow Leopard DVDs (including those advertised as upgrades) can do a Clean Install. Follow these instructions:
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(replace each "DOT" with ".")

3) Sometime during the install, the installer will ask if you want to import your OS Settings, Applications and/or Files from the partition with Tiger on it. Do this.

4) Once you restart in Snow Leopard, do a software update to bring Snow Leopard up to the latest version.

5) After Step 3, all your applications and iTunes music, etc will be ready to use in Snow Leopard.

I followed these steps when moving from Tiger to Snow Leopard using the $29 install disk. Other than some printer drivers, a scanner utility and a minor issue with MS Word 2004... everything worked immediately. I had to find my own driver updates for some really oddball, obscure printers I have.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Apr 17, 2011
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I went to the apple store the other day with the same question - if you show them a proof of purchase for snow leopard, they can update your computer through a USB instead of using the CD.

• Answered by Bethany D from Somerville
• Dec 21, 2012
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Unfortunately, no.

Beginning with OS 10.6, the PowerPC processor is not supported.
An Intel processor must be used.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Nov 29, 2012
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yep

• Answered by Michael L from North Richland Hills
• Jan 23, 2013
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