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In a real mess: Lion/Snow Leopard
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<blockquote data-quote="Darker Times" data-source="post: 1434019" data-attributes="member: 25392"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I just thought I would provide an update to my situation, in case it helps anyone else.</p><p></p><p>After I had clean installed Lion and started to suffer worse problems, I shut down the iMac and left it for a couple of hours. On restarting, the iMac was back to normal and was/is much snappier performance wise. I now put this down to overheating, something I had read a few threads about with Lion/iMacs, but had never suffered with (or so I thought).</p><p></p><p>Also, while leaving my iMac for a couple of hours, I powered up my MacMini which is running Snow Leopard. In S/L I was able to go into Time Machine and retrieve photos & music that were in my Lion backup! <u>So, it's my experience that when you downgrade from Lion to S/L, your music & photos can be retrieve from a Lion TIme Machine backup - no problem.</u> This was one of my main worries and was, in the end, groundless.</p><p></p><p>After nearly a week of the iMac running great with Lion reinstalled, I decided to use FaceTime last night, in a one hour conversation with a friend. After ten minutes, a white flickering line appeared through the video window across my friend's face. After another ten minutes or so, the same happened to my image in the bottom corner, which my friend noticed at his end. Then both images froze, and the app crashed. Numerous restarts only caused the manic graphics problems that I originally suffered with. </p><p></p><p>So, the conclusion is that FaceTime is the app to avoid in order to keep my iMac from going crazy. The iMac was hot to the touch when FaceTime running, so it obviously puts too much pressure on resources. We are going to try ooVoo tonight to see if that causes the same issues.</p><p></p><p>Philip</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darker Times, post: 1434019, member: 25392"] Hi I just thought I would provide an update to my situation, in case it helps anyone else. After I had clean installed Lion and started to suffer worse problems, I shut down the iMac and left it for a couple of hours. On restarting, the iMac was back to normal and was/is much snappier performance wise. I now put this down to overheating, something I had read a few threads about with Lion/iMacs, but had never suffered with (or so I thought). Also, while leaving my iMac for a couple of hours, I powered up my MacMini which is running Snow Leopard. In S/L I was able to go into Time Machine and retrieve photos & music that were in my Lion backup! [U]So, it's my experience that when you downgrade from Lion to S/L, your music & photos can be retrieve from a Lion TIme Machine backup - no problem.[/U] This was one of my main worries and was, in the end, groundless. After nearly a week of the iMac running great with Lion reinstalled, I decided to use FaceTime last night, in a one hour conversation with a friend. After ten minutes, a white flickering line appeared through the video window across my friend's face. After another ten minutes or so, the same happened to my image in the bottom corner, which my friend noticed at his end. Then both images froze, and the app crashed. Numerous restarts only caused the manic graphics problems that I originally suffered with. So, the conclusion is that FaceTime is the app to avoid in order to keep my iMac from going crazy. The iMac was hot to the touch when FaceTime running, so it obviously puts too much pressure on resources. We are going to try ooVoo tonight to see if that causes the same issues. Philip [/QUOTE]
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