Mac OS X 10.6.3.dmg - created from the retail installer in the previous step “ Creating the Snow Leopard Disk Image'). Mount the base source image by doubleclicking it (e.g.Note: everything in this section is done on the host/working 10.6.8 computer. Specify a destination (on your host or available external drive) and click save.Find the menu selection that is something like 'Disk Image from.'.

Select the Snow Leopard install disk from the offerings in the left side of the window.Open Disk Utility (in the Applications/Utility folder).Insert your Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (or 10.6.0) install disk in an optical drive of your 10.6.8 host/working Mac.Of course, if you're savvy, you can also dupe your entire Lion install to some other hard drive using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. At a minimum you should use Apple's instructions for creating a Lion Recovery disk and make a bootable Lion recovery thumb drive!

System Image Utility 10.6.8 (free download from Apple Support Downloads - is part of Server Admin Tools) and install it on your host/working 10.6.8 computer (if your host computer is at 10.6.7, try Server Admin Tools 10.6.7 )ġ.3 Back up Lion If you don't back up Lion in some way now, you won't be able to get it back later.

Snow Leopard 10.6.8 Combo Updater v 1.1 disk image file (free download from Apple Support Downloads).

see this Apple Discussion forum for updates for now if you don't have a Firewire cable.

A Firewire 400->400 or 400->800 or 800-> cable (although I'm thinking if you've got an external/thumb drive that's big enough, you might be able to do this without the Firewire cable but it'll add a number of steps not yet posted.

Snow Leopard retail installation disc (e.g.

Your target computer: the one you're going to downgrade from Lion.

A host computer, running Mac OS X 10.6.8.

Install Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on new MacBook Pro or Mac Pro

Data recovery mac 10.6.8 for mac