Downgrade Yosemite Release to Mavericks [duplicate]
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/151498
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So I'm considering updating to Yosemite, but I have a 2011, low end MBP, and Im a bit afraid that its going to be slow. If I do upgrade, is there anyway that I can revert back to mavericks? I've seen a bunch of things online, but that was only for the developer previews, which rely on the Mavericks installer still being on the app store, which I don't think it is.
Thanks.
Solution
Your solutions are:
- Create a new partition, and install Yosemite on it. You can try it there, and if you like it, delete the Mavericks partition and increase the Yosemite one
- Make a Time Machine Backup. If you don't like Yosemite, just recover your old system
- You can use Carbon Copy Cloner to do a Backup as well.
I have a 2011 MacBook Air as well. Yosemite is as fast as Mavericks. The only problem is Handoff isn't working out of the box, which i fixed (see this post).
OTHER TIPS
Clone the drive to a completely separate device.
Setup Yosemite on one copy, keep the other to swap back if you don't like it.
Yosemite has been seen to change the drive structure from 'regular' GUID to Core Storage, giving people serious headaches trying to get back to the old setup.
Personally, I wouldn't touch Yosemite yet without this kind of fallback solution.
I know effectively in SE I'm in the doctor's waiting room complaining it's full of sick people - but there have been too many 'oopsies' in the past week for me to suggest anything less safe.
