Convert back to 10.1.5

**Dekatophil** · September 1st, 2002, 01:02 AM

Is there a way to convert back to 10.1.5 (from 10.2) other than a clean install ?
10.2 is so buggy for me that I cannot really work with it. Mail crashes way too often. After initial success Word crashes everytime at startup. So does AW now, although the first couple of launches were okay. Java apps take minutes to start (lkie Encyclopedia Britannica). I tried to export a video with QT 6 (the result being that it crashed somewhere in the middle) etc...
Besides a somewhat faster Finder and a funny app called iChat Jaguar hasn't really given me anything but bugs...

I need a system I can work with... so, any easy way to convert back ? (Probably not).

**pianophile** · September 1st, 2002, 01:09 PM

Sadly, a clean install is your only option. I had to do the same, as audio is so completely broken under 10.2 that it makes the less-than-perfect 10.1.5 audio seem ideal in comparison.

Very depressing.

**Shibby** · September 1st, 2002, 01:44 PM

i am curently running a build of 10.2.1 and the mail problems and the sound problems under 10.2 seem to be fixed hang in there it should be released soon.

**fryke** · September 1st, 2002, 02:32 PM

i'd also try to reinstall 10.2 first, since i haven't seen your sort of problems on several machines. word doing fine. appleworks doing fine. maybe it's just something in your preferences. maybe the upgrading process wasn't what it was promised to be... i'd try a clean 10.2 install first. or, as the post before mine suggests, wait for 10.2.1. The later builds are very stable already, the final one will be perfect.

**Dekatophil** · September 2nd, 2002, 01:39 AM

Well, I feel pretty confident that the preferences are okay. Probably something during the upgrade process went wrong. Indeed, I had already done an install over the original one. That had helped a little... The overall behaviour is strange however. It seems to be kernel related... Entourage works fine, Word doesn't. PP hoses the system at launch and then hangs. Interestingly, boot is fast but log-in takes about 2 minutes.
Oh well. I hope an upgrade comes soon and fixes things... if not I'll have to do a clean install.
Thanks for your input !

**solrac** · September 2nd, 2002, 10:03 AM

How is sound broken in 10.2? I installed it and everything's fine. Nothing crashes.

**vanguard** · September 2nd, 2002, 10:39 AM

I've had sound problems too. For me, the symptom is that the machine simply goes quiet. It's usually after a few days uptime and a few different sound producing apps (iTunes and RealPlayer). Then, no sound. Nothing. I tried closing apps, killing processes, adjusting the volume,whatever. Nothing works.

I'm not sure if that's the same problem that other people are having.