How to revert to OS X Yosemite on OS X Mavericks

We have good news for users who have recently updated your Mac to OS X YosemiteAnd she, for whatever reasons, were not satisfied - you can easily revert to the Mavericks and to live the old life. OS X Yosemite a great system, but we will not persuade you and if you are determined to below, we'll show you how to roll with OS X Yosemite to the previous version.

For rollback, you will need a backup of Time Machine with your latest data on OS X Mavericks. This is a prerequisite for this process. If you have updated to OS X Yosemite, following our instructions, It must be you. This is very important, since the date of the last backup means which files and documents you receive when you restore. So be sure to manually copy to an external drive all the data that you have created in OS X Yosemite, then to be able to restore them manually.

How to revert to a previous version of OS X

Before you start the procedure, you need to create a backup of your current system to be able to restore it in case something goes wrong. Backups are very important, never neglect them!

1. Restart your Mac with OS X Yosemite, and during his turn hold the key ⌘R (Cmd + R). (You can hold ⌥ and then select your startup disk Recovery HD or if you have bootable flash drive from Yosemite - boot from it)
2. from the menu OS X Utilities select Recovering from a Time Machine backup
3. Attach the external drive containing Time Machine backups, and then click Proceed
4. On the selection screen, select the backup that you used for backups of OS X Mavericks and press Proceed
5. Next Section Date and time of backup Select the most recent backup that you made in the OS X Mavericks. Make sure that it is indeed version of OS X and click 10.9.h Proceed
6. Select the drive that will be restored (c Yosemite disk). This will erase all data from it, so make sure that you copied all the documents and files created since the last backup.
7. press RestoreTo start the rollback process

This method uses the possibility of recovery using Time Machine backups and allows you to restore your Mac to the state it was in prior to upgrading to OS X Yosemite. However, since the backups Time Machine - this is the hard disk images and all its contents, you'd better hurry to make a decision and roll away as early as possible to avoid further trouble with backup and recovery of your new files created already in OS X Yosemite.

The recovery process will take some time, depending on the size of the backup, the number of files, disk capacity and speed. At least, the procedure will last for a few hours, so it makes sense to leave the Mac for the night, or even for the whole day. Do not interrupt the recovery process, otherwise you have to start it again.

When the restoration is complete, the loaded OS X Mavericks and you move in time, away from the inconvenient to you OS X Yosemite.

In any case, you will always be able to once again upgrade to OS X Yosemite through the Mac App Store, with bootable USB drive or generally "clean".

Tell us in the comments what you did not work for OS X Yosemite and why did you decide to revert back to the Mavericks.

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