I’d stick with El Capitan on both Macs and swap the hard drive for an SSD, it’ll cure all the speed issues. In terms of software, you’re better off sticking with modern software which is more secure, vulnerabilities in 10.6.8, 10.7.5, 10.8.5 and 10.9.5 are likely to be left unpatched.
Yes the Photos app is terrible when compared to iPhoto, but I’d imagine with Sierra on its way it’ll be improved. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 31 Jul 2016, at 12:31, j.sagues <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > A few months ago I upgraded my 2010 MacBook (which had successfully gone from > 10.5 via 10.6, 10.9 and 10.10 to 10.11) and my wife's 2008 iMac from 10.6 > directly to 10.11. After many weeks of frustration, slow speed, frequent > beach ball activity, we would like to abandon El Capitan. I have a clone of > the MacBook 10.10 to which I shall revert. I thought I could use the iMac > 10.6 clone to return to 10.9 (in addition to speed problems my wife much > prefers iPhoto to Photo) using a copy of my 10.9 Installer download backup > but it is rejected by Apple as being unverifiable with a suggestion that I > re-download the installer from her App Store account. It is listed as > available but will not download. I tried 10.10 instead (I know it doesn't > help the iPhoto problem) with sometime "available from your other account" > (we have never had another account), sometime "App Store" error. I even > re-installed a clean 10.6 (the only installer CD I have) on a spare external > disk with no better result when trying to download the installers. Any ideas > please? > > I have had numerous problems in my near 40 years of Mac ownership but none so > infuriating! > > Regards > > John > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
