![]() A lot of developers figure there is better things to do with their money as, believe it or not, people will still buy a 32bit OSX version. It takes development hours and people to make the conversion happen. There’s no happy iWizard with candy coated buttons from Apple which automagically converts your favorite app over to 64bit. There’s a horrible misnomer surrounding how easy it is to covert an app over. There are a lot of apps that aren’t 64 bit and probably never will end up being ported to 64 bit on OSX, including beloved Apple apps. Who cares if Autodesk is on the top of your list on your machine. Hint - it starts with Auto and ends with desk. It’s just that 10.6 makes all the included apps 64-bit and sorts out Cocoa 64-bit, which some vendors rely on. Like I mentioned before, there is nothing stopping you from running 64-bit apps on OS X 10.5. Maxwell, Houdini, Cinema 4D, VRay for C4D have been 64-bit for as long as a two years. I’d suggest waiting till you have a fair bit of free time before upgrading to Catalina, and after you upgrade give all your Apps a test to make sure they still work.“Macs” have nothing to do with it - it’s software vendors who are slow to get their 64-bit software out that are the problem. iDVD, Bento, Quicktime Player 7 Pro, CSSEdit.) For some applications that just means forking out some money but there are other discontinued applications that there is no alternative for Catalina. The bottom line is when you install Catalina a lot of your existing apps may stop working and you may need to buy new ones or upgrade them. The Fujitsu scanner drivers that work in Catalina do not work with older Fujitsu scanners so now my $800 scanner is rendered useless even though it was working perfectly. I have a Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 scanner that I used to import all my documents into Devon think pro. So Catalina killed those two apps even though the apps them selves are 64 bit. There is no way to enter a valid serial number under Catalina. I just upgraded my laptop and both Sebelius and Dragon asked me to re-verify my serial number. That means Dragon and Sibelius will continue to run as long as you keep the same computer. The Serial number validators don’t run in Catalina. These still worked on OS X Catalina until I purchased a new laptop. These products now only come as a subscription so I purchased Affinity Designer to replace them. Requires $150 to upgrade to the newer version. ![]() The newer versions of quicktime do not have a pro version. ![]() I had the pro version which allowed me to do some nice video editing and compression. It’s the only program thatI know of that can interface directly with Apple address book and export your contacts into a CSV file. I used it a lot to edit my Apple Address book contacts. Here are just some of the apps that stopped working wth my upgrade to Catalina: But I was not prepared for how many applications would stop working! ![]() So I knew that Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and some other apps would stop working when I upgraded to Catalina. Mojave) would have given you a warning about 32 bit applications that you are running. Before you upgrade to OS X Catalina you may need to stop and assess the applications that will stop working. ![]()
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