![]() ![]() They're going to get a refund on Windows. One of the more well-known members of the Windows team explained their reasoning: if a new version of Windows breaks backwards compatibility because an app is doing something it shouldn't, the user can't get a refund on their old app that works in the old version. Microsoft can't do this kind of thing because they sell software, not hardware. It's not surprising - Apple have never, ever cared about backwards compatibility, and there's countless examples of important and useful applications throughout the history of Macs and iPhones falling by the wayside because Apple changed something and expected everyone to do a huge amount of work to keep up - but it still sucks. * reFX, makers of QuadraSid/Slayer/Vanguard, have told users of their old plugins to go whistle, while other plug-ins, including things like AAS Strum, were replaced by improved versions which are not preset-compatible and cannot import the previous versions' settings. Of course, all this will be repeated in a year or two's time when Apple make the move from x86-64 to ARM. I hope that they bring ones with less sucky keyboards out soon. Of course, given that I also write code for iOS/macOS, I'm going to have to move to Catalina at some point, which I'm guessing brings forward the next MacBook purchase. I've spent much of my tooling-about-in-Live time this year going through old sets, seeing what I can salvage, what can be mixed down to audio stems, what can be turned into a workable Drum Rack/Sampler instrument, what can be replicated (reFX Vanguard patches are very hard if not impossible to replicate with other synths), and come to the conclusion that, for the purposes of being able to access old projects, my existing MacBook stays on 10.14 (and, eventually, will join my MacOS Classic Titanium PowerBook and OSX/PPC PowerBook in the old-laptop cupboard). I have a decade's worth of Ableton Live projects, depending on a decade's worth of plugins, some of which will never be updated to 64-bit*. 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.For anyone using music software, this is a huge headache. 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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