[Hidden-tech] Hidden-discuss Digest, Vol 117, Issue 3

[Dan Richardson (t)]

There is one way that you can be certain of being able to revert to your 
old OS, and that's to install the new OS on a separate hard drive. It 
can even be a modestly-sized external portable drive. In fact, you can 
have several OSes installed, and boot into whichever one runs the 
particular app you need, if there's some old incompatible app that you 
absolutely can't do without. You want each OS on its own drive, so that 
prefs files don't intertwingle. I've always separated my OS and data 
drives for exactly that reason.

Dan

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:17:02 -0400
> From: Stacy Kontrabecki <swampdancer at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] OS X 10.9.4 software compatibility
>
> I have OS X 10.9.4 installed to my Mac. I'm trying to figure out if my
> software will work if I update to OSX 10.6.8, but looking up each
> application tells me the minimum OS requirements, but no means of
> knowing if the applications are bug-free when operating on the new OS.
>
> Googling is wasting my time as I am not arriving at answers. Is there a
> single place to go to find these answers?
>
> I'm using:
>
> MS Office Mac 2011
> Quickbooks Mac 2010
> Quicken Essentials Mac
> Adobe CS5
> Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
> Thunderbird 24.6.0
> mSecure 3.5.3
>
> Also have some others, but don't really need/use them like I do these.
>
> Thank-you.
>