[Hidden-tech] Mac OS question

[Annamarie Pluhar]

HI,

I’m quite happy having switched over to the Affinity apps from Adobe. 
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/. Much less expensive..  
Don’t know about Final Cut but works perfectly with my INDesign files.

Annamarie

On 8 Nov 2019, at 19:47, Erik Jonsberg via Hidden-discuss wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Apple is phasing out support for 32 bit applications. Adobe has 
> dropped support for all CS4 apps. MacOS is now at version 10.15 
> (Catalina). CS4 apps were designed to run on versions 10.5.8 or 10.6.
>
> You could try rolling back your OS. Hopefully you made a full backup 
> on Time Machine before you did the upgrade. If not, you might be out 
> of luck. As of High Sierra, MacOS uses a new case sensitive file 
> system called APFS. So you can’t just reinstall an older OS because 
> your hard drive has been reformatted to APFS.
>
> - Erik
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>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Mirin via Hidden-discuss 
>> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
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>> Dear Hidden-Techers,
>> After updating to the mojave OS, I have been unable to use certain 
>> software (notably indesign and final cut pro). I am considering 
>> "downgrading" to a previous operating system so that I can continue 
>> to use these programs without re-buying them or starting a monthly 
>> subscription. Does anyone have experience with this or have a 
>> recommendation for which OS to revert back to? Other workarounds? Our 
>> version of indesign is CS4 (2009) and works fine for our needs.
>> thanks, Jon
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