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Catalina
Before you shift to Catalina in a few months, double-check your 32-bit application status.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208436
You’ll actually find that quite a lot of apps are still 32-bit and these may quit working after you update. I ran a check and many of the uninstaller apps supplied by software developers are still 32-bit. Older versions of Office apps. The player utilities supplied by AJA. Just a few examples.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I’ve been using a nice little free app to check on my 32-bit apps:
https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/ -
https://www.cultofmac.com/642660/incompatible-apps-catalina/
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Will try Go64 app.
BTW, Stclairsoft.com makes a great little utility–Default Folder X—that is very helpful for editors who have to save items to folders located all over the place. I’ve got it on all my computers.
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Big loses for me will be MS Office program (2011 version), which I only use occasionally, but have a lot of old documents. I guess I will have to see how much I can use the simple mac apps of numbers, pages and keynote, sign up for the new MS Office or wait until I really need Catalina.
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[Claude Lyneis] “Big loses for me will be MS Office program (2011 version)”
You could buy the Office Home & Business 2019 version. It’s a non-subscription version and is 64-bit.
https://products.office.com/en-us/buy/compare-microsoft-office-products-for-mac
Of course, Pages/Numbers/Keynote do a decent job of opening and writing some Word/Excel/PowerPoint docs, depending on format and complexity.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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