John Rofrano
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I’ve been using my iPad and iPhone as a teleprompter a lot these days for making my classes on Coursera. Being able to see slides in reverse mode would be a cool feature for those times that I’m not using a script, but rather presenting something live so that I don’t have to look down from the camera to see what slide I’m on. I’ll definitely recommend this.
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You’re welcome. It’s interesting that the installer from Apple behaved differently. This is why I recommended you get it directly from Apple. What I have found is that Apple keeps updating their installers. I always save them on a separate hard drive in case I need them and I’ve found that sometimes the one I saved will stop working while downloading a new one will work. Maybe they updated the allowable graphics cards in the installer.
I have Mojave on my 2010 Mac Pro with a Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition graphics card and it seems to be fine performance wise, but some software did stop working. I use Final Cut Pro so it is optimized for macOS and runs better with Metal support. I actually have a Yosemite partition for running older 32-bit software.
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Glad you figured it out. Apple has been very selective in what they support. 🙁
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I would be suspicious of purchasing anything to install an Apple OS from Amazon. Why don’t you make your own USB stick so that you know what you are getting is an “official” release of macOS Mojave from Apple. There is no telling what is on that stick or how old the software is.
Here is Apple’s page for installing older versions of macOS:
How to create a bootable installer for macOS
Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you, but your next step might be to post on the official Apple forums and if you tell them you bought an USB stick with Mojave on Amazon, they are not going to support you.
If I remember correctly, the firmware on my 2010 Mac Pro needed to be updated before I could upgrade to Mojave. There were steps to update the firmware that needed to be followed before installing macOS. Maybe the 2012 Mac Pro doesn’t need this? But that is something to look into.
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I just came across this: OpenCore which is a boot loader that will trick macOS into thinking it is running on newer hardware and allows the 2010 Mac Pro to run Big Sur. Of course this isn’t supported by Apple and I wouldn’t recommend using it on a Mac that you running your business on but it looks interesting. I may play around with it when I get some time.
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Being in the same boat as you, I’m waiting for Apple to announce a 27″ iMac with the Apple M1 Silicon. The M1 chip is far more powerful than the current iMac Pro. I have a 2020 Mac mini which I picked up for $599 new and it blows away my 2018 MacBook Pro 6-core. I’m talking greater than 2x performance when rendering video (a previous 20 min render took about 8 mins!). I do all of my video editing on it now.
The Apple M1 Pro chip and Apple M1 Max chip they announced with the new MacBook Pro’s are insanely fast. As soon as they announce an iMac with those chips I’m dumping my 2010 Mac Pro 12-core to get one. The M1 is definitely something to look into. Personally, I wouldn’t buy an Apple with an Intel chip at this point.
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Hi Leonard, Unfortunate for us, Apple has cut off updates for the 2010 Mac Pro at Mojave. They claim that Catalina doesn’t support it. If you look at the Catalina Technical Specs on Apple’s web site it says Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer). 🙁 That leaves us 2010 Mac Pro users out of luck.
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Technology does get better… and when you update it regularly you would be informed of how it was changing and what to do to stay compatible. Unfortunately, jumping 6 versions and 7 years from Yosemite to Big Sur is quite a change. Apple has dropped support for Quicktime 7, all 32 bit applications, and all 32 bit codecs. I’m guessing those are some of the ones you are missing. (This is why I stopped at Mojave because this started with Catalina)
You can read about it here: About incompatible media in Final Cut Pro
That article has a list of video formats still supported, and the ones that are no longer supported. If you still have your Yosemite system you can probably still do the conversions they discuss. I’m pretty sure that you cannot convert them on the new system because the old codecs simply don’t exist for it.
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Not sure why this would have happened but you can control the startup chime if you like it or don’t like it.
Just open the Terminal.app and run this command:
sudo nvram StartupMute=%00
Then Reboot. You will hear that wonderful chime again.
You can turn if off with:
sudo nvram StartupMute=%01
Enjoy. 😉
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Apple has instructions on how to Archive Mail but that only creates a new mailbox and placed them into it. I assume you want to move the mail off of your hard drive. I would use the Export feature (right-click on each mailbox and select Export Mailbox…) to export them to another drive and then delete the mailboxes you have exported from your current drive. (this assumes you are using Apple mail)