Sad truth about iOS apps

Graham Samuel livfoss at mac.com
Sun May 17 03:31:53 EDT 2020


There is a consistent tale (more than a rumour, I think) that Catalina can mess up some people's mail messages, if you use Apple Mail. Did that affect you? It’s the thing about Catalina that scares me most - after all, we’ve had lots of warning about 32 bit apps.

Graham

> On 17 May 2020, at 00:01, kee nethery via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Replaced or just deleted any 32 bit apps I had. Opened files in 32 bit apps and converted them into something else, typically Text or PDF. Lots of files I printed to PDF and stored the PDF versions. 
> 
> Bought some software to open MacDraw files and save them as PDF.
> 
> I had some WriteNow files that I had to move to a really old laptop, print to PDF, and then move back. 
> 
> All in all, I’m pretty sure that every file I now have can be viewed under Catalina. And thus, I have migrated to Catalina. It took a bunch of time, but hey, have lots of time right now.
> 
> Kee
> 
>> On May 16, 2020, at 6:40 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> For those who upgrade to Catalina, remember you will lose any 32 bit apps
>> as Apple has forced everyone to move to 64 bit apps.
>> 
>> Good luck!
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>>> On May 16, 2020, at 5:42 AM, Erik Beugelaar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Update: You can direclty upgrade from High Sierra to Catalina using the macOS Catalina Patcher.
>>> Be sure that High Sierra is up-to-date and using APFS (new Apple File System) instead of HFS+.
>> 
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