I have assiduously kept my distance from Catalina because I don't consider it ready for prime time. If its response to the accidental invocation of 32 bit apps is to crash rather than to show a dialog box, that only further justifies my decision.
That having been said, the customer made an economic decision. He cannot replicate the crash on demand, so it's indeterminate for me to be able to certify that any given problem I fix removes the cause of it. We have already been through this route once, when I removed a tenacious piece of spyware from his machine that showed up in every one of his crash logs, thinking it was the cause of the problem, and after I had left, it wasn't. So the client has told me he wants to revert to Mojave, and that's what he tasked me to do. Yeah, I see that I typed iPhoto. In fact I personally still use iPhoto on my High Sierra machine, because when Photos was released, it didn't have anything near the functionality of iPhoto. It's probably time for me to try it again and see if Photos has grown up sufficiently. > On Dec 23, 2019, at 12:06 AM, Scot Hacker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > the big three of which are Mail, iPhoto, and iTunes. > > As you know, iTunes was converted over to the new Music app. I know that they > ditched the .xml companion format for the music library (frustrating DJs > everywhere). However, I see that in Catalina, there's a new ~/Music/Music > folder where the new library format lives, alongside the old ~/Music/iTunes. > The old iTunes library files appear not to have been touched. > > Don't know about Photos and Mail (wait, iPhoto? That was eons ago...). > Photos did receive a lot of upgrades but the first launch was quick so it > didn't seem like the library was being converted. > > Isn't most likely that your client's crashes are being caused because they > still have some old 32-bit software installed? Mightn't it be cleaner to > search-and-destroy the old software than to take this drastic step backwards? > > ./s > > >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 1:21 PM Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a client who, bullied by the incessant nag messages from Apple to >> upgrade his iMac to Catalina, did so. Now he is experiencing random crashes >> and wants to downgrade back to Mojave. Of course, he has no backup history. >> >> I can save his current system off via Time Machine or clone, and then >> reinitialize his iMac to Mojave, though I realize I run the risk of file >> migration refusing to migrate in that direction. If that occurs, the best I >> will be able to do is a whole-blood transfusion of his home folder, which at >> best may leave a few facilities ajar. >> >> It will be worse if Catalina made major format changes to any of the >> centralized user data catalogs, the big three of which are Mail, iPhoto, and >> iTunes. >> >> Can someone who has installed Catalina tell me if any of those three apps >> issued a "please wait while I reformat your database" message when they >> upgraded? >> >> -- >> Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support >> in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. >> http://macsrwe.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > > -- > > d(-_-)b
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