mhnapple wrote:
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Hope this helps
There are many fallacies in your post that may result in a dangerous situation for anyone following your advice. These risk must be pointed out:
Jeremy Johnstone's research has debunked the myth that the installer of FCP 6 is PowerPC. Apple installed a routine into OS X Lion and thereafter that made it look like the installer was PowerPC and hence triggered the PPC Dialog box.
If you know anything about how Rosetta works, it is clear that it cannot work in Lion and thereafter. Furthermore, if it worked for a "PPC program" such as the installer of FCP 6, why does it not work for any other PowerPC app since the release of Lion in 2011?
The fact that it worked for you only supports the theory that the installation of Rosetta sidetracks the Apple installed "routine" that stops FCP 6 from installing, but with great danger:
1) There have been reports that the installation of Rosetta into early versions of Lion caused a corruption in Lion that laid dormant until later versions of Lion were released. Once this corruption became active these reports indicated unexplained hard drive crashes and kernel panics rendering these Mac unusable without a complete wipe and reinstallation of software.
2) Has Apple fixed this Rosetta-caused corruption problem in Mavericks? Why would Apple go to the bother to make the installation of FCP 6 ineffective in Lion and thereafter, only to later fix the Rosetta corruption problem in Mavericks? Why not just allow FCP 6 installer to just work again?
3) It is virtually impossible to uninstall Rosetta once it has been installed into OS X Lion and thereafter. Have you uninstalled it?
So, you are advising people to install a Trojan Horse into their Mac which could potentially result in severe problems months, even years later!
Following this course appears foolish given the 3 other installation methods, especially the one described earlier by Hawaiian Hippie, which completely disproves that the installation program for FCP 6 is PowerPC based!
One follows your advice at their own risk!