"upgrading your operating system may cause serious problems"

I have a mac book pro 15 2019. we I want to upgrade the macos, I got a prompt like this

I even can not find any topic about this in the internet. anyone can help me ?

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Jan 10, 2020 10:09 AM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2020 10:41 AM

Is that your Mac or a company one?

I don't recognise the graphic so you may have a third party security app running

but the answer is simple.

Catalina will not run any old 32bit apps like Office 2011, older versions of Photoshop and many more.

Install a free app called Go64 which will list all your 32bit apps.


https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/index.html


and if you do have any third party antivirus, security or cleaner apps Catalina will hate them too. If it is your own mac clean them out anyway.

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Jan 10, 2020 10:41 AM in response to zingerxm

Is that your Mac or a company one?

I don't recognise the graphic so you may have a third party security app running

but the answer is simple.

Catalina will not run any old 32bit apps like Office 2011, older versions of Photoshop and many more.

Install a free app called Go64 which will list all your 32bit apps.


https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/index.html


and if you do have any third party antivirus, security or cleaner apps Catalina will hate them too. If it is your own mac clean them out anyway.

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