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Pages and High Sierra on a 2011 iMac 27”.

crayz times, oem 500gb hhd failed, a time machine 2 TB external scrambled all the backups, all at the same time, then on fixing the 2011 21l iMac with new drive, (it had already 32gb of ram) a ssd got

installed, got running, it had a update, ( wife putter, I am not afraid, but scared of making it harder for her.) the update did high Sierra because Catalina wouldn’t work. Took a few hours, finished, looked like it worked really fast, like really really fast. I don’t use her putter for anything, don’t know what she uses, so it turned out that the program she uses is the old Brøderbund “the print shop ver. 2” I hated it, I tried to get to use pages...and I’m a bad man. Because the new ssd died, hard, and after about 48 hours. I did do a disk repair in disk Utility on external 2TB and it found and recorded bad sectors, erased and reused as time machine back again, just for a while, until I get new drive for TM backups, oh and OWC got the ssd and found it was bad, BUT they were out of stock on most of there drives, 2 months later they sent the new drive, drive trey, new temp sender, and this time was able to use TM backup from the disk Utility repair to get new drive loaded, and load it did. And now find 32bit incompatibility with “the print shop” and can’t load Pages....

So now HS won’t run the print shop, can’t run pages, is there a biz card, flyer, class scheduler, how to do this weird wire wrap on this weird wood/rock/sea monkey program. I use computers to change pid’s and loop times on flight controllers, set esc rpm scales to run to FC, HEY you know now you can 4 esc together and have MORE processing power than your F7 flight controller?

ah erm, but to what I messed up on her computer, ( I did not check usable programs compatibility with HS) And now need some soft desk top publishing software, soft as in easy, free, or is there a work around getting pages 10. on a machine running high Sierra, I could find high Sierra in a ver higher than 13.x.x and could find pages ver. 8.1 which what was on oem drive ( screaming screaming couple of whimpers some crying, )

Posted on Jul 1, 2020 2:50 AM

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Posted on Jul 1, 2020 6:22 AM

Pages 10 requires that either macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or Catalina 10.15.* is already installed. Your 2011 iMac is too old to upgrade to Mojave.


However, if you ever had Pages installed beforehand, launch the Mac App Store, sign-in with the Apple ID that was previously used with it. Now press the option key while selecting the Purchases tab on the Mac App Store. If Pages is listed, you may have an install or upgrade button. This will likely inform you that Pages 10 is not available, but it may offer to install the latest Pages version (8.1) that is available for High Sierra. Worth a try.

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Jul 1, 2020 6:22 AM in response to boxheadfromcitrus heights

Pages 10 requires that either macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or Catalina 10.15.* is already installed. Your 2011 iMac is too old to upgrade to Mojave.


However, if you ever had Pages installed beforehand, launch the Mac App Store, sign-in with the Apple ID that was previously used with it. Now press the option key while selecting the Purchases tab on the Mac App Store. If Pages is listed, you may have an install or upgrade button. This will likely inform you that Pages 10 is not available, but it may offer to install the latest Pages version (8.1) that is available for High Sierra. Worth a try.

Jul 1, 2020 10:05 AM in response to VikingOSX

Yeah, it should have showed in apps, but it was something I did way back when pages was first offered Free, I couldn’t get the wife unit to convert fully to Mac, she used “the print shop for all the windows versions, and had , just had to get the same for her iMac way back in 2011.....yikes that computer is old he he And I didn’t save any TM backups from before first drives failures ( hdd died, the Samsung 2 TB time machine backup drive had unrecoverable failures in the section for her iMac, but no problem with the MacBook pro TM backup! )

it would help I didn’t have chemo brain now, I have pages on MBP 2013 13” high Sierra, isn’t there a way borrow that for hers?

Jul 1, 2020 10:11 AM in response to boxheadfromcitrus heights

If you are both using High Sierra, the version of Pages is between 7.3 and 8.1, and the Apple ID is the same, then you can put it on a USB stick and transfer it to your wife's Mac. The key is that the Apple ID associated with the Mac, and the Apple ID associated with Pages when it was downloaded from the Mac App Store, need to be the same.

Pages and High Sierra on a 2011 iMac 27”.

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