Yum for Mac not working after Catalina upgrade (discontinued recipe manager software)

Hi, will preface by saying I don't know a lot about computers.


My laptop which had been running El Capitan had to have its OS reinstalled and is now running Catalina. I have one software program, "Yum for Mac", an ancient recipe manager, that is not compatible now (get 32-bit warning when I try to open it). I thought that I could install Mojave as dual boot and restore the app and recipe file to Mojave from Time Machine. But when I try to do so, the app is still "X'ed out" in Time Machine and does not allow me to restore.


Am I doing something wrong? Any other ideas? I have close to 4000 recipes and cannot bear the thought of losing them. Thank you!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 11, 2021 5:02 PM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2021 10:09 PM

Have you checked with Yum For Mac to see if they have updated their software to 64bit.


You could reinstall El Capitan if you create a new partition on your internal drive

you will need to create this partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), this can also be done on an external drive.


The alternative would be to erase Catalina and go for a reinstall of El Capitan on your internal drive

and then use Time Machine to restore your apps etc back to your mac.


If you do have an operating system on your mac and it is functioning then you can download

El Capitan using this method.


How to get old versions of macOS – Apple Support


Go to Download OS and click on OS X El Capitan 10.11

this downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.


The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running El Capitan,

a mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than El Capitan will refuse to do the next bit.


When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on

that and an installation window will open, this does not install El Capitan

but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which 

you will find in your Applications folder, it should be 6.2GBs in size.


(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick 

the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that 

you want to eventually install El Capitan on, that is for later.)


To start the installation of El Capitan double click on the Install OS X El Capitan.app.


The copy of the install app self deletes after installing El Capitan, so make sure you keep a copy of the 

InstallMacOSX.dmg if you need it in future, or you could just make a copy of the Install OS X El Capitan.app 

prior to installing and moving it to an external drive for safe keeping. 

It is also possible to create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X El Capitan.app in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app. 


Read the instructions here,

How to create a bootable installer for macOS – Apple Support

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Jan 11, 2021 10:09 PM in response to sevenseas7

Have you checked with Yum For Mac to see if they have updated their software to 64bit.


You could reinstall El Capitan if you create a new partition on your internal drive

you will need to create this partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), this can also be done on an external drive.


The alternative would be to erase Catalina and go for a reinstall of El Capitan on your internal drive

and then use Time Machine to restore your apps etc back to your mac.


If you do have an operating system on your mac and it is functioning then you can download

El Capitan using this method.


How to get old versions of macOS – Apple Support


Go to Download OS and click on OS X El Capitan 10.11

this downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.


The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running El Capitan,

a mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than El Capitan will refuse to do the next bit.


When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on

that and an installation window will open, this does not install El Capitan

but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which 

you will find in your Applications folder, it should be 6.2GBs in size.


(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick 

the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that 

you want to eventually install El Capitan on, that is for later.)


To start the installation of El Capitan double click on the Install OS X El Capitan.app.


The copy of the install app self deletes after installing El Capitan, so make sure you keep a copy of the 

InstallMacOSX.dmg if you need it in future, or you could just make a copy of the Install OS X El Capitan.app 

prior to installing and moving it to an external drive for safe keeping. 

It is also possible to create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X El Capitan.app in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app. 


Read the instructions here,

How to create a bootable installer for macOS – Apple Support

Jan 12, 2021 5:43 AM in response to Eau Rouge

Thank you!! I had tried to install El Capitan as separate partition but it got hung up at some point. I tried again with Mojave and this time got the app to install properly and open. So relieved. The app was discontinued 10 years ago (yes it really is ancient)...I am emailing with a developer of a current recipe manager (Paprika) to see if he can help me migrate my recipes over so I don't have to deal with toggling back and forth between two OS forever. But for now just relieved I can access them.


Thank you again for your help, I really appreciate it!

Jan 13, 2021 1:41 PM in response to Eau Rouge

There are close to 4000 recipes so cutting and pasting is probably out. I will try to experiment to see if I can migrate them over to another program. But I'm not very savvy in this regard so was hoping to find an app that had built in capability to do this. Unfortunately not very realistic given Yum has been discontinued for 10 years! My fault for not taking care of this in a more timely fashion. Thank you again for your suggestions. :)

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