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I am about to transfer my data (from Time Machine backup) to a new iMac 24 inch. My old machine is 10 yrs old, running ElCapitan 10.11.6. I am worried whether my existing applications will run in the new environment -- I am still using Microsoft Office 08.
iMac, OS X 10.11
Big Sur and newer (Monterey for example) will only run 64 bit applications. The first thing to do is to assess your third party apps on the old Mac in order to determine which ones you want to migrate forward. Then determine of those that you want to migrate which ones need to be upgraded to their 64bit equivalents. You can use an app such as RoaringApps to find what you have of you can find it in Mac OS!!! Some third party apps can be updated at no charge, others such as MS Office and any Adobe Pro apps must be re-purchased or move to their subscription models if you want to stay with those developers. Please remember you don't have to stay with Microsoft, you can use LibreOffice which is free and will work just fine. LibreOffice is just one example. If you use Adobe apps, again there are third party alternatives to research.
All of your data will come across easily, just follow the steps in Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant and follow them. Do that after you have updated on the old computer and have backed up using Time Machine on the old Mac. The reason I suggest using this process is because it is overall the fastest and easiest method if you follow the directions. If you don't follow the directions (don't worry they are dead simple) you may run into some major issues.
Big Sur and newer (Monterey for example) will only run 64 bit applications. The first thing to do is to assess your third party apps on the old Mac in order to determine which ones you want to migrate forward. Then determine of those that you want to migrate which ones need to be upgraded to their 64bit equivalents. You can use an app such as RoaringApps to find what you have of you can find it in Mac OS!!! Some third party apps can be updated at no charge, others such as MS Office and any Adobe Pro apps must be re-purchased or move to their subscription models if you want to stay with those developers. Please remember you don't have to stay with Microsoft, you can use LibreOffice which is free and will work just fine. LibreOffice is just one example. If you use Adobe apps, again there are third party alternatives to research.
All of your data will come across easily, just follow the steps in Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant and follow them. Do that after you have updated on the old computer and have backed up using Time Machine on the old Mac. The reason I suggest using this process is because it is overall the fastest and easiest method if you follow the directions. If you don't follow the directions (don't worry they are dead simple) you may run into some major issues.
You will need to purchase Microsoft Office 2021 and which is a full purchase, or purchase an Office 365 subscription, or switch to the free LibreOffice app, or switch to Apple iWork apps Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, and which can read and write many Office documents.
The documents themselves will transfer across, and will be accesible to newer versions of the tools.
To find the apps that definitely won’t work, you can use the Go64 tool.
Slight correction to the above: Catalina and newer require 64-bit apps.
Old apps to new IMac
