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Rosetta Stone Version 3 and Mac OS X

There are a couple of other posts but I was hoping to get a "final answer" on how far one may update their OS without breaking Rosetta Stone v3. When one pays for a "life time" piece of software but find out they can't use it, it can be frustrating.


Also, if you, dear reader, intend to post a link to Rosetta Stone's support page, please pass. All they desire it to "upgrade" me to a subscription based service and start from the beginning of my studies. I guess $300 when I bought their software 10 years ago wasn't enough.


For the rest of you, I welcome your comments.

Posted on Sep 3, 2022 4:45 PM

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Posted on Sep 4, 2022 4:17 AM

According to Rosetta Stone software, version 3 was supported with OS X 10.7 (Lion) thru macOS 10.10 (Yosemite). From their official perspective, that is as far as your $300 "lifetime" purchase extends, though the product may limp along on later releases of macOS, or it may not. Hard for anyone here to say precisely what version of macOS it finally fails on, short of Catalina which only supports 64-bit applications.

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Sep 4, 2022 4:17 AM in response to wedge07

According to Rosetta Stone software, version 3 was supported with OS X 10.7 (Lion) thru macOS 10.10 (Yosemite). From their official perspective, that is as far as your $300 "lifetime" purchase extends, though the product may limp along on later releases of macOS, or it may not. Hard for anyone here to say precisely what version of macOS it finally fails on, short of Catalina which only supports 64-bit applications.

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Sep 4, 2022 8:54 AM in response to VikingOSX

I have been testing it on El Capitan (which works) and Sierra (which also currently works.) I plan to update to High Sierra then Mojave and test those, then retrograde using Time Machine if necessary.


A point of frustration wit RS Support is they said it was a hardware-based problem. I’m using a 2017-era MacBook Pro, which works just fine.


Maybe what they were trying to say was that a 64-bit-only operating system like Catalina wouldn’t run Rosetta Stone since it’s a 32-bit software program.

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