PowerPC problem solved.

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PowerPC problem solved.

After installing lion, PowerPC dependant programs would not run due to the lack of support for 'Rosetta' meaning I couldn't open my account software.

I have now connected a external drive and installed Snow Leopard on to that. Booting from this drives enables me to run the account program from the internal hard drive though 'Finder" without having to copy or reinstall the software on the external drive. well happy.

At the end of this tax year I will install a new accounting software from someone that's supports Lion.

iMac 27" aluminium, iPhone 4 & iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 2:17 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 23, 2011 2:19 PM in response to TLP

Well, that's good news. Thanks for share.

Cheers

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Answer 2

Jul 23, 2011 2:24 PM in response to TLP

Hey TLP, Because I have a lot of legacy software too... Could I ask for clarification as I'm going to do something similar - Did you install Snow Leopard is on an external drive (firewire I assume?) and then your legacy application is on your Lion partition but you can still read it through the Finder after booted via the external drive into Snow Leopard? I'm planning on trying to do similar with Leopard installed onto a partition (if such a third partition doesn't fubar my bootcamp of course)

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Jul 24, 2011 1:25 AM in response to A. Timleck

I don't think you can partition your startup drive and I didn't want to delete lion as all my stuff was installed on that drive. I didn't have a large enough backup drive. So that's why I used an external drive to install snow leopard. Yours may be different as its already partitioned, I don't know.

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Jul 24, 2011 1:56 AM in response to TLP

Yeah, It's not looking that way - I'm trying every way under the sun to do this because you aren't supposed to partition the startup drive into more than OS X and Boot Camp but it has been done but not in Lion yet (you have to do some editing of the disk addresses so that the Windows stuff knows where it lives). Thanks for the reply. Have fun.

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Jul 24, 2011 3:58 AM in response to A. Timleck

My data was account and customers info so couldn't afford to lose it or take any chances, plus the account program is no longer supported. I had no choice than to get a cheep drive and install snow leopard on to that just to give me time to sort another account program and to fill in this years tax returns.

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