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Q: I wish I'd never installed Lion...

Just found another issue after installing Lion (things I wish I'd known first):

 

Compressor 2 just packed up as it 'couldn't connect to background services".

 

So I followed the advice given here (which I've had to do before under Leopard and Snow Leopard too): http://support.apple.com/kb/ta47672?viewlocale=en_us

 

Trouble is, I now cannot reinstall Compressor as Lion tells me it cannot cope with 'PowerPC' software.

 

Aaarrghhh!

 

This means that if I need to reinstall FinalCut Studio 5.1.4 I won't be able to - even though it works under Lion.

 

Does anybody have a workaround for this ridiculous situation?

 

Thanks.

Apple user since 1982

Posted on Sep 13, 2011 7:22 AM

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  • by David Harbsmeier,

    David Harbsmeier David Harbsmeier Sep 13, 2011 7:26 AM in response to ian-apple
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    Sep 13, 2011 7:26 AM in response to ian-apple

    Rule #1: If you plan to run obsolete software (FCS 3 apps in this case) never upgrade or update your computer, OS or QuickTime version.

     

    If you break Ruile #1, the fix is to reinstall the old OS.

     

    -DH

  • by ian-apple,

    ian-apple ian-apple Sep 13, 2011 7:31 AM in response to David Harbsmeier
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    Sep 13, 2011 7:31 AM in response to David Harbsmeier

    David, it isn't "obsolete software", I'm using it right now.  It just seems to fall into a void where it works fine but can't be re/installed.

     

    Way Apple's going right now, I should have expected it.

     

    I used to SO like Apple!

  • by David Harbsmeier,

    David Harbsmeier David Harbsmeier Sep 13, 2011 7:37 AM in response to ian-apple
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    Sep 13, 2011 7:37 AM in response to ian-apple

    I understand your frustration ... I really do, but FCP 5.1 was replaced years ago and is therefore obsolete.  Even FCP 7 is obsolete, considering that Apple dropped it completely and replaced it with FCP-10.

     

    Being obsolete doesn't mean that it no longer works.  I'm still running FCP 4.5 on a G4 with OS 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.5.2 and it works flawlessly. But it is obsolete.

     

    -DH

  • by Michael Grenadier,Solvedanswer

    Michael Grenadier Michael Grenadier Sep 13, 2011 12:03 PM in response to David Harbsmeier
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    Sep 13, 2011 12:03 PM in response to David Harbsmeier

    Perhaps a better rule is      ALWAYS CLONE YOUR STARTUP DRIVE BEFORE UPGRADING/UPDATING  ANYTHING.  Works for me.   If things go south after the upgrade, I can clone back to my startup drive and be back at work in an hour or two.  I actually clone to a second internal drive so I can just restart off the alternate drive and be back at work in minutes.

  • by ian-apple,

    ian-apple ian-apple Sep 29, 2011 9:06 AM in response to Michael Grenadier
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    Sep 29, 2011 9:06 AM in response to Michael Grenadier
  • by Gusto-Guus,

    Gusto-Guus Gusto-Guus Sep 29, 2011 7:19 PM in response to Michael Grenadier
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    Sep 29, 2011 7:19 PM in response to Michael Grenadier
    Perhaps a better rule is      ALWAYS CLONE YOUR STARTUP DRIVE BEFORE UPGRADING/UPDATING  ANYTHING.  Works for me.   If things go south after the upgrade, I can clone back to my startup drive and be back at work in an hour or two.  I actually clone to a second internal drive so I can just restart off the alternate drive and be back at work in minutes.

    This absolute BS! Even Windows 7 allows to run software that was made in the 90s. Seriously Apple needs to better understand its customers.

  • by Michael Grenadier,

    Michael Grenadier Michael Grenadier Sep 30, 2011 7:11 AM in response to Gusto-Guus
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    Sep 30, 2011 7:11 AM in response to Gusto-Guus

    And this has been the way Apple plays the game for a long time.  When OSX was first introduced, many but not all earlier versions of software would play on it, but as the years passed and OSX was updated, many older applications would no longer work.  Editing software is particularly demanding on hardware and OS and Apple made the decision to optimize the OS for newer software.   And I'm not sure windows 7 would be able to run a version of avid that was 5 years old. 

     

    I understand your frustration, but good luck at changing Apple. 

  • by Gusto-Guus,

    Gusto-Guus Gusto-Guus Sep 30, 2011 5:07 PM in response to Michael Grenadier
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    Sep 30, 2011 5:07 PM in response to Michael Grenadier

    Michael, you'd be surprised at how old of a software you could run on Windows.

  • by David Harbsmeier,

    David Harbsmeier David Harbsmeier Sep 30, 2011 5:14 PM in response to Gusto-Guus
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    Sep 30, 2011 5:14 PM in response to Gusto-Guus

    I'm still running AppleWorks 5 on Windows XP and it was originally written for Windows 95.  Not all of the functionality works, mind you, but most of it works OK.   I haven't tried it yet on Windows 7.

     

    -DH