Ways to Keep Aperture 3.6?
Running OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite on a MacPro Mid-2010 vintage with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB graphics card.
This is my Photography powerhouse - frankly I don't need anything newer for photography.
BUT I have kept it to Yosemite OS so my Aperture 3.6 keeps working. I have thousands and thousands of RAW and non-destructive edited photos I want to keep "intact." IF I move them to something else like Light Room I can keep the RAW file and a .JPG output but forget about all the smart bits in between ... what if I want to go back and crop something differently or lighten it up a touch?
What I am thinking about is having two OS's on it. Maybe one on Drive 1 and one on Drive 2. Boot from Drive 1 and it comes up in 10.10.5 and Aperture works... Boot from Drive 2 with some newer OS such as 10.12 Sierra (which is listed as compatible with MacPro 2010 and later) and bang ... now I have a Vintage and a NEW OS on one box.
I imagine I would keep all data files on disks 3 and 4 in the chassis? Maybe this is not necessary?
On the "NEW" OS I can play with tools such as ON1 RAW (which I have an older version of on 10.10.5 but assume there may eventually be reasons or advantages of keeping more current with OS's with a product like this? -- add your thoughts on this too if you like)
Will this work? Is it easy to switch boot disks? Any Risks or down sides?
Aperture 3, version 3.6