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Mojave and Vectorworks 2018 conflict: Good Work-around?

I recently installed Mojave and found that an essential function (text creation) in my CAD program, Vectorworks 2018, did not work. There was no user warning from Vectorworks and there is no schedule for a fix.


So I'm looking for a work-around. I have room on my Home HD for a partition. Could I install High Sierra on that as the system disk? If so, what is the best way?


Could I use an external HD and install High Sierra, and use this as startup disk to run the CAD program residing on my Home HD?


Any other ideas?


Many thanks in advance.


Ed in Brooklyn

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 17, 2018 7:06 AM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2018 11:15 AM

Because your iMac is recent enough to run Mojave, the Mac App Store may refuse the download of High Sierra. See if you can achieve that before you do anything else. If you can get the full High Sierra installer onto your Mojave boot drive, then you can make a bootable USB stick installer from it.


You will want to add another partition (via Disk Utility) to your boot drive in Mojave to accommodate High Sierra. Once you are able to install High Sierra on its partition, you then want to uninstall Vectorworks 2018 from the Mojave drive (per vendor uninstall directions), boot into High Sierra, and reinstall Vectorworks 2018 there.


Others have reported the inability to remove the High Sierra installer from Mojave by any means. Your mileage may vary.

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Oct 18, 2018 11:15 AM in response to Edward M. Baum

Because your iMac is recent enough to run Mojave, the Mac App Store may refuse the download of High Sierra. See if you can achieve that before you do anything else. If you can get the full High Sierra installer onto your Mojave boot drive, then you can make a bootable USB stick installer from it.


You will want to add another partition (via Disk Utility) to your boot drive in Mojave to accommodate High Sierra. Once you are able to install High Sierra on its partition, you then want to uninstall Vectorworks 2018 from the Mojave drive (per vendor uninstall directions), boot into High Sierra, and reinstall Vectorworks 2018 there.


Others have reported the inability to remove the High Sierra installer from Mojave by any means. Your mileage may vary.

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Oct 22, 2018 8:32 AM in response to Edward M. Baum

i have the same problem with VectorWorks.

The worse is apple having so many beta test before releasing the program could have created a post warning users before upgrading the software to OSMojavi with which 3rd party software there is or could be problems. (create a link to forums where Users make critics and comments. There are ways to make things easer for users and warn them)

It's time consuming and a pain in the lower-back to downgrade to HighSierra. Not even that easy to do it (downgrading software version)


Michael Bumüller

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