Lion and Power PC products
i just upgraded to Lion 10.7 and now i cannot open my Power PC programs like word, excel and powerpoint because i am being told they are no longer supported. the Office programs i'm not too worried about because i use the mac pages, numbers and keynote, but i cannot get Quicken 2006 to open, and that has my finacial life in there!!! i am lost without it. Someone, please help!!!!! I am in dire straights here
The fact that Lion will not support PowerPC applications was published for months.
So I really don't understand why somebody with a lot of important applications dedicated to this kind of processor installed Lion.
We aren't forced to buy every new operating systems.
Now, as far as I know you have some schemes available.
(1) buy modern versions of your very old applications
(2) if your hard disk is large enough, use Disk Utils to create a new partition and install Snow Leopard in it.
(3) if your HD isn't sufficiently large, buy an external one (they are cheap now) but check carefully that it may be used as a startup volume. It seems that some USB ones don't match this requirement. I use FireWire ones and they behave flawlessly.
Once the HD is available, you may use a tool like copy Cloner to replicate the internal HD in the external one so, when you will want to run Lion you will be able to do that from the external device. And of course, remove Lion from the internal HD to be able to re-install 10.6.8 on it.
You may also leave Lion on the internal HD and instal 10.6.8 on the external HD.
It's just a matter of taste.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 23 juillet 2011 19:10:14
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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