Snow Leopard and Aperture 1.x

<p>Be warned. If you upgrade a Mac to Snow Leopard, Aperture 1.x will not launch. I am disappointed to say the least and now I cannot access my photos without upgrading to Aperture 2.X</p>

<p>I haven't experienced any problems with any photos apps under 10.6.1: Aperture 2.1.4 works fine under Snow Leopard, as does DPP 3.6 (& associated Canon apps), iPhoto 2009 & PS CS3. Even my ancient copies of SliverFast and EpsonScan are fine. Of the several dozen of apps I use--many older Rosetta apps--only Pages 08 suffered some minor font display problems. Even my Quicken 2005 and 2002 version of Dreamweaver work perfectly. Office 2008 is just as slow and buggy as it was under 10.5.</p>

<p>Aperture 1 was released over 3 years ago and was designed for another OS. It's time to upgrade Aperture. Besides Aperture 2 is much better.</p>

<p>Before I upgraded to 10.6 I cloned my system disk onto another HD just in case I needed to run 10.5 (didn't need it yet). If you're unwilling to research program compatibility keeping the old OS on line is smarter than crying about a surprise later.</p>

<p>I have definitely noticed a new trend toward "its your fault for not knowing this." There was a time when software engineers apologized when they broke backward compatibility. I have been using Apples since the 1980s. I have maintained a Mac network and medical database program for close to twenty years.. I program in Z80 assembly, Basic, Turbo Pascal, C++, C# and I am the author of a book on database programming and the author of a popular object oriented programming tutorial. I know about backward compatibility. I read several articles about Snow Leopard and none of the articles I read mentioned that you could not run Aperture 1.x or print bulleted or numbered lists from Word X on Snow Leopard. I am old school in that I expect programs that are ONLY three years old to continue to run. So excuse me for being so ignorant. </p>

<p>Oh yeah Geoff you gotta keep up with the trends or you could become obsolete! I truly wish all my apps were backward compatible forever too. I wouldn't have to keep a damn Mac SE, 9600 and G4 in the backroom for occasional file conversions from ancient apps (I shit you not kiddo). Come to think of it, I wish my friends, family and ex could be backward compatible. But that just ain't how life is.</p>

<p>Amazingly, almost everything else still works with 10.6. I even have several apps that didn't run under 10.5.11 rewaken under 10.6! Apple provides a really excellent version of Rosetta to run your old Appleworks and PSCS if you need to stroll down memory lane. So forgive, forget and move on. You'll feel better and won't feel the need to of bitch about non-Canon issues on a Canon gear forum. Life is actually still pretty dad burn fine.</p>

<p>http://www.maclife.com/article/%5Bprimary-term%5D/mac_os_x_v106_snow_leopard_troubleshooting_roundup</p>

<p>So what's the big deal?<br>

If you're happy with Aperture 1 then you just continue to use 10.5. After all you're doing your work in Aperture and not the OS.</p>

<p>I don't ever recall complaining about non Canon gear on this site.<br>

Yes. If you are happy with Aperture 1 continue to use 10.5. In other words, don't make the same mistake that I did.</p>

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<p>“In other words, don't make the same mistake that I did.”</p>

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<p>It's certainly not your mistake, and I didn't mean for my comment to come over like that. I can relate to your frustration: in my 15 years of working with computers I’ve had more things broken by arbitrarily upgrading to new versions than just leaving them alone.</p>