Leica tethering is still waiting on an update from Leica. Update – Nikon tethering is fixed in Lightroom 2015.4 / 6.4. The big one – Nikon and Leica tethering is not working.
So for me I'm ruling out 10.13 High Sierra for sure and of course 10.14 Mojave, and most likely 10.12 Sierra as well -then go for 10.11 El Capitan.Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan’s now been out for a day or so, and you may be wondering whether it’s safe to upgrade.Īs far as Lightroom goes, there are a couple of issues under investigation so far. The Roaring Apps website (linked above) is quite misleading as it report about CS4 working fine (seemingly) for some people in High Sierra, while for most people (according to several web searches on the matter) it's a lost cause, and many people revert back to 10.12 Sierra or older OSX versions.
First, an alert about needing to update my 32-bit apps, secondly the (purchased and fully valid) serial number wasn't recognized by the Adobe installer.
UPDATE: I've now attempted to install my CS4 apps within 10.13 High Sierra and it simply didn't work.
I have yet to install Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 6 within 10.13 High Sierra (which is also installed on one of my test partitions), but I'm leaning towards going for 10.11 El Capitan to replace my 10.9 Mavericks (for iOS 13 compatibility in iTunes) as that appears to be a leaner, less bloated OS than the later ones (failing 10.9 of course, which would be my choice before any of them). I also found a site called Roaring apps which reports the same thing (and shows which apps work in which OSX versions).
I used the CS4 installer to do a clean installation in both cases. The same for Lightroom 6.14 which appeared to work fine. And Macs are (were?) supposed to be simple and easy to use.Īnswering my own question (after installing various OSX versions on different test partitions/drives) I found Photoshop CS4 to work fine (seemingly that is, I haven't done any extensive testing) in both 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra. when running the El Capitan installer it just says I can't install it on the 10.6.8 drive partition. (the installer DVDs had 10.6.4 as far as I remember) so I checked for an OS update and had it update to 10.6.8, but back in 10.9.5. So I installed 10.6 Snow Leopard on that empty SSD partition, then it complained about needing a minimum of 10.6.8. Mavericks (which I don't want to do, just in case things go wrong). I have the 10.10 installer DMG file, but Diskmaker X complains that the installer isn't available.
I haven't heard about any higher OSX being compatible with it, which is why I'm trying to find out here.īased upon your recommendation I've tried to install 10.11 El Capitan on another SSD in my Mac Pro (I've partitioned it so as to allow different OSX versions to be tried out), but for some reason I can't install it. I read that apparently CS4 works in 10.12 Sierra according to Adobe themselves, with a little tweaking the installer. I've been told it can run 10.14 Mojave and even 10.15 Catalina, but I'm not sure how wise it is to run different OS versions as that could complicate compatibility between the two. My other computer is a mid-2012 Macbook Pro (2.5GHz i5) maxed out at 16 GB RAM and has had its HDD replaced with an SSD. It won't run 10.14 Mojave until I replace my ATI 5870 graphic card with something else, which I see no compelling reason to do. My main computer is a mid-2010 Mac Pro (2.8GHz quad core) fitted with an SSD for OSX/apps and multiple spinning drives for files and backups. I should have mentioned my hardware as I see many discussions on similar matters yield completely different results according to which hardware it's installed on. you'd choose 10.10 Yosemite for the best performance? I like to hear it's light because most OS upgrades are bloated and in turn need more powerful hardware in order to run efficiently.