The update is free for everyone running any version of the Lion operating system. To my surprise, migration assistant moved over all the apps that it says won't work so I will have to go in and clean them all out.The final version of OS X Lion 10.7.4 has been released for general consumption in both Client and Server form. It automatically opens migration assistant on the first boot. It requires a couple of restarts to install. I didn't think it installed at first, it gives you an app that tells you what programs won't run with it. I moved it to an external firewire drive to move it around. I tried burning it onto a DVD but got media errors twice.

I'm very disappointed with this revelation of Lion. This appears worse than my transition from system 9 and the loss of all those programs collected for so many years. I'll be installing this system on something that doesn't matter.

I ran this Terminal command and the list of programs that won't work on my machine was very extensive.

Open and do a search for the occurrence ' Kind: PowerPC'.Īll the software that have this label will not function on Lion.įor those who still imperatively need a Power PC application and who want nevertheless to upgrade to Lion, I suggest that they keep a partition Snow Leopard on their machine. It will create on your desk a textual file ' MyFileTypes.txt' that will contain all the list of the applications of your computer. System_profiler SPApplicationsDataType >~/Desktop/MyFileTypes.txt Make the following command in the terminal: Before doing this update, it would be wise to check which applications, which small utilities will not function any more and to benefit from it to do the housekeeping or to find an equivalent with the Intel code of it.ĬultOfMac offers a simple solution to track all this software. Rosetta allows Power PC apps to run with an Intel processor. The incapacity of Lion to allow the functioning of the Power PC applications may be a major problem, the problem is the abandonment of Rosetta. No telling how long it will take once email notifications are sent out. Download time is running an hour and forty five minutes.

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