[Elecraft] 32 bit Elecraft Utility Apps

[Dave Sublette]

Good morning David,

A curious bit of circumstance forced me to use an earlier version of the
Apple O/S recently.  My old Mac Mini died when its UPS went hysterical and
cycled the power violently several times.  I bought a new one, complete
with 16GB RAM and the 1TB Fusion Drive (and a new power backup system).

My old Mini setup ran Parallels and Win7/64 so I could run several amateur
radio programs on it.  When I tried partitioning the new drive for 250GB
for Boot camp. It wouldn't do it.  There is a BUG in High Sierra that
causes this and I have informed Apple of it.  They have had others report
the same.  They had  o way to fix it at the time I was having the problem
in late March.

My solution was to wipe the new drive and install an earlier version  -- in
this case 10.6 -- temporarily.  The older disk utility will partition the
new drive the way I needed it.  After installing Win7/64, I reinstalled
High Sierra and all was well.

This is an example of how I had to drop back to an older O/S, if only
temporarily.

73,

Dave, K4TO

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:59 AM, David Fleming via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Yes.. No worries. All new releases of the Mac and Linux versions of the
> Elecraft Utilities will be 64-bit. As a result, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
> will no longer be supported and users of 32-bit Linux will need to upgrade
> to a 64-bit distro. This will be a gradual process as new revisions of the
> Utilities are released.
>
> Out of curiosity, is anyone still using OS X 10.6?
>
> David, W4SMT
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 12, 2018, 1:26:56 AM EDT, John_N1JM <johnn1jm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Apple is starting to push 64 bit apps on the Mac. Will these change to 64
> bit
> soon?
>
> 73, John N1JM
>
>
>
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