[Elecraft] 32 bit Elecraft Utility Apps

[Thorpe, Jeffrey]

I still occasionally use an older 2007 Macbook that will not run anything newer than OSX 10.6.8. It handles my radio apps just fine.

Jeff - kg7hdz

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:02 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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