bladerunner1948

I tried your suggestion and that did the trick. It was Affinity Photo 2 I was using. Performance was actually OK. A bit slow in loading the file initially but after that it was acceptable. Thanks for the tip.

I'm running a Mac under Mojave. (late 2015 27" 4GHz core i7 32GB RAM) I have Parallels 18 installed with Windows 10 Pro and Catalina set up as virtual machines. I downloaded Affinity Photo 2 trials for both Windows and Mac. On the Windows VM AP 2 works very well. No problems found so far. Under Catalina though, it's a different story. I can open files (JPG and Canon CR2 RAW files) but thay are not visible. Nothing is displayed. On the control panel I can see the histogram, metadata, lens info etc but the image itself is not displayed. I used the same files for the Windows test without any problems. Anyone running Catalina out there? Any ideas?

Right click on the installer and click “Show Package Contents”. Click on folder named “Contents”. Click on the folder named “SharedSupport”. Delete the file named “InstallInfo.plist”.

Hi, If you go to the link below, you will find a link to a download of Sierra. You will also see info regarding a possible install error caused by sn out of date certificate. This is easy to fix by just following the instructions in the article. If you any problems with that, let me know as I have a working Sierra installer which I have used in Parallels Desktop version 15. I could upload that to my cloud storage and sednd you a linkl. https://osxdaily.com/2019/10/24/fix-install-macos-application-damaged-cant-be-used-error-mac/

I'd more or less come to the same conclusion. If I want to keep my Logic Pro X up to date I'll need to invest in an Apple silicon machine at some point. I could also run V2 Affinity on it together with some DXO software that I can't run under Mojave. I too have an old 2012 MacBook Pro and also a late 2015 iMac 4ghz Core i7 27" retina both running Mojave. The MBP (which I bought in 2013) has 16GB RAM and a 2TB SSD. Boots in 15 seconds and still runs great. There was a newer MBP available at the time but not as upgradeable as the older one. Also a few ports short. I never had cause to regret that purchase and still use it every day. I worked in IT for 40 years and always had machines I could get into. Until Apple..... Affinity is not the only company having Catalina as a minimum requirement. DXO are the same plus a a few others. Ain't progress wunnerfull:-))

Hi, I read that article and was suitably shocked. My VM plans have been completely blown out of the water. Although I use Affinity, I also use LR6 and Photoshop CS6. LR6 for it's cataloguing/library management and CS6 for pre/printing and heavy lifting. Neither will run on post Mojave releases. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to run Mojave as a VM on Apple Silicon. Major rethink required.

I temporarily upgraded my MacBook Pro (13" unibody) from Mojave to Catalina to see what the impact was on CS6/LR6 etc. Neither would run. CS6 not at all and LR6 although it launched fell down all over the place. I'd cloned my MBP before doing this experiment so cloned it back to Mohave. My iMac is running Mohave and I have set up both Sierra and Mohave as virtual machines under Vmware and Parallels. I have tested CS6 running on those VMs without any problems. As soon as Apple builds a Mac Mini with a decent spec, I intend to switch to that and run the latest Mac OS. I'll create VMs using Parallels and run CS6 and LR6 that way. AFAIK Vmware does not supprt Apple silicon yet. I can then run the Affinity suite on the Mini.