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1. Iphoto Update For Catalina
2. Iphoto Update For Catalina
3. Iphoto Update For Mac Catalina

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• Tyshawn Cormier clearly has mad skills. The elegant UI is a nice, surprising touch. Maybe next week he can tackle all the old 32-bit games. That would earn him the Nobel Prize for Software for sure.
• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

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• Tyshawn Cormier clearly has mad skills. The elegant UI is a nice, surprising touch. Maybe next week he can tackle all the old 32-bit games. That would earn him the Nobel Prize for Software for sure.

  Likely not going to happen. His method relies on the app to be mostly 64-bit already (and created using Objective-C). Works well for recently discontinued Apple apps, but not so great for anything which was only ever 32-bit.
• Would be amazing if he could bring back Dashboard too!
• '...Finder handles iPhone and iPad backups...' Could the author elaborate on this more, please?

• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  This has nothing to do with smart people in Apple. They chose to wash their hands of 32-bit apps (or ones that are partially 32-bit). They could have done this but who would accept this partial solution from Apple. They would deliver or support this.
  
• What a fabulous deep dive read into the how to do it. So clearly written; I smiled throughout at the conversational style!
• Before a virtual machine is available, Retroactive seemingly a nice trick. I always suggest Find My Friends to include more powerful functions but am disappointed by Find My... on iOS 13. Can Retroactive put Find My Friends back?

• '...Finder handles iPhone and iPad backups...' Could the author elaborate on this more, please?

  https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/05/how-iphones-and-ipads-back-up-synchronize-with-ios-13-and-macos-catalina
  

• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  Wait, what? So because Apple made a cognitive decision to migrate a very complex operating system to 64-bit only, and it upsets some people using obsolete software, that makes them not smart? That...that doesn’t make any sense.
  Sorry the world doesn’t give you everything you want for reasons you’re not even aware of. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of disappointment.
• Sad there was never a proper update for Aperture.
• I would have jumped on this for Aperture alone at one point in time however, I am now deeply into Capture One Pro 12 and there is no going back. Aperture was fabulous but never having been updated (let alone supported) it is now far behind the curve. The RAW support isn't there either for any new Cameras (e.g. my new full-frame Sony Alpha) and even if it were the correction algorithms are not in the same league. It's not as if the Aperture Libraries are not fully useable by Photos and Capture One. Had they not been this would definitely have been a good idea just to access old Libraries for export but it is not needed. Sad to say but it is time to let Aperture rest in peace.

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• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  Wait, what? So because Apple made a cognitive decision to migrate a very complex operating system to 64-bit only, and it upsets some people using obsolete software, that makes them not smart? That...that doesn’t make any sense.
  Sorry the world doesn’t give you everything you want for reasons you’re not even aware of. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of disappointment.

  Yes, you are right. However, Apple could have kept the Aperture team intact and continued the development of Aperture to be fully 64 bit and also continued to improve its capabilities. There is no reason Aperture could not have been as good or better than the likes of Capture One Pro 12 by now. The reason Apple dropped Aperture leaving many of us using it for professional work high and dry is still a mystery to me. The only explanation given was that Apple's Photos was 'going to be (over time) as good'. It's not that Photos is great for consumers but it is useless for professionals. It's one of the few things Apple has done in all the years I've used Apple gear (since 1976) that left me really pissed.

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• I have just resurrected Aperture and I am very happy. I am not a professional photographer, but I did like the interface and the quick access to adjustments...whereas in Photos, all that is so dumbed down.
  

• Yes, you are right. However, Apple could have kept the Aperture team intact and continued the development of Aperture to be fully 64 bit and also continued to improve its capabilities. There is no reason Aperture could not have been as good or better than the likes of Capture One Pro 12 by now. The reason Apple dropped Aperture leaving many of us using it for professional work high and dry is still a mystery to me. The only explanation given was that Apple's Photos was 'going to be (over time) as good'. It's not that Photos is great for consumers but it is useless for professionals. It's one of the few things Apple has done in all the years I've used Apple gear (since 1976) that left me really pissed.

  
  As I understand it, the underlying code was pretty messy, the team had largely been dismantled already, and there was no longer any 'shepherd' within the company to fight for it.
  But be sure that I don't disagree with you. I find the interface so far beyond anything else that I will continue to use it as long as possible. (I need it mainly as a cataloguer, not an image editor.) It was glorious software design that really showed how it should be done, and I've been damn bummed that Apple didn't take the pride in it that it deserved. (And despite being a decades-long Adobe fan generally, I find Lightroom just kludgy and awful by comparison.)
• Dumb ass question.. do you run this application on Aperture before or after upgrading to Catalina (or does it not matter ??)
• After Retroactive my Aperture is doesn't have all the same brushes as before. Do you have the same experience? All I get is 'Retouch'. I can add adjustments be copying them from another photo and stamp then on to the photo I'm working on but I can not add them from scratch.
  
• All I can say is 'thank you' TyShawn!!! Even Capture One Pro 20 is no match for Aperture's combined DAM and extensible photo editing.
• I am using OS Mojave with Aperture 3.6 and trying to open Fuji Raw files without success. Any suggestions?
• Do I upgrade to Catalina first before installing Retroactive? Or in Mojave?
  Please note that I have an iPhoto library of over 100,000 photos!

Maybe also an old version of iTunes

Iphoto Update For Catalina

Hey, have you upgraded from macOS Mohave to one of the newer OSes, like Catalina or Big Sur? In that case, some of your apps might have stopped working. For example, Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, iPhoto, Aperture, and old versions of Adobe Photoshop stop launching, with a dialog box something like this:

However the dialog box for your app looks, the message is clear: the app won’t run. And the reason is incredibly simple: macOS Catalina drops 32-bit support. Big Sur, being released after Catalina, naturally doesn’t support it either. For the user, what this means is older apps don’t run. However, iPhoto and Aperture, being 64-bit apps with some 32-bit code, can be patched to run on Catalina & Big Sur. Here’s how.

Iphoto Update For Catalina

Somebody has taken the trouble to create an app named Retroactive which patches iPhoto and Aperture to run on macOS Catalina and Big Sur. While we only tested it on Catalina, others have tested it on Big Sur and it works perfectly there too. The app itself is pretty self-explanatory. Here’s a direct download link. Unzip the zip and right-click the Retroactive app. Click open. It will ask you to confirm your decision. Click Open. Now, if you have installed iPhoto or Aperture, you can click on the Unlock button for that app to make the app run again on Catalina. Also, you can click the iTunes button in order to install iTunes rather than Catalina’s Music, Podcasts, and TV apps. For reference, here’s iPhoto running on my Catalina test device:

Iphoto Update For Mac Catalina

That’s it.