64bit Catalina Released

[Michael Naylor]

Lightroom Version

Lightroom Classic version: 8.4.1

Operating System

1. macOS 10.14 Mojave

MacOS Catalina is available for download as of today. Problem is, there are no less than 11 (eleven) 32bit Adobe Apps lurking on my system. Any thoughts? Has anyone braver than I discovered if LR and PS still works?

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Hi

Check our Blog from last night, it clarifies which versions and what works.

Lightroom and macOS Catalina 10.15 Compatibility | The Lightroom Queen

The newest Mac operating system, macOS 10.15 Catalina, went live today. The big question is, do Lightroom and Lightroom Classic work? It's a good

www.lightroomqueen.com

Personally I rely on a Wacom tablet and will follow Wacom's advice to wait for their final Driver version before updating my system.

 

[Michael Naylor]

Hi

Check our Blog from last night, it clarifies which versions and what works.

Lightroom and macOS Catalina 10.15 Compatibility | The Lightroom Queen

The newest Mac operating system, macOS 10.15 Catalina, went live today. The big question is, do Lightroom and Lightroom Classic work? It's a good

www.lightroomqueen.com

Personally I rely on a Wacom tablet and will follow Wacom's advice to wait for their final Driver version before updating my system.

Thanks Paul, but what about Photoshop and if my Creative Cloud App say I'm up-to-date, why do I have 11 32bits Apps showing in the system report?

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Photoshop:

Photoshop and Catalina | macOS 10.15

Find answers to common questions when running Photoshop with macOS Catalina.

helpx.adobe.com

It'd be interesting to know which Apps you have that are 32-bit (they may not be essential, Adobe have been doing some fairly rigorous testing as you can imagine!)

 

[Michael Naylor]

Photoshop:

Photoshop and Catalina | macOS 10.15

Find answers to common questions when running Photoshop with macOS Catalina.

helpx.adobe.com

It'd be interesting to know which Apps you have that are 32-bit (they may not be essential, Adobe have been doing some fairly rigorous testing as you can imagine!)

These highlighted...

 

[Victoria Bampton]

AAM is the old Adobe Application Manager. It's been replaced in current shipping products by the Creative Cloud app, but you might have old programs (Elements?) knocking around still. Setup and Uninstall are again for older products, maybe earlier versions of Lightroom. You probably want to uninstall those older apps before upgrading, as the uninstaller won't work.

 

[Michael Naylor]

AAM is the old Adobe Application Manager. It's been replaced in current shipping products by the Creative Cloud app, but you might have old programs (Elements?) knocking around still. Setup and Uninstall are again for older products, maybe earlier versions of Lightroom. You probably want to uninstall those older apps before upgrading, as the uninstaller won't work.

Thanks Victoria. I've never had Elements. Only ever had the Photography Subscription. Uninstalling these "hidden" 32bit apps isn't that simple, although I do agree they shouldn't be there. What a pity Adobe hasn't bothered to find a way to do this during previous updates - instead of littering up everyone's system with crud.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Could have been Adobe Reader, earlier LR versions, all sorts.

When I checked my system earlier, it was not only reporting installed versions, but also archive copies stored on an external drive. After you've uninstalled the programs, you should be fine to delete any leftover files.

 

[Michael Naylor]

Could have been Adobe Reader, earlier LR versions, all sorts.

When I checked my system earlier, it was not only reporting installed versions, but also archive copies stored on an external drive. After you've uninstalled the programs, you should be fine to delete any leftover files.

Frankly, I'm scared of deleting them because I've no idea what other system files might also exist. Who knows what side effects this could cause? Do Adobe have a script to clean up old unused hangovers?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Yes, the CC Cleaner wipes out a whole bunch of old stuff after uninstalling. You would need to reinstall CC afterwards. Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

 

[Michael Naylor]

Yes, the CC Cleaner wipes out a whole bunch of old stuff after uninstalling. You would need to reinstall CC afterwards. Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

Oh that's nice. Then I can spend all day tomorrow re-installing over my very slow Internet connection.

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Updated OS is a good opportunity to take stock. If you have as slow internet connection the download of Catalina will be a bigger issue.

 

[Michael Naylor]

Updated OS is a good opportunity to take stock. If you have as slow internet connection the download of Catalina will be a bigger issue.

That's a very clever answer.

 

[Keithanthony]

Has anyone any insight to what the situation is with Epson printer drivers?

 

[dasuess51]

Has anyone any insight to what the situation is with Epson printer drivers?

Just updated my MacbookPro to Catalina to do some testing. My main system is an iMac. No new printer drivers yet for Catalina, but they have just updated Epson Scan which was 32 bit. A note on their support website says they are working on various updates. As soon as I try some printing to my R3000, I will post an update.


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[Keithanthony]

Thanks, that's very helpful. I use a R3000 too, its a great printer and it would be good if we could use with Catalina.

 

[Tom75]

I have upgraded my iMac to Catalina and it seems there are no problem with LR classic or PS CC

Regards,
Tom

 

[dasuess51]

I have upgraded my iMac to Catalina and it seems there are no problem with LR classic or PS CC

That’s good news...

I plan on doing my testing tomorrow from my Mac laptop, import NEF and RAF files, edit, round tripping to PS, and then printing from LR to my R3000.


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[Zenon]

Yes, the CC Cleaner wipes out a whole bunch of old stuff after uninstalling. You would need to reinstall CC afterwards. Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

I had some issues early on when I got LR7 and used that cleaner. It fixed it.

 

[Zenon]

Is this real or fake? I couldn't find anything at Adobe.

Adobe warns users not to upgrade to macOS Catalina

Lightroom and Photoshop don't seem to like Catalina.

www.creativebloq.com

 

[Johan Elzenga]

I don't think Adbe said anything like that. They just informed users about incompatibilities. It's up to the user to draw any conclusion about (not yet) upgrading.

 

[Jim Wilde]

I couldn't find anything at Adobe.

On the front page of the Photoshop Family home page: Adobe compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina | Photoshop Family Customer Community

 

[Zenon]

Thank you

 

[Zenon]

Is this real or fake? I couldn't find anything at Adobe.

Adobe warns users not to upgrade to macOS Catalina

Lightroom and Photoshop don't seem to like Catalina.

www.creativebloq.com

That is the problem with 3rd party sites. I went on Adobe's home page and did a search but couldn't find anything. Forgot about the site where Jim linked me to. I don't go there very often.

 

[Martin Owen]

I installed Catalina and with the exception of a ‘sign in to iCloud again’ issue, which I understand is quite common and was resolved with a call to Apple support, I have no problems - yet.

I don’t have any 32 bit applications as we’ve been told they wouldn’t continue to run on OSX for two (?) years. I was concerned about by Epson Scan with was 32bit, but that has been replaced by Epson Scan 2 which is 64bit. I tried it last night and it works fine, as does the Epson Perfection Photo V600.

I’ve played with the Sidecar feature which allows use of an iPad as a second monitor. I’m still working out how to easily get Lightroom to send an image to the iPad but I did manage to get a photo onto the iPad Pro and in develop mode was able to use the Apple Pencil to make edits and act like a Wacom Tablet (I’ve never used one, but the pencil and iPad seems to do the job I want it to). It appears pretty faultless, but it’s early days and any problems I’m having are probably user error.