Remove 32 bit Adobe applications after updating to macOS Catalina?

4 years 5 months ago #662389 by Jim Photo
I just updated my Macbook and re-downloaded with a fresh install.  I'm  using Go64 and it shows that I have eleven 32 bit Adobe applications that clearly can't run on new OS.  So can I delete these then?


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4 years 5 months ago #662468 by Ted Helm
Yes you can delete those files, your computer won't be needing them


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4 years 5 months ago #662608 by Overread
so the new OS won’t run 32 bit apps?? 

What happens if apps aren’t 64?


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4 years 5 months ago #662690 by garyrhook

Overread wrote: so the new OS won’t run 32 bit apps?? 

What happens if apps aren’t 64?


Apple, because MacOS is a typically badly designed operating system, will no longer allow 32-bit applications to run. Only 64-bit applications.

And since there is no other choice, your second question is answered by your first, me thinks.

The response to the OP is: they won't run, therefore provide no function. Delete them. If there is not contemporary version of said applications, then one is out of luck.


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4 years 5 months ago #662743 by Finn
I'll take a wack at this, why Mac OS badly designed?  I thought with the limited number of problems with this compared to PC, this would be the better choice of OS?


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4 years 5 months ago #662795 by garyrhook

Finn wrote: I'll take a wack at this, why Mac OS badly designed?  I thought with the limited number of problems with this compared to PC, this would be the better choice of OS?


My point of reference is Enterprise-class servers, and an operating system that showed it's possible to support both 32- and 64-bit binaries without much trouble. So when I fault MacOS (and by association BSD Unix) it's simply a matter of perspective.

I will also point out that being well-designed and being well-implemented aren't the same thing, and one does not imply the other.


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