Fred Kingston_RIP
Senior Member
I will add some info to this thread...
I also had several versions of Lightroom and Photoshop on a Late 2012 Mac Mini... Along with several versions of Nik tools, DXO software and Topaz tools... I also do beta testing for one of those companies.
Over the years, Adobe changed the way they "do plugins" for their products, causing the above companies issues in how/where they install their respective plugins...
Earlier this past year, Apple patched a security vulnerability that appeared in a limited number of their Late2012 graphic cards. As those that own those devices, we're all too aware that replacing a video card in Apple products doesn't happen. Even though that version of Mac is still supported by Apple's Catalina OS, the video cards are NOT. The patch effectively kills a lot of graphic functions the way newer graphic software is written. All of the companies I mentioned above have had serious issues with this. I won't repeat the rants from other posts regarding Apple but the reality is, there wasn't much that anybody could do except correct what they could and move forward.
At any rate, I swapped my Late2012 Mac for a new 2020 M1 Mac. And transferred everything from my old Mac to my new Mac... All of my problems persisted... I took a step back, and decided I needed to start over. I basically deleted everything off the Mac, and started methodically reinstalling all the above graphic software one by one... only installing the latest versions. Problems that I had had for years, went away. I don't want to go into detail about what the issues were, but suffice it to say, it was rooted in trying to maintain multiple versions of the same software on a single computer.
My New Year's Resolution this year (can I do that in December?) is to ONLY install and maintain the current versions of all software.
I also had several versions of Lightroom and Photoshop on a Late 2012 Mac Mini... Along with several versions of Nik tools, DXO software and Topaz tools... I also do beta testing for one of those companies.
Over the years, Adobe changed the way they "do plugins" for their products, causing the above companies issues in how/where they install their respective plugins...
Earlier this past year, Apple patched a security vulnerability that appeared in a limited number of their Late2012 graphic cards. As those that own those devices, we're all too aware that replacing a video card in Apple products doesn't happen. Even though that version of Mac is still supported by Apple's Catalina OS, the video cards are NOT. The patch effectively kills a lot of graphic functions the way newer graphic software is written. All of the companies I mentioned above have had serious issues with this. I won't repeat the rants from other posts regarding Apple but the reality is, there wasn't much that anybody could do except correct what they could and move forward.
At any rate, I swapped my Late2012 Mac for a new 2020 M1 Mac. And transferred everything from my old Mac to my new Mac... All of my problems persisted... I took a step back, and decided I needed to start over. I basically deleted everything off the Mac, and started methodically reinstalling all the above graphic software one by one... only installing the latest versions. Problems that I had had for years, went away. I don't want to go into detail about what the issues were, but suffice it to say, it was rooted in trying to maintain multiple versions of the same software on a single computer.
My New Year's Resolution this year (can I do that in December?) is to ONLY install and maintain the current versions of all software.