Apparently my CanoScan driver won’t work on 10.6 without Rosetta. I’m not buying a new scanner so before I install Rosetta are there any reasons why I shouldn’t? Caveats?
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On 10 Jun 2011, at 01:58, Todd wrote:
Apparently my CanoScan driver won’t work on 10.6 without Rosetta. I’m not buying a new scanner so before I install Rosetta are there any reasons why I shouldn’t? Caveats?
Save the fact that 10.7 Lion drops all support for Rosetta, there’s no harm in installing it on Snow Leopard. I’ve been running it on my MacBook Pro to maintain life support for some of my regular apps for ages.
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Are you sure? What scanner do you have? I have the LiDE 30 and I run it under Snow Leopard without Rosetta. I’ve managed to keep Rosetta off this Mac as long as I’ve owned it.
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On 10 Jun 2011, at 13:44, Joe Muscara wrote:
Are you sure? What scanner do you have? I have the LiDE 30 and I run it under Snow Leopard without Rosetta. I’ve managed to keep Rosetta off this Mac as long as I’ve owned it.
Hi Joe!
I have an LiDE 80, and even though I use VueScan I have to have the Canon drivers installed, which are resolutely PPC. I have always managed to pick scanners that are never supported natively by the OS, too.
It seems there are varying flavours of support from Canon over their scanners.
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On 10 June 2011 14:04, Heather Kavanagh email@hidden wrote:
On 10 Jun 2011, at 13:44, Joe Muscara wrote:
Are you sure? What scanner do you have? I have the LiDE 30 and I run it
under Snow Leopard without Rosetta. I’ve managed to keep Rosetta off this
Mac as long as I’ve owned it.Hi Joe!
I have an LiDE 80, and even though I use VueScan I have to have the Canon
drivers installed, which are resolutely PPC. I have always managed to pick
scanners that are never supported natively by the OS, too.It seems there are varying flavours of support from Canon over their
scanners.Heather
Doesn’t Rosetta just run when required - i.e. it’s part of the OS and
doesn’t require installation? I’ve never knowingly installed it but have a
number of PPC programs I use regularly under 10.6, including Freehand MX and
Canoscan (also for a Lide 80).
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On 10 Jun 2011, at 14:35, Roger Houghton wrote:
Doesn’t Rosetta just run when required - i.e. it’s part of the OS and
doesn’t require installation?
You are correct in that it runs transparently when you launch a PPC application. However, it’s not a standard part of the 10.6.x installation. It’s offered as an optional installation when you update the OS.
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Thanks, Heather. I may have not noticed or it installed itself when
upgrading the OS. Seems it’s only a 2MB file anyway. There’s an overlong
discussion about it here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2127723?start=0&tstart=0
Roger
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On 10 Jun 2011, at 14:35, Roger Houghton wrote:
Doesn’t Rosetta just run when required - i.e. it’s part of the OS and
doesn’t require installation?You are correct in that it runs transparently when you launch a PPC
application. However, it’s not a standard part of the 10.6.x installation.
It’s offered as an optional installation when you update the OS.Heather
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I have a LiDE 80 and it will definitely not run under SL without Rosetta. In any case I enabled Rosetta and the driver works as expected. I also have a couple Terminal commands to disable/enable Rosetta should I want to. Not uninstall it, just switch it off/on.
Todd
What scanner do you have? I have the LiDE 30 and I run it under Snow Leopard without Rosetta.
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You’re fine using Rosetta. I use it to run some old video games and other goofy apps on my MacBook Pro. Runs just fine and doesn’t conflict with anything.
I am surprised Lion will not support it, but I would suspect that they are going to have some form of capability mode like Windows 7.
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At 18:38 -0400 19/6/11, Shane wrote:
You’re fine using Rosetta. I use it to run some old video games and
other goofy apps on my MacBook Pro. Runs just fine and doesn’t
conflict with anything.I am surprised Lion will not support it, but I would suspect that
they are going to have some form of capability mode like Windows 7.
The general tone on Mac mailing lists is that Apple are trying to
drop all support for older kit and software. If you want to run old
software you’ll need an old machine. The higher price of Apple kit
used to be offset by the fact that it lasts longer.
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We could just run a copy of snow leopard in Parallels.
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At 17:16 -0400 20/6/11, Shane wrote:
We could just run a copy of snow leopard in Parallels.
Your SL licence prohibits that unless it’s the server version, but
people say that it works.
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It works fine. I keep a few clean VM copies of my own snow leopard for software testing and a 10GB Snow Leopard install disk partition for the big emergencies.
If you are ever doing any kind of software writing; test the software in a Virtual system first. This way if you do something really bad you are not trying to do a system restore or doing a full reinstall.
Back to subject:
I figure someone in the server community has to be working on a program fix right now. There has to be a lot of server software that is still in use that would have to be updated for Lion and its just not commercially viable to update them all.
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