On 2016-08-14 17:43:13 +0000, "Mayayana" said:

"Savageduck" wrote

| To start with this thread has nothing to do with Windows, it has to do
| with George Kerby's failure to update a now defunct and unsupported
| application, Aperture, when he was given fair warning and the
| opportunity to do so. Had he done so, and had he followed all the
| information and warnings concerning the end of life of Aperture, there
| would have been little need for this thread, and his final updated
| edition would be running without issue on his currently updated OS X.
|

But he didn't do that. So your solution is
to scold him for not being an obedient
AppleSeed? Or to tell him that he should
buy yet more software he doesn't need, this
time from Adobe?

I am not scolding him, he can spend his $$$ any way he wants. However,
once having spent that cash he should have paid attention to the state
of the World with regard to updates and software maintenance, for what
for him were important systems. It's not as if this whole thing was a
surprise to any who were paying attention.
Even dpreview had this to say as far back as June 2014:
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5684134078/apple-to-cease-development-of-aperture

....and

they even reported on the fiasco that is "Photos", which is certainly
no Aperture replacement.
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5074008951/opinion-can-an-aperture-user-be-happy-with-apples-new-photos-software

The

answer for any serious Aperture user wanting to move on, is Lightroom 6/CC/

I'm surprised that v. 3.6 is
not still available. I would think his two
possible options would be to revert back
to the older MacOS or to find a copy of
v. 3.6. But no one has suggested either
approach. Maybe those are also things that
one can't do on a Mac? David Ritz did seem to
suggest updating Aperture, but it's not clear
from his links whether that's possible. Does
Apple just cut people off that way?

Frankly I don't see a problem with George
Kerby's logic. He had software that worked.
Newer versions brought in cloud integration
that he might not have wanted. Which gets
back to my original point:

Nope. One has a personal responsibility to ensure that your software is
functioning that means being aware of updates which can include bug
fixes. The idea is to keep software running optimally. That is an area
where Adobe is doing a very good job with updates, upgrades, and bug
fixes with its Creative Cloud, and mobile offerings.

There's simply no
excuse for Apple not supporting their product
without people having to submit to every new
update of everything.

Apple gave the World fair warning that Aperture was not going to
supported or developed for use with OS X 10.10. Where Apple failed, or
deceived Apple users was by implying the Aperture/iPhoto replacement,
"Photos" was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Needless to say, for any serious photographer that was/is a false claim.

(I'm still using Outlook Express 6, from 2001,
to write this. It works great!

....er, no it doesn't! you should see what everybody else has to deal
with when it comes to your post, complet with bad attributions.

Much better than Microsoft's later email products. The time when
one could assume new updates were improvements
passed a long time ago.)


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Regards,

Savageduck