10.14.6 32 bit compatible?

[beacher]

Hey Guys, will OS 10.14.6 still run 32 bit applications?  I know that 10.15 won't, so. . . Thanks in advance!





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[Xairbusdriver]

Yes.
It will complain that certain apps "are not optimized", but they will still run fine. And the alerts/warnings are not constant so I'm not bothered by them. My wife, however... 

I'd say that any dev who has waited this long to update their app is probably looking for a different way to earn a living. That said, at least one well known app, Fetch, has started work on updating to 64-bits. I have already changed to another FTP app since the Fetch dev had said he would not be updating it last year.

[jchuzi]

Echoing Jim, 32-bit apps run fine in Mojave. This is a general statement only. Some apps (Photoshop CS5 comes to mind) are unstable, even though they nominally work. MS Office 2008 works but is a bit wonky.

You might want to check out https://roaringapps.com to see what they say.

[Xairbusdriver]

MS Office 2008 works but is a bit wonky.

That has nothing to do with Mojave macOS 10.14, that's just the way MS always does things their own way!

[jchuzi]

True as that might be, Office 2008 worked better in OS's previous to Mojave.

[beacher]

Well, I took a chance and updated to 10..14.6, held my breath, rebooted and fired up my bought and paid for Lightroom 6.?, which is the 32 bit application that I did not want to have to do without, and am happy to report that it runs just fine!  So, although I haven't tested a lot of the other 32 bit apps, I have no doubt that they'll run fine!   

[Paddy]

Yes - Lightroom 6.14 runs ok with Mojave. It's actually a 64-bit app, but it has various 32-bit appendages, including the installer, uninstaller and updater.

NOTE: All of those bits will not work on Catalina, and people have noted that in Catalina, they can't quit and had to force quit - which eventually corrupts the database. Someone has reported that removing all the 32-bit parts in Catalina did allow one to quit the app normally, so that may be the way forward. However, there may be other issues - I'm on Mojave on the laptop and still on High Sierra on the iMac, because I can't afford the time to deal with moving 100,000+ images into a new app (CaptureOne - which doesn't work entirely in Catalina yet, either) or concede defeat and subscribe to LR/PS (neither of which are yet entirely compatible with Catalina either as of this writing).