macOS Catalina official version was released last week , the new version brings many exciting improvements , but also compatibility issues "discouraging" part of the original plan to upgrade the user.
Starting with this release, macOS Catalina (10.15) no longer supports 32-bit applications, this is the first only support 64-bit applications macOS version, that means that there is a considerable amount of a group of older applications will not be in the new system run.
Recently, a iOS developer macOS Catalina found inside a package called IncompatibleAppsList.bundle resource lists a total of 235 is not compatible with macOS Catalina list of applications, the resource file path for the package /Library/Apple/Library/Bundles/.
According to reports, this list is not compatible with the new system is intended to alert the user installed applications to Catalina during the installation process, the following example is a reminder:
Transmit: this version of Transmit is not compatible with this version of macOS.
It lists some noteworthy applications:
- Transmit 4.1.7
- 1Password 2.12.2
- iStats Menu 2.9
- Box Sync 4.0
- QuickBooks 2015
- SugarSync 1.0
- Default Folder X 4.3.10
- VMWare Fusion 3.1.4
- Creative Cloud 1.1.0.592
- Parallels 2.5
- ……
See the complete list: https://gist.github.com/stevemoser/a4388df17633beae5bc3fb07d38373e2
到底要不要升级到新系统呢，事实上这个改动对于近两年才使用 Mac 的用户来说影响不大，毕竟 Apple 早已在 macOS 中全面推动开发者开发 64 位应用，但如果你是一名常年使用 Mac 的老用户，那么升级之前最好查一下应用的兼容性情况（尤其是 Adobe 系应用），方法如下：
打开「关于本机」> 在「概览」里选择「系统报告」> 选择「应用程序」> 点击应用即可查看。
