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Post your comments for Reinstalling Rosetta here

[abuerer]

Can I use this to install Rosetta with Lion?

[shavingcream]

abuerer, on 06 June 2012 - 09:53 AM, said:

Can I use this to install Rosetta with Lion?

No.

[trinigianetti]

abuerer, on 06 June 2012 - 09:53 AM, said:

Can I use this to install Rosetta with Lion?

Lion broke Rosetta. Thus no more PowerPC apps work

[gochugogi]

The old Quicken (2005-2007) is making a lot of us hang onto Snow Leopard. Hard to believe the same company created Quicken Essentials...

[RichardWagoner]

gochugogi, on 06 June 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:

The old Quicken (2005-2007) is making a lot of us hang onto Snow Leopard. Hard to believe the same company created Quicken Essentials...

You do know that Quicken 2007 has been made to run on Lion now, don't you?

[behindthecamerah3c5]

Every time I think I don't need Rosetta, some random app or specific function I need can't be performed on Lion. I keep an older Mac around for that very reason. Long may it run.

[Kentega9]

This is the reason why I bought VMware Fusion version 4.1.0 as they "forgot" to patch up the release to prevent Snow Leopard from being installed on there.

So with this version of Fusion, I am running Lion on the newest imac and whenever I need Rosetta, I can run Snow leopard in fusion 4.1.0 and everything runs perfectly including my no-longer-updated Macromedia Freehand

[Thoreau]

Quicken 2007 downloaded from Intuit imported my Quicken 2006 files, which are now running just fine on Lion 10.7.

[jimbarg]

When we say "PowerPC apps", do we also mean those that are called "Universal Binaries"?

[jimbarg]

Kentega9, on 06 June 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

This is the reason why I bought VMware Fusion version 4.1.0 as they "forgot" to patch up the release to prevent Snow Leopard from being installed on there.

So with this version of Fusion, I am running Lion on the newest imac and whenever I need Rosetta, I can run Snow leopard in fusion 4.1.0 and everything runs perfectly including my no-longer-updated Macromedia Freehand

Too bad that Apple put the "kabash" on this version of VMWare Fusion (almost as quickly as it came out). Is this version available anywhere any more?

[KPOM]

jimbarg, on 07 June 2012 - 08:02 AM, said:

When we say "PowerPC apps", do we also mean those that are called "Universal Binaries"?

No, Universal binaries will run under Lion. It is just PowerPC-only binaries that do not run.

jimbarg, on 07 June 2012 - 08:11 AM, said:

Too bad that Apple put the "kabash" on this version of VMWare Fusion (almost as quickly as it came out). Is this version available anywhere any more?

It may be difficult. However, if you can find a copy of Snow Leopard Server (perhaps on eBay) you can legally install it within a virtual machine.

This post has been edited by KPOM: 08 June 2012 - 09:37 AM

[jdouglas0841]

Just installed OS X 10.7.4 -Lion, and everything migrated perfectly from Snow Leopard, event ht e-mail settings. I just recently purchased Quicken 7, which is compatible with Lion, for $15.00 and it is working seamlessly. I downloaded it in just a few minutes. It is $15.00 well spent. Now...we will have to wait and see if Quicken will doe the same when Mountain Lion comes out a bit later this year.

[ccfman2004]

I have plenty of PowerPC games and apps that I will never be ported to Intel so no Lion or new Mac for me. Not until they bring back Rosetta.