* Posts by Magic

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How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

Magic

Catalina Nightmare (DO NOT upgrade)

After waiting 2 hours for the new upgrade I discovered any and all Microsoft office apps were no longer visible on my Mac and my spreadsheets and business invoices could not be opened. ok easy fix just update on the App Store. Upon attempting to open App store the app will not load and freezes issuing a crash report, after several attempts I contacted live support and with in 4 hours of troubleshooting we finally managed to get the App Store app to function only to discover that when updating the old Microsoft office suite you are in fact downloading the latest time licence subscription version which unless you pay a premium for you can not edit or amend any of your documents or files. so unless your currently using the most updated version do not download Catalina. This was just the Microsoft apps there were around 15 others ie Aperture Pro, Logic Pro wave burner Garage band and more which are also not yet comparable or require the latest version , I can't afford to re-buy any of this and feel why should I I've paid once already, so a hopefully successful solution will be to restore back to the previous OS, I hope this info helps others not to make the same MISTAKE, (Catalina sucks)