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Originally Posted by jamesleonard
With all due respect to yourself Darryl, I will need to upgrade to Catalina one day you know? After all, I need to move with the times - or get left behind!
There is a method in my madness - and I will explain. This is ALL because: I want to carry on using my 003 Control Surface - which unfortunately is 32bit.
This is the reason WHY I wish to KEEP Mojave 10.14.5 and Pro Tools 2019.5 handy - because my 003 Control Surface has EXTERNAL RECORDING CAPABILITIES incorporated within the design - it is a Mixing Desk! (my Roland TR-8S Usb connection, DOES NOT possess this capability!)
Additionally, Catalina will be 64bit and my 003 (32 bit) will not run on this!
My 003 is a brilliant, brilliant machine (it is a timeless design). I absolutely love this Legacy machine - and it is/was the ‘business’ hence, why I want to keep it in operation - by reverting back to protools 2019.5 and Mojave 10.14.5 - when I wish to use it! That is why I have bought the T2 to T3 connector.
When Avid gives the ‘all clear’ on Catalina - I will no doubt be using Pro Tools on this macOS. However, I will NOT be able to use the 003 Control Surface because it is 32 bit.
Which is OK, because… I can use the 003, by booting up in: Pro Tools 2019.5 and Mojave 10.14.5.
And that is the way I hope to get around this problem.
Btw, I also have an annual subscription with Avid. And I want to keep it that way. Otherwise, It seems pretty pointless paying a yearly subscription - if I am going to stay on Mojave.
Hahahahahahaha, I hope not musicman691!  |
Only upgrade to Catalina when you have to. There is absolutely NO reason to go for it when it drops. Remember that those who live on the bleeding edge are doomed to get cut by it. Sure some day you may need to go for Catalina but until that day - don't sweat it. Just because you have a subscription for PT doesn't mean you have to run the latest OSX. There are a lot of people here who have subs and are still on High Sierra or Sierra. I doubt there's any time soon that Avid will drop support for Mojave and until that time - don't muck with a working system.
What you say does not justify the hassle you're setting yourself up for. Said it before and I'll say it again: keep Mojave on the internal and put Catalina on the external. Especially for the reason Darryl gave about the dire consequences of the external drive possibly getting disconnected.
We're trying to save you from yourself. Like we've tried to do with larsongs but he refuses to listen to reason.
Of course you could run a dual boot system like I do. I have a 1 TB internal ssd that has OSX 10.10.5 and OSX 10.12.6 boot partitions. You should be able to do the same with what you have in that shiny new iMac. For backups I use an external spinner that also has multiple partitions and I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my internal drive to that spinner. When I'm done doing my weekly clones I disconnect that external drive. That way I have a fully isolated way of getting back to working if I have issues. THAT is what you should be doing and NOT what the mess you're thinking of weaving for yourself. There's no need to have separate drives for booting.
edit for additional:
Actually if you check my profile you'll see I too at one time had an iMac. That machine had three boot partitions so I could experiment with what worked better. And it worked a treat until the video card fried and that's a whole 'nother saga that's been detailed here.