[Frameworks] Mac OS Catalina

Fri Jan 10 18:35:32 UTC 2020

Yes, they are tech companies who are trying to sell things under the guise
that it helps your creativity.  They are criminal in the way that all
wealthy people and companies under capitalism are criminal.  Also remember,
that Apple is trying to get everyone to move things to the Cloud, and then
they can charge you for using their cloud.

First, to help others before they run into this, there are several general
rules before updating an Operating System.
1. Always backup everything to an external hard drive
2. Always backup everything to a second external hard drive
And ideally,
3. If on a Mac, use Time Machine regularly so you have a third backup.
Disconnect it before upgrading the OS (reconnect it only when the new OS is
working to your liking)
4. In general, always have all your media on at least two separate hard
drives always, because all hard drives die at some point.  Never have your
media only on your computer.

Then
If your system is working for you, DON'T update the OS, no matter how many
times they encourage you to.  (I¹m still running El Capitan)
And if you think you want to update the OS, first look around online to see
what issues & problems people have had when changing to that OS.
People have had a lot of issues with Catalina.  For one thing, it doesn¹t
let you play media in many older codecs.

This is an important issue.  Again, the Catalina update has made it not
possible to see media files with older codecs.  Read this page at length:

https://larryjordan.com/blog/important-dont-lose-access-to-older-media/

"NOTE: To be very clear, Apple confirmed that ³macOS Mojave ‹ including all
dot releases of this operating system ‹ will be
the last major version of macOS to support the legacy 32-bit codecs
identified in this article.²
"You may have seen the ominous warning in Final Cut about legacy media.
Apple released an update to their KnowledgeBase website which includes MUCH
more detail on what codecs are affected and which ones are not."
Here¹s the link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209000

For helping with this issue, have you spent time in Apple Forums asking this
question, and checking other google searches asking this question?  You are
probably not the first person to have this issue.  Are the files actually
gone (have you searched your hard drive, in your library, etc), or are you
not able to access them through the pathway or program that you had been
using?  

Here are some discussions with different answers:
First, from the Larry Jordan thread above:
"I recently migrated to Catalina, and am one of those who didn¹t have my eye
on this upcoming problem. Once in the 64-bit Catalina world, I can no longer
open older codec MOV files, even in Compressor, and therefore am having
trouble figuring out how to convert them. Do you have any suggestions for
how to address this now, without having to revert my entire OS to 32-bit or
create a whole additional partition on the machine? Thanks!²
³Laurence:  SmileŠ I¹ve been expecting your email since I first started
writing about how Catalina is making older media inaccessible a year ago.
However, there¹s hope! Check out the latest version of Kyno (1.7) from
LessPain Software. It can convert legacy media even after you¹ve updated to
Catalina. (https://lesspain.software/kyno/) ³ ‹ Larry
³Just when I think I understand Catalina I read a tweet or article that
confuses meŠ  So there¹s no longer a Macintosh HD > Library > QuickTime
folder with .components, correct? I don¹t have access to a machine with
Catalina to look.²
"That folder and the components it contains is still there. What isn¹t there
is support for older 32-bit codecs.²

Apparently Premiere, and possibly Avid, can still open the older media,
maybe.

These are generally dealing with documents not media files:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250742021
https://www.doyourdata.com/mac-data-recovery/recover-lost-files-after-upgrad
e-to-macos-catalina.html
https://iboysoft.com/mac-data-recovery/recover-lost-data-after-macos-update.
html
https://www.stellarinfo.com/article/recover-files-after-mac-catalina-upgrade
.php

Some things that come up are in the first discussion thread above are:

"I just saw a new folder on my desktop titled Relocated Items evidently
created by the upgrade containing the missing data. The 'what are relocated
item' document indicates missing files/folders are in a location
incompatible with macOS security settings.  Am I to understand that I can no
longer create a folder on my HD?²
"No, you can¹t. In Catalina, the system is a separate, read-only volume. You
can't create folders on the top level of the drive.²
"Thanks Luis, for a moment I thought I was really screwed.  Can I reasonably
assume that I can move the contents of the relocated item folder to any
place I want?²
"Yes, you can move them and place them in any convenient place.²

Do you see a folder like that?  If so, move it first to an external drive or
two, then to a useful place on your computer.  But you may wish to uninstall
Catalina and reinstall Mojave, which is probably difficult.

Another question leads to this:
"Try restarting in Safe Mode. Can you open the documents in Safe Mode?
If you can open in Safe Mode, Restart normally again. See if it got fixed.
If not, please run the diagnostic tool Etrecheck and post its full report
here.
If you can't open the documents even in Safe Mode, there is either a problem
with the drive or with permissions.
Select the Documents folder, press Command-I and post a screenshot of the
permissions part at the bottom of the window.²

Best of luck!

Adam

On 1/10/20, 6:58 AM, "FrameWorks on behalf of Dominic Angerame"
<frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com on behalf of
dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ty, for some reason Premier 2020 opened one fileŠwe have no control over what
> these software folks do to us. It is almost criminal if not unethical and no
> regard for medium itself and those that use it for creativity.
> 
> 
> d
> 
>>  On Jan 10, 2020, at 6:56 AM, Joan Hawkins <jchawkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>  what a drag!  I¹m sorry I can¹t help but wanted to send sympathy. Joan
>>  
>>  
>>>  On Jan 10, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>  
>>>  Hi I lost all my media and quick time files with this upgrade to Catalina.
>>> Anyone have any idea how I can retrieve them.
>>>  
>>>  Thanks much
>>>  
>>>  Dominic
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