Upgraded OS...lost programs

Hi folks I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and lost some programs.

I mean they're gone. No longer in the Applications folder.

Some of them don't work any more (like Parallels 6 is there but it doesn't work). I kinda understand that (although I don't like it). What I want to know is how/why did some applications disappear? Did anyone else experience this?

The specific applications that disappeared were ActivClient and ApproveIt. They're kinda specialized programs that work with card readers. I don't expect that too many people here have familiarity with them... but is there anyone that knows where they went?

Thank you for your help!

It should have moved them to another folder at the top level of your hard disk

Thanks Louishen,

The first place I looked (after the Applications Folder) was the "Incompatible Software" folder. They're not there either. For now I've downloaded and installed other programs to replace the ones that are missing.

What a nightmare. There are so many things about this "upgrade" that I don't like. The biggest thing is the $40 to re-install the above programs, in addition to $72 to upgrade parallels. Overall, this is turning out to be more expensive than a Windows upgrade!

You did follow thew advice to backup everything to say an external drive prior to the upgrade? If so simply use Migration Assistant to move them over.

It's hard to understand what happened to cause applications to disappear. Upgrading the OS should have no effect on your installed applications. In other words, sadly, you did something you weren't supposed to do. And it's highly doubtful that it's a problem that Apple caused within OSX. The upgrade will work fine as long as everything on your computer is where it should be.

toMACsh said:

It's hard to understand what happened to cause applications to disappear. Upgrading the OS should have no effect on your installed applications. In other words, sadly, you did something you weren't supposed to do. And it's highly doubtful that it's a problem that Apple caused within OSX. The upgrade will work fine as long as everything on your computer is where it should be.

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toMACsh, thanks, but I didn't do anything that I wasn't supposed to... and everything on my computer was where it should have been.

It's hard to understand what happened to cause applications to disappear.

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It depends. If he upgraded direct from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, then every PPC coded program would disappear. Been there done that when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.

chscag said:

It depends. If he upgraded direct from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, then every PPC coded program would disappear. Been there done that when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.

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Ah, yes, the missing information.... Good theory there. Even though I still use Leopard, I assume most people are updating every time. Probably not the best assumption.