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MacOS Mojave on a 27" 2017 Retina iMac about to upgrade to Catalina.
I ran Apple>About This Mac>System Report>Software>Applications, and discovered about forty apps that failed the 64-bit test. Of those, I use only two (to my knowledge), Word and Excel, which I will replace with a word processor and a spreadsheet app from SoftMaker's Free Office, which I have already downloaded and installed.
I do not recognize the names of any of the other apps that failed the 64-bit test. About twenty of them have "Microsoft" as a first name (like Microsoft Database Daemon, Microsoft Query), which I take to mean they are associated with Word and/or Excel, and so are expendable. Among the others are apps I have never heard of, nor, as far as I know, ever used; among them are names like "Equations Editor," "GoTo Opener," "Ink Server," "MyDay," "Solver," "Quick Look."
Question: Should I do anything about the 32-bit apps before upgrading to Catalina? For example, should I delete them all, one by one (I have AppZapper)? If I do not, will the upgrade process generate a torrent of error messages? Or are some of them apps which are part of Mojave, and necessary to the upgrade process? Is this an issue I should be concerned about?
Thank you.
I ran Apple>About This Mac>System Report>Software>Applications, and discovered about forty apps that failed the 64-bit test. Of those, I use only two (to my knowledge), Word and Excel, which I will replace with a word processor and a spreadsheet app from SoftMaker's Free Office, which I have already downloaded and installed.
I do not recognize the names of any of the other apps that failed the 64-bit test. About twenty of them have "Microsoft" as a first name (like Microsoft Database Daemon, Microsoft Query), which I take to mean they are associated with Word and/or Excel, and so are expendable. Among the others are apps I have never heard of, nor, as far as I know, ever used; among them are names like "Equations Editor," "GoTo Opener," "Ink Server," "MyDay," "Solver," "Quick Look."
Question: Should I do anything about the 32-bit apps before upgrading to Catalina? For example, should I delete them all, one by one (I have AppZapper)? If I do not, will the upgrade process generate a torrent of error messages? Or are some of them apps which are part of Mojave, and necessary to the upgrade process? Is this an issue I should be concerned about?
Thank you.
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