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<blockquote data-quote="stefanmaine" data-source="post: 1839845" data-attributes="member: 197051"><p>MacOS Mojave on a 27" 2017 Retina iMac about to upgrade to Catalina. </p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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."</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>Thank you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stefanmaine, post: 1839845, member: 197051"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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