What does HackerNews think of Retroactive?

Never fear! You can still run it and a few other apps:

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

“ Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.”

>FCP 7 stopped working with macOS High Sierra

It works thanks to this https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

If you only need to run Aperture I've had good success using Retroactive[1] on my M1 Max machine running Monterrey to patch it to run under Rosetta. Almost everything works fine except anything tied to iCloud and some of the video and slideshow features. It's been great in letting me access my older photos which have adjustments that I don't want to re-create in Lightroom.

It will copy over the missing frameworks and modify the app so the OS will run it even though it's unsupported, if you're interested there is a technical breakdown that goes into detail[2].

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

[2] https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret...

For all kinds of reasons, I hate what they did there, abandoning Aperture functionality — there remains zero other software that fills what Aperture did for me. Even though Capture One and Adobe Lightroom Classic can both import from it to a degree:

https://learn.captureone.com/blog-posts/migrating-apple-aper...

That said, Aperture could still open an Aperture library using the final versions of Aperture up until Mojave. So from the time Aperture was discontinued, Aperture itself worked through six versions of MacOS, until Catalina.

As of Catalina, Aperture no longer ran native[1], but Photos itself could still open and migrate those libraries (note: I have not tried in Big Sur). While Photos didn’t recognize everything initially, before Aperture became unsupported, Photos did eventually handle tags, non-destructive edits, JPEG+RAW pairs, referenced files, and albums.

Apple eventually got the parity enough I was able to move a quarter million photos over into Photos, and haven’t needed to re-open Aperture in a couple years. While I haven’t needed it, I did test the software linked in [1] below, and it worked great.

What to do if you’re on Catalina or newer, and need to migrate Aperture to Photos: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209594

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1. NOTE: Open Aperture on Big Sur or Catalina using ‘Retroactive’: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

From README: ”All Aperture features should be available except for playing videos, exporting slideshows, Photo Stream, and iCloud Photo Sharing. If RAW photos can't be opened, you need to reprocess them.”

Read more: https://petapixel.com/2019/10/29/this-app-lets-you-use-apple...

Retroactive will allow you to run iTunes on Catalina or Big Sur: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

(caveat: I have not personally tested it on Big Sur, but it's been working well for me on Catalina)

There's a fix tool/hack to run Aperture on Catalina, called Retroactive.

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

It also works for iTunes and iPhoto. Sadly it won't fix any of the other known Catalina issues, of course! ;)

Have you tried this [1] to enable XCode?

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

Maybe this one [1] help you enable Xcode 11.4?

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

There's a Mac app called Retroactive [1] that enables you to run iTunes (and Aperture) on macOS Catalina.

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

Nothing here. It’s been as easy an upgrade as I can remember. My company’s IT team kept sending emails not to upgrade but I haven’t had an issue. I think they mostly were tired of dealing with early release headaches from Chrome not asking for permission to control the whole screen for sharing. Google Meet worked just fine with Safari so I never noticed that problem.

I do however dislike Music. I added iTunes back with Retroactive

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

Here you go! https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

As an aside, the author's "Technical Deep Dive" is worth a read: https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret...