Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur

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Why the heck Apple kill Aperture anyway?

I&#x27;m impressed by the ingenuity of people who keep old software running just a bit longer! When Catalina first came out, I used Retroactive for iTunes. This let me get one last update out for my track joiner (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidschlachter.com&#x2F;misc&#x2F;trackconcat" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidschlachter.com&#x2F;misc&#x2F;trackconcat</a>), targeting both the new Music app and iTunes.

speaking of &quot;I miss old s&#x2F;w&quot; I miss Picasa. I do like Apples photo stuff, but I loved Picasa.

Seems like this is restricted to a few Apple applications. Is there something more generic to run older software? There was a “Swiss Army Knife” application for handling media files (mainly audio and photos? I forget) called Media Rage, by Chaotic Software. The company seems to have gone out of business (the domain is now parked with ads). Since Media Rage was 32-bit, it wouldn’t work from macOS Catalina.<p>An old article about a Media Rage update on Mac World: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;175779&#x2F;mediarage19.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;175779&#x2F;mediarage19.html</a>

So if I already converted to Apple Music and load an iTunes legacy version, will this have to duplicate the Music library?

Can this application be removed after say Aperture is working, or do it have to stay installed?<p>Also, does it produce a new application package that can be installed on other computers that doesn&#x27;t have Retroactive installed, or is Retroactive needed on each target machine?

Anyone had luck getting these apps running on macOS 14&#x2F;Sonoma?

Side topic: I wish macOS would stick to just numbers in their os updates to make it drop dead easy to recall which update and how old one is. I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of Californian geography and even if I did, that doesn’t help me remember what Big Sur was vs. Catalina

There should be an ACM award for retro-computing like this. I miss Aperture so much that it&#x27;s difficult to express.<p>I dislike photo editing deeply, but for some reason, the Aperture design just made sense to me, being a person who could never grok photoshop.

For a while in the 2000s, it seemed like Apple <i>really</i> had something special going. FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Aperture, Shake, Logic, XSan, XServe. Even their iLife and iWork suites used to compete with mainstream productivity apps. Now they&#x27;ve been really dumbed down.<p>What in the world happened?<p>(At least we have DaVinci Resolve now... but it just doesn&#x27;t have the finesse that Apple pro apps once had.)

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