Long story short: I need to reinstall FCP 7 so I can help a client while they transition to Premiere Pro (and need to refresh my memory of that software), but I've upgraded almost every Mac at my disposal to Mojave!
I was planning on installing one of the older versions of OSX I have on disc to an external drive that I've partitioned, then boot from that and use FCP7 that way; I have Leopard and Snow Leopard (upgrade) on DVD. Unfortunately I've run into these issues:
**EDIT** I realized that my Mac probably came with El Cap or later so Leopard will not work. Can I use Recovery Disk mode to install the original software on an external drive?
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I was planning on installing one of the older versions of OSX I have on disc to an external drive that I've partitioned, then boot from that and use FCP7 that way; I have Leopard and Snow Leopard (upgrade) on DVD. Unfortunately I've run into these issues:
- The Leopard installer demands a restart, and no matter if I set the startup disk to the Leopard DVD my MacBook Pro (2014) will default to Mojave on restart.
- None of the other OSX versions will show up in my previous purchases in the Mojave app store.
- The version of El Capitan on the App Store will not download; it tries to connect to the Software Update panel in System Prefs instead. Seems like it's only going to work with Macs that don't already have Mojave installed.
**EDIT** I realized that my Mac probably came with El Cap or later so Leopard will not work. Can I use Recovery Disk mode to install the original software on an external drive?
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