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nickpugh

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I need some help. I am running a really old piece of software for sign writing. Is there any way of running OS Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro 2013 Trash Can? It is designed for Snow Leopard which I had on a pre retina IMac. 2 of these machine have now broken down, so I want to go back to Mac Pro's I have 2 Trash cans running Mojave, so I do not have to go to cloud based Adobe products. Alternatively, I need to get OS Mojave to recognise a Sentinal Hasp Security Dongle that the software needs. The software loads onto Mojave but it cannot see the dongle. Can anyone help me?
 
It's not designed for Snow Leopard. Won't run it. You probably won't have any issues with software or hardware made for SL with 10.9 Mavericks, which this Mac came with originally
 
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Irritatatingly, the software loads perfectly on to Mojave on the Mac Pro, it is the security hasp dongle software that does not get recognised. If I could get this Hasp key seen by Mojave, the software will work.
 
Try with Mavericks or via a VM (you need to download Snow Leopard Server, normal 10.6 won't run with a VM unless hacked)
 
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