Big Sur on an Intel Macintosh

I just took a tech support call from a customer who has just installed Igor 8.04 on an older Intel Mac with Big Sur 11.4 running on it. They report that the Packages menus are missing, but a little probing tells us that the installation went fine, the contents of the Igor Pro Folder are all there and the right places. This is NOT a case of "translocation".

I am wondering if anyone of you folks running Big Sur has seen any problems like this.

The Packages menus exist in quite a number places within Igor's menus, for instance Data->Packages, Analysis->Packages, Windows->New->Packages, Graph->Packages, just to mention a few.

I would be interested in negative and positive responses, along with brief mention of OS version and hardware info.

Thank you!

Hi,

IP 8.05B01

Packages menu shows up in:

Data, Analysis and Windows as expected

System Details:

Big Sur 11.5.2

Model Name: iMac

  Model Identifier: iMac20,1

  Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 3.8 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 8

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 16 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

  Memory: 40 GB

  System Firmware Version: 1554.140.20.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.14759.0.1,0)

  Serial Number (system): C02CT10RPN5W

  Hardware UUID: AD90A443-615D-5124-8BCB-E8A2FE55041C

  Provisioning UDID: AD90A443-615D-5124-8BCB-E8A2FE55041C

  Activation Lock Status: Enabled

 

Andy

I'm running Big Sur 11.5.2 on a late 2013 Mac Pro 3.5 GHz 6-core Intel and on a 2019 MacBook Pro. Igor 8.04 (and 9 beta) are fine, Packages menu shows up where it should.

I think Igor installation preceded updating to Big Sur and I don't recall updating IP8 since upgrading to Big Sur. For IP9 I have upgraded the beta several times and got the translocation problem for the first time (only on one machine) last week - do I win a prize?

In reply to by sjr51

sjr51 wrote:

For IP9 I have upgraded the beta several times and got the translocation problem for the first time (only on one machine) last week - do I win a prize?

The translocation problem last week was from me forgetting to notarize the 9.00B09 installer. I did test it on Catalina and the OS gave no indication that it wasn't notarized (it should have complained).

That's what I get for trying to get my kids ready for camp in the middle of building a release.

Once I discovered the problem I notarized the installer and uploaded that, so at least the fix was simple.

Very funny!

The two sentences should be read independently. The fact that neither of you sees a problem provides some measure of relief, but fails to solve the customer's problem. On the other hand, if you DID have the problem, I probably still wouldn't have a solution, but I would be more anxious...

And perhaps you are implying that I should have used a comma- "Thanks to both of you, the problem remains a mystery." :)

Punctuation saves lives:

Let's eat Grandma.

Let's eat, Grandma.