Pat Stanford
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If you are using the stock workspaces, nearly none of the keyboard shortcuts changed between 2023 and 2024.
If you are using a custom workspace with lots of custom shortcuts, then you probably need to either update your workspace or even better recreate it in 2024.
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Uninstalling does not change the number of Activations, so it really does not matter if you uninstall before changing the hard drive.
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Yes, Redshift version is different and no longer delays.
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Juan. Did you mean NOW available instead of not?
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Log into your account (Customer Portal from the Help menu) and you should be able to download what you need.
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VW2018 is the oldest version of VW that will run on OS 10.13. VW2021 is the most current version that will run.
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Check the article specific to VW2022.
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Lost hardware I can't help with. 😉
Good luck.
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I just added .MCD extensions to all the files and they opened in VW2022.
Try that and see if they won't open in your VW12.5 version.
If not let me know and I can try and install an old version that will let me export them back to 12.5 format. Currently VW can only export back 5 versions.
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Can you post or email me one of the files that say VW and one of the "detail" files to take a look at?
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It appears that the version is listed twice, and it appears that upgraded files show the original version of the file and the last version the file was saved in.
Here is the beginning of the header line in a file that I started in VW12 and was last saved in VW2017.
∏î VW12.0.1 VW22.0.3
I believe the numbering is:
VW9 VW9 VW10 VW10 VW11 VW11 VW12 VW12 VW13 VW2008 VW14 VW2009 VW15 VW2010 VW16 VW2011 VW17 VW2012 VW18 VW2013 VW19 VW2014 VW20 VW2015 VW21 VW2016 VW22 VW2017 VW23 VW2018 VW24 VW2019 VW25 VW2020 VW26 VW2021 VW27 VW2022-
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If you open the file (or better a copy of the file so you don't mess up the original) in a text editor, somewhere in the first line will be a text string something like. VW17.xx.xx. We can use that to tell you the version of VW that the file was saved as.
Actually I just checked an old file. If it is VW10 it should say Vectorworks 10 in the first line of the file. Vectorworks 9 for that version.
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The Legacy Compatibility chart only shows VW2015 running through MacOS 10.11.
I would hesitate to run it on 10.14 in any type of important environment.
I have never heard your statement of a version of VW running better on a machine which had the operating system upgraded after the OS install. VW does not have deep hooks into the OS. It is just an application.
The legacy compatibility chart is available here:
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I don't think it is so much a case of planned obsolescence as it is a case of we want to go in this direction and if it breaks something then oh well on Apple's part.
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The main reason for the difference in compatibility is a difference in attitude between Apple and Microsoft. Microsoft makes backward compatibility an absolute priority. That means that newer versions of Windows will support older versions of Vectorworks.
Apple on the other hand cares less about backward compatibility and more about moving the Mac platform forward. From version to version of the operating system them keep making changes that break older versions of Vectorworks. Vectorworks has decided that they are better off spending the engineering resources on making VW better rather than making older versions run on newer versions of the Mac OS. Especially as they are advocating for users to subscribe to Service Select where the newer versions are included in the annual subscription.
Apples changes over the last couple of years have been especially bad about breaking older software.
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I think you are going to have to contact customer support directly. The forum is for User to User support and none of us have any way to look at your account or the download server to see what is going on.