Fusion requiring osx 10.10 from october

[Anonymous]

Just received a note about fusion requiring 10.10 after october. I use it a lot and am really enjoying it. I use this machine for work which requires 10.9 specifically. Is it possible to keep the latest edition instead of upgrading automatically? What will happen as i cannot update to 10.10. 

Thanks, 

[Stuart-H]

easy solution

make a partition on the hard drive install 10.11 or 10.12 there then install fusion there

when you boot from cold just hold the opt key down and select which OS you require

both of your requirement met

Stuart

[Anonymous]

Hi Stuart, thanks for your reply. Sadly this is not my machine to do partition on and cannot be dual booted from, I understand it seems crazy as its not technically difficult. 

I was wondering would the software cease to exist once this time period ends? 

Hopefully i can continue using the oldest version. 

Cheers, 

K

[HughesTooling]

I'm afraid you're not going to be able to keep an old version, if you stay offline you could postpone an update by 30 days but when you go back on line it's going to try and update. Here's a quote from another thread that explains why you can't keep an old version.

" fusion 360 is made up of both server and client side software that must be in sync. When an update is deployed the server side software gets pushed as well as the client. So uploads and translations and an increasing number of new capability that require cloud computing will generate Fusion data. Once an update goes out these server side process will create data compatible only compatible with the new client. If we allowed long term deferral of updates this data would not work with the client and important pieces of Fusion would stop working. Translation being a big one."

Mark

[Stuart-H]

Or you could do what I do 

as as I do dev work with OS X my iMac is often running beta OS so I have a external USB hard drive with the current release of OS X on it use the opt key to select the boot OS /disk that you need 

note OS X is happy to run from a external HDD ,ok it will be a little slower 

when you are done unplug put it in your pocket the Mac is completely untouched so no worries about not being your machine , the USB HDD is now your machine 😀

Install fusion 360 on that or WHY and enjoy 

Stuart

[HughesTooling]

I wonder how long before project leopard will be released and if that would run on osx10.10 in a browser.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Some great ideas here guys, thanks for that. Haven't heard about project Leopard but that looks very interesting. Hoping that someone at Autodesk sees this and realises that some people don't have the latest OS and somehow continue to support us.