Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:09 am
Hello martenszeus,
Apple's installer for recent macOS versions will try to move the "/Hauptwerk" folder from the root of the drive to a somewhat-obscure location, breaking the Hauptwerk installation and Hauptwerk installer in the process. At the very least, *before* running the macOS installer, you would need to:
- Entirely move the "/Hauptwerk" folder from the root of the drive into the root of your macOS account's home folder (not within its 'Documents' or other sub-directories). You may need to enable Finder's options to make drives, and your home folder, visible first.
- Very carefully edit the "/Applications/Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ/InternalResources/FileLocations.FileLocations_Hauptwerk_xml" file manually in a text editor to change all references from "/Hauptwerk/" (at the root of the drive) to "/Users/[your-macos-username]/".
- Try launching Hauptwerk and make sure it's all still fully working.
[N.B. the above is absolutely not supported, and at your own risk, and may break your Hauptwerk installation and/or the installer if a mistake is made.]
That will probably avoid the macOS installer breaking the main Hauptwerk installation when run. However, I would expect that some of the Hauptwerk screens (settings screens, etc.) will have at least some cosmetic/redrawing problems on recent macOS versions, and there may be other parts of Hauptwerk v4 too that wouldn't work fully.
If you have to keep using v4 for now, I would recommend instead sticking to no later than macOS 10.13.6. If other applications need newer macOS versions then install a separate drive/partition in the computer, and put the newer macOS version on that as a completely independent OS installation, so that you can boot into either macOS version depending on which applications you need to use.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.