Re: EZproxy and MAC OS (Catalina)

Hi,

at the moement we warn (library) users to update to Mac OS 10.15 
(Catalina) without checking if there are any 32 bit applications the 
need futurely.

The update to Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina) cause often a lot of tears at the 
users because Apple do a hard cut and with Catalina NO 32 bit 
applications work any longer. (A fact the users do not know - they only 
want to be up to date. ) ONLY 64 bit applications will work on Catalina. 
Thus old Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc or Endnote 
plug-ins are not working any more (Did I mentiond the lake of tears?).

Users can check their applications by Go64 program from 
https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/ (download:
https://www.stclairsoft.com/cgi-bin/dl.cgi?GO ) before they update.

All  32 bit programs the Go64 lists, will not work after an update!

Maybe a 32 bit plug-in or antivirus component cause the touble locally.

Greetings

Andreas



> Hello,
>
> IÂ’ve had a report of a patron at our library who upgraded to Mac OS 
> 10.15 (Catalina), and now she is not able to use EZproxy. The error 
> she gets is something about WorldCat not being able to connect (sorry, 
> IÂ’m getting this info second-hand from the service desk staff). She 
> has tried both Chrome and Safari.
>
> Has anyone encountered patrons using Catalina not being able to use 
> EZproxy?
>
> Thank you,
>
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