@nate, I am setting up a brand new iMac and would prefer not installing Rosetta on it. However, until I have Negative Lab Pro up and running I cannot be complete; this is one of the most important apps for me.
Any idea how long before an Apple Silicon version is available, even if it’s a beta?
Unfortunately, I will need to ship the old Mac to Apple in the next week or so.
@tadtadd , I understand your want to run the new Mac without Rosetta2 for whatever your reason might be.
What I did to prepare for Rosetta free use is this
Keeping photos and installers separate speeds up the migration and helps to manage drive space. I use Carbon Copy Cloner to move things to and from separate volumes. CCC can copy with checksum verification. It takes some additional time and provides data integrity.
Applying the concept listed above, the Mac I use for testing has a shared volume (A) and one volume each for macOS 11, 12, 13, 14, 15…and I just deleted the volume for Sequoia with Rosetta. I also use (A) for apps that can live in such conditions. Caveat: APFS has evolved over the last few years and one is well advised to not use disk utility too liberally in recovery mode because it has the potential to mess things up.
That would be a bold move! Thanks for putting together a solid punch list.
For now, I’ll sit tight for a few days and see what other things I start finding as I move into the new machine. Already TurboTax is a Rosetta offender: I’ll just do my taxes on the old machine before sending it off.
If I find too many other things that need Rosetta I’ll just have to bite the bullet and install it. If I can still avoid it though, and NLP takes a few more weeks, I suspect I can hang back until the release before doing negative scanning, though that will be a challenge!
It’s easier to stop shooting in the dead of winter, but springtime is coming fast.
Looking forward to the release not only because of Rosetta, but also because I face the same Lightroom issue that has forced many of us to revert to an older version of LR–that should be fixed in the new release.
I have noticed that the multipass option can’t be saved in 3.1. Am I doing something wrong?
I have been using the 3.1 beta for slide processing over the last few weeks and it is an amazing improvement. I have slides going back to the 1950s, some very badly discolored and NLP 3.1 has in many cases made miraculous recoveries. I am rescanning all my hundreds of slides with the beta 3.1. (All this is on a Windows machine). BRAVO Nate!
Here’s an example.
The photo was taken in 1956 and the slide has a heavy cast as can be seen at left above. Framed between to layers of fairly thick glass, the slide has been well protected, but some changes that look like they have crept inwards from the edges show up. I remember the slide being underexposed and some additional adjustments could improve the overall appearance. With all the details hidden in the shadows, the slide could probably profit from exposure bracketing HDR.
Can’t say what the film was, I’d have to open the frame for that - and I’m not inclined to do so.
Hello,Nate.
Could you tell me the approximate release date for the full version?
I am also waiting 
… so long…
Wedding photographer here… just wanted to say having the Match feature back with the 3.1 beta has been amazing. I’ll often have several images under identical conditions that the match feature is nailing for consistency. Cheers!
scanning my first roll with the beta, the match feature is indeed so soo good! also the problem with the nil-value thing for intel macs seems to be worlds better. thanks so much!!
