It is extremely unlikely that Apple will "fix" this. It has been known for months that support for PowerPC architecture applications would be dropped from Lion. It was in fact dropped from Snow Leopard's default install, though you could install Rosetta. You clearly have several options ... 1. revert to your back up (presumably Snow Leopard) 2. install Snow Leopard on a separate bootable drive or partition and choose which to boot up from. 3. install a virtualized Snow Leopard as a guest OS in a virtualization product (check your licence) 4. install DOS or Windows as a guest OS in a virtualization product and use SpeedBMD/WinBMD 5. install Ubuntu (for instance) as a guest OS in a virtualization product and use linBMD Anyway, you don't need MacBMD to transcribe. The submission format is CSV text, so any text processor application is adequate, just not as glitsy. I've just tried and linBMD works using VirtualBox running Fedora on my Mac. Mark -- On 22 Jul 2011, at 12:01, Tony McHugh wrote: > Hi List, > I upgraded to Lion last night and now find the same problem. I am able to keep contributing as I have plenty of work correcting submissions from lapsed members of my syndicate, however I will not be able to do any new transcribing until there is a new version of MacBMD made available. The majority of Mac transcribers will not have this 'pleasure' of correcting others files and may be lost to the Project. I very much doubt that any fix to the OS will surface and consequently I think it is essential that a new version of MacBMD is made available as soon as possible. I realise there will be no overnight solution to this as we need someone to volunteer but it would be great if we knew that something was underway. > > Tony McHugh > Free Loaders Syndicate > > On 22/07/2011, at 18:54 , Lisa Siddall wrote: > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rod Stott [mailto:rodandjostott@mac.com] >> Sent: 22 July 2011 08:43 >> To: Siddall Lisa >> Subject: MacBMD, problems with OS 10.7 "Lion" upgrade >> >> Hi Lisa, >> >> I have just upgraded my Apple iMac to the latest operating system, >> OS 10.7 "Lion" and found that the system will no longer run any of the older >> programs that used the original "PowerPC" processor of which MacBMD is one! >> It is early days yet and there may be a work around possible but from my >> correspondence with MacBMDs creator when I was looking into adding the Post >> 1946 registration codes I don't not hold out much hope. He didn't seem to >> want to revisit the software at all and that is what prompted me to devise a >> "work around" solution. So in the short term I would strongly advise any >> Mac users not to upgrade to OS 10.7 "Lion" until we have established if >> Apple are prepared to produce a fix to this new Operating System to allow >> the old programs to be used. The only other solution is to have a new >> version of the software produced that will run on the current Intel >> processors that the newer iMacs use. In my case I have another Apple >> computer I can use in the interim that has not been upgraded but other >> FreeBMD users may not be so fortunate! >> >> Please forward this to the FeeBMD website and any other Mac >> syndicates. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Rod