Nextcloud legacy client 3.13.4 not working on Mac OS 10.14.6

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Hello everyone,

I have seen that there is a discussion on this topic already, but it has been closed without resolution. So I’m trying to revive it, since I also have a 2014 Macbook Air which I keep under Mac OS 10.14.6 for compatibility issues (but which anyway cannot be updated beyond OS X 10.11).

So the legacy Nextcloud desktop app 3.13.4 for Mac does not run on Mac OS 10.14.6 although I think it is supposed to - at least it was downloadable for this OS X version from the Nextcloud homepage at some point. (Now it seems this has changed on the website, it is accessible under “MacOS 11+ (legacy)”. Does this mean that Nextcloud definitely does not support OS X 10.x any more?)

Anyway, trying to launch the freshly installed legacy version of the Nextcloud desktop app gives the nonsensical error message “You have macOS 10.14.6. The application requires macOS 10.13 or later.”

Any news on this? Is there a way to contact Nextcloud directly on issues like this? (I have tried to send a message via the web interface, but have not gotten any reply.)

Thanks and kind regards,
–robert.

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I can’t give an official statement, but I would assume the answer is yes. After all, why would they put effort into supporting operating systems that have reached end-of-life? Not to mention that someone would have to keep a device around running outdated, end-of-life software just to test the client.

In addition, operating systems that are end-of-life should no longer be used for security reasons, as there are probably many known exploits by now that are no longer being patched by Apple.

And this is not a Nextcloud-exclusive thing. Most software vendors stop supporting operating systems that are no longer supported by their manufacturers after a certain grace period.