#Need help looking for old software versions

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topaz pollen
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Hello! I recently updated my 2015 Macbook Pro from Catalina to Monterey and discovered, to my horror and surprise, that most of the applications I use regularly are not automatically on the new OS, and my Mac is too old to download the apps. This is bad because I have a lot of .pages files and .band files I was hoping to continue being able to use. Could I have some help on what to do, and/or where to look for older versions of some apps? I've looked online but most of the older versions (like from oldversion.com or something like that) are from 2000s era and are too old for my computer (or they just send me back to the newest versions of the apps, which then aren't allowed to be downloaded on my computer). I'm looking for an older version of Apple Suite products (Pages, Numbers, etc) and Garageband; a way to convert those files into a different program I could view would also be great.

mystic maple
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Waaaait

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So what you're saying is that your MacBook doesn't support Monterey

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That you installed Monterey on it anyways

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And that it doesn't let you install any apps?

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Okay, so apparently
You might be able to access the pages files via iCloud (on what seems to be the online version of Pages)

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For the Garageband stuff... Apparently Audacity might be able to open those?

topaz pollen
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Ah, thank you! I'd had a notification for a software update to Monterey for a while. I assumed it would support it since it kept alerting me that it was ready to download! It runs some software but expected me to download others, and stuff like Pages and Garageband had apparently updated too far for me to just download them on the App Store.

mystic maple
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Waaaaaaaaaait

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According to Apple, 2015 MacBook Pros are supposed to be supported

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Late 2014 Mac mini too even?!

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Hmm

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Maybe iWork and Garageband gave up supporting these?

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Riiight
Because of the ARM transition
The App Store might no longer offer the x64 versions of the apps

mystic maple
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Both of these should still have a compatible MacOS version