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Utility to find non universal applications
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Oct 30, 2006, 10:38 AM
 
My new C2D just got delivered this morning. When I get home I am going to transfer everything over from my current PowerBook to it.

Is there a utility somewhere which can scour the HD on my new MBP and report back the names of all applications which are not Universal (or Intel native)?
MBP - 2.33GHz C2D, 3GB RAM, 256MB VRAM, 160GB HD
PB - 1.5GHz G4, 2GB RAM, 128MB VRAM, 80GB HD
PM - Dual 1GHzG4, 1.5GB RAM, NVidia GForce 3, 2x 80 GB HD
     
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Oct 30, 2006, 10:40 AM
 
well...you can run activity monitor and the far right column lists what type of binary each running process is (Intel or PowerPC). That's what I used when i switched from my iBook to my MacBook just to get an idea of what needed to be updated
     
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Oct 30, 2006, 11:19 AM
 
You can also run system profiler. Open the "About this Mac" menu. Then open system profiler from there. This will list all the apps on your machine and one of the columns will list PPC or Universal for each app.
     
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Oct 30, 2006, 11:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by Scott-G View Post
You can also run system profiler. Open the "About this Mac" menu. Then open system profiler from there. This will list all the apps on your machine and one of the columns will list PPC or Universal for each app.
Now that's what I'm talking about.

Cool, never noticed that tab. Thanks!
MBP - 2.33GHz C2D, 3GB RAM, 256MB VRAM, 160GB HD
PB - 1.5GHz G4, 2GB RAM, 128MB VRAM, 80GB HD
PM - Dual 1GHzG4, 1.5GB RAM, NVidia GForce 3, 2x 80 GB HD
     
   
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