With the demise of Rosetta in 10.7 Lion, is there some way to find out what PPC code stuff is on one's Mac that might still be in use with various apps or the OS etc.??
ie: some plug-ins and files etc. do not show "Intel" or "PPC" when doing a Get Info, so how does one find out??
Thanks Dennis but I had already tried that and unfortunately not all items are listed, especially various plugins etc., and others that are listed but without any "kind" listed.
A lot of those without any kind listing are Adobe stuff and plugins - surprise, surprise in a sarcastic tone.
Apple Menu -> About This Mac -> More Info -> Software/Applications, then click on the "Kind" column to sort by architecture, and scroll down to find (if any) the PowerPC applications on your computer.
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When I do this, all I get is a big empty box that says "No information found." I've tried View->Refresh. It's set on View->Full Profile. Everything else in System Profiler seems to be working, except the Software Applications display. Wierd...
This is on a year-old iMac 21.5" with 10.6.6
The only thing I know for certain that I still use that requires Rosetta is Appleworks... I've been trying to switch to Pages & Numbers, but I still like Appleworks for it's Drawing mode.
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Are you sure that you're selecting 'Applications' under the 'Software' heading with its disclosure pointing down in System Profiler??
Yup, as an avid user of ClarisWorks->AppleWorks, its life will come to its end of life with Lion OS 10.7, just like my well modified Eudora 6.2.4 would, so guess which "new and improved" and latest Mac OS I won't be using for daily use.
Besides I haven't seen any real 'gotta-have' improvements that I would need for my Mac usage.
I have to say that the complaints about Apple dropping Rosetta are a bit much. OSX has been all about streamlining in the past few releases. What a better way to streamline than to get rid of support for older architectures?
Also, AppleWorks was end-of-life'd in 2007, and Eudora 6.2.4 came out in 2006. I don't think removing support for 4- and 5-year old software that wasn't exactly flying off the shelves at that time is something you can hold against Apple.
I do feel your pain, but I think it's time to let go and upgrade. Or don't get Lion.
I'm actually loving all the little new features that are coming. I'm not sure what people are expecting - we are not going to see huge jumps like we have in the past. Apple has created the best operating system and continues to refine it. These new features are awesome and I look forward to the speed increases and productivity increases that may come with Lion.
Rosetta aside, from the other things I've seen so far about Lion, I'll be in no hurry to upgrade at any rate. I don't like the direction it's taking, based on what I've seen so far.
I do remember when I bought the 10.6 upgrade, that Rosetta was a separate download and I had tried to avoid using it. I bought the iWork '09 and I have migrated all of my spreadsheets into Numbers. I know Pages can open Appleworks letters as well, so for me it's just the Appleworks Drawings that I'm worried about. I don't know / don't remember if Pages can handle Appleworks Drawings... but I'd sure like to see something from Apple that would replace that function. Maybe iWork '11 will have a 'Drawings' component? (Well, I can hope, at least.)
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Are you sure that you're selecting 'Applications' under the 'Software' heading with its disclosure pointing down in System Profiler??
I'm definitely looking in the Applications option under 'Software'. I wonder if the system profiler depends on spotlight to list all the applications? I've completely disabled and shut down spotlight as it's been utterly useless to me. That might me why I get the 'No Information Found' thing.
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I have to say that the complaints about Apple dropping Rosetta are a bit much. OSX has been all about streamlining in the past few releases. What a better way to streamline than to get rid of support for older architectures?
Also, AppleWorks was end-of-life'd in 2007, and Eudora 6.2.4 came out in 2006. I don't think removing support for 4- and 5-year old software that wasn't exactly flying off the shelves at that time is something you can hold against Apple.
I do feel your pain, but I think it's time to let go and upgrade. Or don't get Lion....
Hmmm... I haven't seen any posts or "complaints about Apple dropping Rosetta", but I have seen some excellent posts and some cautions for what a user might miss if they update to the upcomming 10.7 Lion OS.
No compaints, but a cautionarly warning for those that might be affected.
Isn't that what this list and forum is all about???
Rosetta aside, from the other things I've seen so far about Lion, I'll be in no hurry to upgrade at any rate. I don't like the direction it's taking, based on what I've seen so far.
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I'm definitely looking in the Applications option under 'Software'. I wonder if the system profiler depends on spotlight to list all the applications? I've completely disabled and shut down spotlight as it's been utterly useless to me. That might me why I get the 'No Information Found' thing.
I guess it could be the reason and a good guess as to what stoplight might be or not doing with it's snooping and any failure to list the installed applications etc.
Maybe a good Mac Terminal guru could provide or post some command to use to list all the various installed PowerPC stuff some way to find out what actual PPC code stuff is actually installed on one's Mac.
For me Spotlight remains the major issue. This will be the fourth generation for Spotlight and as far as I can tell there will still no way to disable just the content indexing portion of Spotlight. If you use multiple drives and copy significant numbers of files, Spotlight remains more of an impediment than an advantage, at times making it impossible to safely disconnect an external drive or log out after a work session.
Content indexing was available from OS 8.6 and later but prior to Tiger could be disabled without impeding normal search abilities. Alternatively for the one user in ten that finds content indexing useful it could also be scheduled to run in the wee hours of the morning when the computer was otherwise idle. Now it is either on or off and if off, the built in search function is also disabled even though name, date created, date modified... can be still used as search criteria even if content is not indexed at all.
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