Ask HN: Automated way to see which apps will break on Catalina 64-bit?

1 pointsby arikrover 5 years ago

Is there an automated way to see which of my apps, printer software etc will break when I upgrade to 64 bit macOS Catalina?

3 comments

benologistover 5 years ago

You can check (opened) software in Activity Monitor under CPU, there's an optional column "Kind" to show if it is 64 bit or not.

Someoneover 5 years ago

About this Mac…/System Report…/File/Save… writes a XML file with file extension .spx.<p>Then, write something to grab the “arch_kind” values from it. 32-bit apps have “arch_i32” there (“arch_i32_i64” is fine, I think)

dmt314159over 5 years ago

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