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

Posted by arikr on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:59PM
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Is there an automated way to see which of my apps, printer software etc will break when I upgrade to 64 bit macOS Catalina?

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Re:Ask HN: Automated way to see which apps will break on Cat... by benologist on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:52PM (#21198147)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Automated way to see which apps will break on Cat... by Someone on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @07:08PM (#21198278)

About this Mac…/System Report…/File/Save… writes a XML file with file extension .spx.

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)

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Re:Ask HN: Automated way to see which apps will break on Cat... by dmt314159 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:52AM (#21200424)

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