Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-28 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Pedro Ronni, With regard to DesktopDB - as I noted a while back, although DesktopDB is listed as a Classic application it seems to be part of the standard Leopard installation: on 16/6/09 1:00 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I've never had classic/OS9 on

Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Neil, I noticed that. DesktopDB classic is in /System/Library/CoreServices/ SKPlugins/DesktopDB.service I don't know what its purpose is in Leopard? Cheers, Ronni On 28/08/2009, at 2:47 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Pedro Ronni, With regard to DesktopDB - as I noted a while back,

Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi again Neil, I found this having a read through one of my Leopard Books: Desktop DB and Desktop DF solely exists in OS X for the benefit of Carbon applications or applications with Carbon components. They will be created and populated when such an application needs them. I guess it's not

Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-28 Thread Pedro
Evening All Thanks to all who responded to my post... I guess the DesktopDB will remain a mystery for awhile and as Neil has said I'm not about to go poking it with a stick As for MacThe Ripper and DiscInvertoryX they can go until they sort them selves out for the new OS. The Hp

Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-27 Thread Pedro
Hello Muggers After reading a few earlier posts about the compatibility of some apps and the new Snow Leopard I didn't think I would have a problem as my macbook is only about one year old. I have always kept up with the updates and am very careful as to what I install from the internet.

Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-27 Thread Susan Hastings
hi Pedro, Ronni posted information on this in the past few days, so it would be worthwhile looking through the WAMUG emails on Snow Leopard. PowerPC applications will run if you choose the option to install Rosetta - the only reason you can run them at the moment is that you have Rosetta

Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-27 Thread James Devenish
Hi, There are some unofficial lists of software that is not yet compatible with Snow Leopard: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/snow_leopard_incompatibilities/ http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ I know I use some of those applications! James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --

Re: Snow Leopard compatibility

2009-08-27 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Pedro, As Susan has already noticed DesktopDB - classic You wouldn't have been able to RUN this in Leopard! You can't run Classic in Leopard or on an Intel Mac. When installing Snow Leopard over Leopard if you have PPC Apps (that you really need to use) be sure to do customise install