Third party alternatives to Adobe software are available in our Alternative Products To Adobe Creative Suite/Creative Cloud article. List of PowerPC Apps likely to still be in use Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) and 1 (CS1) Microsoft Word or TextEdit (and saved for later analysis if required).

This simple list can be copied and pasted into your favourite text editor e.g.

This will produce a simple list (with hard disk location) in the Terminal window.

System_profiler SPApplicationsDataType | sed -e 's/ *//' | grep -A4 'Kind: PowerPC' | grep Location | sort

Paste the following command into the Terminal window:.

Go to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

Save the document for later analysis if required.

Click anywhere in the text pane and press Command+A to 'Select All'.

A full list of PowerPC type applications will appear in the text pane below the upper list of applications.

Locate the last PowerPC type application om the list and shift+click on it (this will select all the PowerPC applications).

Click (to select) the first PowerPC type application.

Click on the 'Kind' column heading to sort by kind.

When System Profiler opens select 'Applications' under the 'Software' heading in the list on the left.

Go to Apple menu > About This Mac > click the 'More Info…' button.

Make sure Spotlight is turned on (go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy tab and make sure your boot hard disk is not in the list OR use Spotless to check).

Or download and run ArchDetect The easy way: How to check for PowerPC software on your computer The really easy way:

We have an article detailing how to do this. This enables you to run Rosetta/PowerPC based applications on a modern Macintosh computer.

It is possible to legally virtualise Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on your computer using the server version of Mac OS X 10.6. Virtualise Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Server) This is a list of common PowerPC applications with information on upgrades and alternatives. Starting with OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X does not support the 'Rosetta' environment for running PowerPC based applications. OS X 10.7 Or Later Does Not Support Rosetta / PowerPC Software Article ID = 2Īrticle Title = OS X 10.7 Or Later Does Not Support Rosetta / PowerPC Software

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