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    Classic application on Intel MBP?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Oct 30, 2007.

  1. taelrak

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    Clean installation of Leopard, checking the architecture of software in System Profiler:

    DesktopDB - Classic (as opposed to Universal, PowerPC, Intel).
    /System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins/DesktopDB.service

    What in the world is this? And why am I able to run a "Classic" application on an Intel anyway?
     
    taelrak, Oct 30, 2007
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    DesktopDB was an old file used by classic Mac OS that kept track of which application opened which file. Don't know why that's there, though. You'd have to ask someone with more knowledge of the workings of OS X.
     
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    Thanks. Anyone else have this thing there? Or is it just me?
     
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    Does it actually run? Perhaps it is just left over code that was not taken out or something. Or maybe they have made a version that works with Intel?
     
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    Never noticed it running :p
     
    taelrak, Oct 31, 2007
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