Therefore, they cannot be installed and activated after upgrading to macOS Catalina. Older versions use 32-bit licensing components and installers. Please include enough info about the problem and situation so the community will be able to help you. Join the Mailing list & search the archives for similar problem reports & how they were resolved, and/or ask the group. If you need Mac-specific help, you are at the right page. If there are none, it will return zero.The Beginners Guide has general help.
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# Extension Attribute if the array is empty, return 0 otherwise return the lengthĮcho this runs on your client Mac computers, it will populate an extension attribute with the number of 32-bit applications that are installed. # use `basename` to strip out the directory path
# loop through the search output add the applications to the array # create an empty array to save the app names to KMDItemExecutableArchitectures != 'x86_64' & \ SEARCH_OUTPUT="$(/usr/bin/mdfind "kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = 'i386' & \ # perform `mdfind` search save it to "SEARCH_OUTPUT" # this accomodates app titles/directories with spaces # set Internal Field Separator (IFS) to newline If you simply want to find any Macs that have 32-bit applications installed, you could create a basic script that populates an extension attribute with the number of 32-bit applications found.
Since some applications list both, you want to find applications that support 32-bit only. We look for both applications that support 32-bit and do not support 64-bit. This is looking for any app that DOES NOT use x86_64 (64-bit) as the executable architecture. The second statement is kMDItemExecutableArchitectures != 'x86_64'. This looks for any file that has an executable architecture that uses i386 (32-bit).įollowing that we have & which simply looks at the first and the second statement combined.
Next is "kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = 'i386'. The command we’ll be using is this: /usr/bin/mdfind "kMDItemExecutableArchitectures = 'i386' & kMDItemExecutableArchitectures != 'x86_64' & kMDItemKind = 'Application'"īreaking this command in to parts you get /usr/bin/mdfind that calls the absolute path for the mdfind binary. Additionally, you can leverage mdfind to locate files matching a given query.