Check your apps on macOS High Sierra for 64-bit status

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Posted by Andy Brice
Mar 25, 2018 at 08:53 PM

The situation on Windows is a bit different in that MS are still selling both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows. Whereas there hasn’t been a 32 bit version of macOS for some time (2011?).

I still ship 32 bit applications on Windows as they run fine on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows and there seems to be no real advantage to shipping both 32 and 64 bit versions for my software (just more testing and the possibility of user confusion). For some applications (e.g. those that require lots of memory) having a 64 bit address space might be a real advantage.

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Andy Brice
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Posted by Dellu
Mar 25, 2018 at 09:39 PM

CrossOver, the Kindle app,
>Mathematica, all the Concept Draw apps, and TheBrain 9. The last has
>attempted several times to issue updates that register as 64-bit and has
>failed every time, including yesterday.
> Oh boy….Crossover is very important application.
I need to keep a note not to update my mac. I don’t want to screw Crossover.

Thank you for this note guys.

Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 26, 2018 at 07:25 PM

Update: I’ve learned that the System Information display data is cached and so an application update (like I did to TheBrain 9) does not necessarily update the cache and false negatives are possible. Rename the application and refresh the cache (⌘R) or look at the running application in Activity Monitor with the “Kind” column viewing. Doing both of these, showed me that TheBrain 9 is *now* 64 bit.

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