Anyone familiar with Pacifist?

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Anyone familiar with Pacifist?

On another board someone asked about getting some software from the install DVD that was corrupted on the HD, without having to do a complete reinstall.
Elsewhere someone asked about BootCamp, which was not installed on a purchased preloaded Mac.
I found this software, Pacifist, and was just wondering if anyone has any experience with it?
It supposedly has the ability to look into the packages and extract single files, much like the tools that are available in Windows for viewing and extracting data from cab files.
Just curious that's all.

Dual G5(Leopard), MacBookPro 15(Leopard), MacBookPro3,1 17 Core2Duo, Mac OS X (10.5), BC1.4 Vista Ultimate 64-bit on MBP/17"

Posted on Nov 10, 2007 7:18 PM

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joeuu

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Nov 10, 2007 7:22 PM in response to nerowolfe

I have not used it on 10.5 yet, but it is a fantastic piece of software! Pick and choose to extract what you will.

Well worth the money.

Joe

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Answer 2

Nov 10, 2007 7:24 PM in response to nerowolfe

nerowolfe,

Yes, that's what Pacifist does. It does it very well.

When you open a package with Pacifist, it will give you several options for what to do from there. You can browse the package (or a bundle of packages, for example on an Install disk) contents, and select any applications, files, etc. that are imbedded. Pacifist will install complete applications, or you can just take things piece-meal as you find them.

It's all pretty simple, once you start using Pacifist.

Scott

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Answer 3

Nov 10, 2007 7:39 PM in response to Scott Radloff

Useless trivia...

Pacifist is the OS X version of TomeViewer from the OS8 and 9 era.

As Scott says, it's pretty straight forward when you actually use it.

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Answer 4

baltwo

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Nov 11, 2007 12:38 AM in response to Welles Goodrich

Concur with the above posts. Additionally, 2.5.1 is compatible with Leopard. Well worth the $20 USD price.

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