Legacy System Extension warning

I'm getting a "Legacy System Extension" warning when I start my Mac. However, I see nothing that tells me WHICH app is generating the warning. Any ideas?

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 15, 2020 11:13 AM

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Posted on Jun 15, 2020 11:15 AM

The next major release of macOS will not allow third party kernel extensions. It's just warning that any third party software you're using that installs such extensions will not work in 10.16.


All vendors who now user kernel extensions will have to use a different method to load items at startup.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210999


The message should have mentioned the name of the vendor the extension is from. But in short, all third party extensions are in the following location, along with a bunch of default ones installed with the OS.


/Library/Extensions


For now, you don't need to do anything.


If there's nothing named in the warning box, then it means the developer was too lazy to add that info to the .kext file their app installs.

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Jun 15, 2020 11:15 AM in response to BamaClark

The next major release of macOS will not allow third party kernel extensions. It's just warning that any third party software you're using that installs such extensions will not work in 10.16.


All vendors who now user kernel extensions will have to use a different method to load items at startup.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210999


The message should have mentioned the name of the vendor the extension is from. But in short, all third party extensions are in the following location, along with a bunch of default ones installed with the OS.


/Library/Extensions


For now, you don't need to do anything.


If there's nothing named in the warning box, then it means the developer was too lazy to add that info to the .kext file their app installs.

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