Is there any app that will scan my early 08 mac pro tower to determine which programs currently running under Snow Leopard will or will not run if I update to Mountain Lyon?
Mac OS X (10.6.8), 10 GB Ram
One of the more complete lists is the Roaring Apps web site: http://roaringapps.com
You can do it manually,here: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
You can find all of your PowerPC apps by selecting the Applications option in the Software section of System Profiler. Select the kind header to sort by kind, then scroll down to the PowerPC section. You can't make any of those work on Lion or Mountain Lion. You'll have to update them or replace them.
Thanks for the info. I see that my categories of software are universal, power pc, intel, classic, and not listed. Is power pc the only kind of software that would not be compatible with Mountain lion? My primary HD is three TBs which I have partitioned into to two partitions. I wonder if I could load ML on the empty partition and see if it would run the programs on the SL partition.
PowerPC and Classic will not work, but classic already doesn't work on Snow Leopard.
Yes, you should be able to partition and install both. However I don't know if you can set the install location. I just can't remember. You certainly could clone your current OS onto the other partition, then do the upgrade install on that.
You can run Classic software on the Intel Macs with SheepShaver, or its cousin, Chubby Bunny!
Thanks for all the help. I truly appreciate it. If I use Carbon Copy cloner or some other cloner app can I just clone the SL OS to the second partition or do I have to clone the entire Macintosh partition to the second partition?
I'm not sure what you mean by the "entire Macintosh partition." But, you only need to clone the SL startup volume to the other partition.
Any app that will check compatibility of programs with Mountain Lion
