> > Is there any way to gather a list of applications that
> have been
> > installed on the Macintosh....
> >
> > With the windows registry, we just look at the
> uninstall tree.... It's not perfect, but that get's 95+% of the
packages....
> >
> > I can't think of any way to do this on the mac... Except....
> >
> > 1) Os.path.Walk & check for .APP bundles....
> >
> > Anyone have a better suggestion? This would have to
> address all the connected hard drives....
>
> Anything installed using Apple .pkg/.mpkg bundles will leave
> a receipt in /Library/Receipts. (Maybe ~/Library/Receipts
> too? I don't know.)
I forgot about that.... But that's quite true....
> However, most GUI apps won't install this way though. They
> will just have been dragged from a disk image or something to
> whereever the user wanted to install it. Typically this is
> somewhere under /Applications, but could also be anywhere else.
I know.... I prefer this install method myself... But it doesn't leave
any easy way to discover the install....
- Benjamin
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