How to 'deactivate' an installed app?

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  1. bsheridan, Feb 12, 2008

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    Ok so I have leopard 10.5.1, tried it and it had too many bugs for me so I've been using a partition on my HD running tiger.

    Before updating the leopard OS to 10.5.2, is there any way I can 'deactivate' installed third party apps so as to not cause any problems with the leopard update? I still want to have the apps on my HD so as after I've updated leopard I can 'reactivate' each app to see if it causes any conflicts with the OS.
    hope thats clear for everyone,

    thanks, B.
     
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  2. kfordham281, Feb 12, 2008

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    I've never heard of such a thing but I could be proven wrong. Why don't you just remove the app(s) in question and keep their source (dmg, zip, etc)? When you're done just install them again.
     
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  3. ltldrummerboy, Feb 12, 2008

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    I think what they mean is remove the license from proprietary apps. Is this they case? If you still have your licenses (you should), I think you can just reenter them after the 10.5.2 update.
     
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  4. ebel3003, Feb 12, 2008

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    Third-party standalone applications should not conflict with an operating system update. To be honest, I don't see the point of what you want to do; deactivating applications will only prompt the application to ask you for registration information again.
     
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  5. kfordham281, Feb 12, 2008

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    My thoughts exactly. The only thing I heard of that conflicted with Leopard was APE by unsanity (and most of those were in the upgrade process).
     
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  6. kyleaa, Feb 12, 2008

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    Unless you are using very rare 3rd party apps, chances are problems would be documented by now.
     
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  7. Nermal, Feb 12, 2008

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    No, it's not a licensing issue (although that was my thought at first glance). What the OP wants to do is remove any third-party components that load on boot, a la the Extension Manager in OS 9.
     
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