Conflict Catcher 8.0.6

Publisher: Casady & Greene
Category: Utilities
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What is Conflict Catcher 8.0.6?

How surprising, the number of things in life that seem absolutely perfect until something better comes along. Your Power Macintosh 9600, for example, seemed unsurpassably speedy until you fired up a Power Mac G3. And the oranges you loved as a kid now seem bland compared to the marvelous Minneola. Now let’s add Apple’s Extensions Manager to this list. Casady & Greene’s Conflict Catcher 8 is not only more capable than Apple’s Extensions Manager but it’s also a big improvement over previous versions of Conflict Catcher.

In early iterations. Conflict Catcher did Apple’s Extensions Manager one better by allowing you to enable and disable start-up items such as extensions and control panels. In addition, Conflict Catcher automated the process of troubleshooting conflicting start-up items. Later versions of the program added the option of controlling application plug-ins. Conflict Catcher also allowed you to create sets of extensions and control panels you could switch off with a single click, rather than having to disable each one individually.

So what could this erstwhile manager possibly do for an encore? For starters, version 8 provides Install System Merge function, which creates a list of items that appear in one System Folder and allows which items you’d like to move or copy to another System Folder.

That’s right, no more rummaging around in your Previous System Folder manually moving extensions, control panels, contextual-menu items, fonts, preference files into a new System Folder when you install system software. Just select the extension the files and folders you wish to move or copy, and click on the Merge Systems button. If you like, you can label items that were originally in the new System Folder as well as apply a different label to files you’ve moved to this folder.

Conflict Catcher is now Location Manager-savvy, allowing you to switch sets of start-up items with each new location. Version 8 even supports contextual menus: with a control-click, you can trash, show the original of, or change the label of any item in Conflict Catcher’s list. You can also switch System Folders on the fly. This is very useful if you have more than one System Folder — OS 8.1 and OS 8.5, for example — on the same disk and want to easily switch between them by having Conflict Catcher 8 “bless” one System Folder or the other.

Breen, Christopher. (December 1998). Conflict Catcher 8. Macworld. (pg. 44).


Download Conflict Catcher 8.0.6 for Mac

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Mac OS 8 - 8.1 - Mac OS 9 / compressed w/ Stuffit
57 / 2014-04-14 / d812f65be174d7678ab784e8ba3004d508f23de0 / /


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IBM PowerPC



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Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver





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