{"id":1443,"date":"2007-04-04T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/what-google-desktop-installs\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T17:20:43","slug":"what-google-desktop-installs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/what-google-desktop-installs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Google Desktop Installs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/04\/google_desktop_installer\">John Gruber<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/04\/google_desktop_installer\">\r\n<p>\r\nI won&rsquo;t install software like this on my main machine without knowing everything that&rsquo;s going to be installed. So I installed Google Desktop on a test machine &mdash; an iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.9. Before the installation, I used the Unix ls command to generate a list of every file on the startup drive. I ran the same command again after installation and searched for differences.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nGruber says that the installer does some nasty stuff like silently install an input manager and replace the <tt>mdimport<\/tt> tool in <tt>\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/<\/tt>. Plus, it installs a kernel extension. I also installed it on a test Mac, and now I&rsquo;m really glad that I did.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nAfter a few minutes, it said it had finished indexing, although searching didn&rsquo;t find any results. After rebooting, it started indexing again, although the keyboard shortcut (Command-Command) and the icon in the menu bar were no longer active. So, yeah, it&rsquo;s beta.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nI&rsquo;m not a fan of &ldquo;live&rdquo; installers; I want to be able to download and archive the files that will be installed, so that I can see what they are, and also in case I later don&rsquo;t want to install the current version.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: I won&rsquo;t install software like this on my main machine without knowing everything that&rsquo;s going to be installed. So I installed Google Desktop on a test machine &mdash; an iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.9. Before the installation, I used the Unix ls command to generate a list of every file on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}