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A number of tools are available for clearing the system cache in Mac OS. Any ideas what are the locations which are targeted by these kind of applications. I am just trying the understand how system cache is stored in Mac OS. Inputs are welcome. Also let me know if there is any harm or any...

Just like we have GUIDs for installed applications in Windows... is there a similar concept in MacOS. Please enlighten me :-)

Thanks ppl... I had not known that we could get a list of applications this way!

Cool... this means that there is a single place from where this can be known. Any ideas how this can be done programatically in cocoa.

Which is the best way to determine the names of the installed applications in Mac. One possibility is to iterate thru the applications directory, but are there other methods of doing this? Is there any file which holds the names of all installed files?

Thanks guys for the valuable inputs. Will try to get hold of the book to understand the intricacies of Leopard.

How is data which was maintained in the registry maintained in Mac? All I know about this is that it is done in pList files. But am not sure how the different areas of registry i.e. HKLM, HKCU is kept in the pList files in mac? Any pointers, suggestions will be helpful.