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I use an application called Anki for learning foreign languages and professional terminology. This app creates a default folder in /Users/user/Documents/Anki, which I did not want.

You can circumvent this by calling the app from the CLI with the -b option. Because of that, I went into the app bundle and looked for executable in Anki.app/Contents/MacOs/, which is simply called Anki.

I renamed this file to Anki2 and made a new executable called Anki, which simply reads:

/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/Anki2 -b /Users/henrikgiesel/Library/Application\ Support/Anki

And I can open the App bundle perfectly fine!... Until the next reboot, then it will complain:

You can’t open the application “Anki.app” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.

Why is this? How does OS X detect PowerPC application? Would it work if I wrote a C-file doing basically the same and putting the compiled version in the place of the Shell script?

EDIT:

I can still open it from the CLI like this:

/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/Anki

But not like this

open /Applications/Anki.app
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  • The title of this question is misleading / not helpful, because obviously you’re not actually dealing with PowerPC code, OS X just misidentifies something.
    – Crissov
    Dec 13, 2015 at 12:49
  • But the OS thinks it deals with PowerPC code, so it would be helpful to know, what causes this behavior.
    – hgiesel
    Dec 13, 2015 at 17:25
  • What version of OS X are you running?
    – user3439894
    Dec 13, 2015 at 18:47
  • El Capitan 10.11.2
    – hgiesel
    Dec 13, 2015 at 20:02

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Try wrapping the shell script as an app using Platypus. I've packaged multiple perl and bash scripts using the program, all appear as simple applications, with an icon of your choice, none have ever been misidentified as PPC apps.

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