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About Clouseau:
Clouseau is a troubleshooting utility which monitors other applications as they run, and generates a report file which contains a list of files accessed by the application while it runs. This report can be useful for determining which files are suspect when an application misbehaves, or refuses to launch. Clouseau is freeware and may be freely used and distributed under the GPL. Source code is available in the "Clouseau" text file inside the application bundle. If you make any changes or improvement to Clouseau, I would be interested in incorporating those improvements to the main application, so please email them to me! How to use Clouseau: 1) Launch Clouseau, and use the "Choose...." button to choose the application to be watched. 2) By default, Clouseau will filter the report file by "/Library/", which limits the report output to files accessed in the top-level "Library", System "Library", and user-level "Library" folders. If more (or less) output in the report file is desired, choose the level of filtering desired. The "/" option will show all files and not filter the report output at all, while the "/Users/username/Library" option will only report files accessed in your home directory. 3) If you would prefer Clouseau not to alphabetize and remove duplicate files in the report file, un-check that option. The ability to deactivate this feature could be handy when you are trying to determine at what point an application fails, because when the feature is deactivated, the list of accessed files is chronological. 4) Click "Watch Application". The application will launch automatically. 5) Once you quit the watched application, a report file will be generated containing all the files that the watched application opened or accessed during startup and when running. You can then examine that console report for odd or suspect files. ~jeff release 1.0, Nov. 2004 special thanks to Ben Lentz, whose help was invaluable |