Macos – How to install USB Prober from the Developer SDK on Mac OS X

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I've tried to do some research to figure this out, and per this Technical Q&A:

USB Prober is installed as part of the Developer SDK installation. If the Developer SDK has been installed, then locate USB Prober at /Developer/Applications/Utilities/USB Prober.

I'm on Mavericks 10.9 and don't have a /Developer/Applications/Utilities folder.

My IOS Simulator is located here:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/

So I searched in all of the subfolders of /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/ and even /Applications/Xcode.app/ but didn't find anything with a name like USB Prober.app

I don't see anything in the downloads section of Xcode:

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How can I install the Developer SDK and get access to the USB Prober utility?

Best Answer

USB Prober.app is not included in Xcode

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Search for iOUSBFamily and download the latest version on the developer page

Installing the package is not recommended as it will overwrite your installed kernel extension, and can cause kernel panics at startup if the version downloaded does not match the OS.

Instead, after downloading

  1. mount the downloaded .dmg.
  2. Within the folder without the suffix "-log" in the name, right click on the IOUSBFamily-xxx.x.x.pkg and select "Show Package Contents".
  3. Double click on Contents/Archive.pax.gz to unarchive. Unarchived files are typically placed in a folder named "Archive".
  4. Look within that for DevTools/Hardware/USB Prober.app.
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