On Lion you cannot run any application from the Trash folder. Simply moving old versions there should be enough.
On Dec 15, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:14:36 -0500, Bill Cheeseman <[email protected]> > said: >> Search the archives, and you will discover that you are likely experiencing >> a well-known issue that has been around for a very long time. It typically >> only affects the developer, not your users. It is especially annoying to the >> developer if another, older version of the application is still on your >> computer, in the Applications folder or perhaps in the form of earlier build >> products that are still sitting around, because then trashing the help >> caches and forcing an update won't necessarily stop the system from using >> the old version of your Help folder in an older version of your application. > > And not just with help, either. I've been in situations where a developer was > sending me new versions of an application several times a day, and it would > sometimes happen that I would double-click a new version and an older > version's code would run. (This resulted in some really strange conversations > about the behavior of the application.) There's some underlying caching > mechanism here. As you rightly say, the solution is to trash the old version > *and empty the trash* before launching the new version. m. > > PS I've also quite often seen it happen that I'll update my code for an iOS > app I'm developing and run it and an older version of the app will run, but > this is for a different reason, I think. > > - _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
