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.
> 
> -
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