On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Jon Baumgartner 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> My app has a service that gets invoked from the Finder. It works great, but 
>> I now have multiple versions of the app, and I can’t figure out how to 
>> change which one will open when the service is invoked. 
>> 
>> For example, I have one copy of my app in /Applications (the release one 
>> that’s on the app store), I have another one in an .xcarchive, and a third 
>> is the one I am currently developing. I want to be able to switch to the one 
>> in development, but every time I invoke it from the Finder, it opens the one 
>> in the .xcarchive.
>> 
>> I thought this might be something pbs could do, but if it can, it wasn’t 
>> obvious.
> 
> You probably want lsregister.
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister
> 
> First, I'd try "lsregister -f /path/to/NewVersion.app".  If that doesn't 
> change the behavior, you can do "lsregister -u /path/to/OldVersion.app".

Also, Launch Services supposedly picks the bundle with the highest 
CFBundleVersion. So make sure that differs between all the versions you have 
installed.

--Kyle Sluder

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