[tikki]

Whenever I update a prog such as NetNewsWire, Acquisition, etc. (ie drag a new .app to Applications), and go to click the icon in my dock, it has no action. I have to remove the icon from the dock, and redrag the bundle to it. This is very annoying.

Is this a bug in 10.2, or just a really annoying oversight that I should send Feedback about?

[Gul Banana]

That's not the behaviour I get - if I moved the old version to the Trash first, it still opens the old version, but if I just overwrote it it opens the new version. It doesn't seem to ever be unable to locate it..

[tikki]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
That's not the behaviour I get - if I moved the old version to the Trash first, it still opens the old version, but if I just overwrote it it opens the new version. It doesn't seem to ever be unable to locate it..

hmm. i wonder what is messed up on my system.

[wataru]

Are you sure you're overwriting the app, not just throwing away the old one and then putting in the new one? My aliases, etc. never have a problem if I overwrite the old item.

[lookmark]

Originally posted by wataru:
Are you sure you're overwriting the app, not just throwing away the old one and then putting in the new one? My aliases, etc. never have a problem if I overwrite the old item.

Is it safe to overwrite an app?

After a bad experience doing this in an earlier version of OS X (10.0? 10.1?), with the package getting screwed up, I now delete the older version and then replace it.

Would much prefer to just overwrite if no one else has any trouble with it.