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What's with Jag running apps from the Trash?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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I've had a couple of applications actually start up, and run from, the Trash. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Ok, I figured out what the problem is, and I think its a bug in X.2.1. If you double-click on an app that is in the trash, it tell you that it can't open. However, if you forgot to remove the application's icon from your dock, and you click on it there, it will go ahead and open as long as you haven't emptied the trash.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
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It's got something to do with the Application cache that's now stored in the app_profile folder in /var/vm. (it's one of the things that speeds up app launch time in 10.2)
I've downloaded new versions of Omniweb, dragged the old one to the trash, replaced the dock icon, launched directly from the app icon in the Applications folder, and STILL had it start the version in the trash, because the name was the same, and it was in cache.
A log out/in will clear it, if all else fails.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Orange County, CA
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This has been around since 10.0.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Thats it...I'm switching to XP
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by electropura:
Thats it...I'm switching to XP
BWAAAAHAHAHAH! 
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signatures are a waste of bandwidth
especially ones with political tripe in them.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2001
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The really bad part is that if you download a new build of a program, drag the old one to the trash, and double click on the new one (in the Finder, not the dock), it launches the old code with the new resources, which can be quite bad. Even more strange, if you instead drag the new build to the dock, and launch it from there, it launches the old app entirely from the trash, both code and resources.
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"Think Different. Like The Rest Of Us."
iBook G4/1.2GHz | 1.25GB | 60GB | Mac OS X 10.4.2
Athlon XP 2500+/1.83GHz | 1GB PC3200 | 120GB | Windows XP
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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/mal
"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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I'm pretty sure it's still obsessive-compulsive, but glad to know i'm not the only one  I just can't deal with that full trash icon!!
Anyway, for the record this bug has nothing to do with the /var/vm/app_profile/ directory. This bug predates that directory so it's not even possible. More likely it has to do with the desktop database which still exists in OS X.
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We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
-- Radiohead, Exit Music (for a film)
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: London, UK
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I've had the same problem but with completely different apps - upon installing jaguar, the first thing I did was to delete IE but when i clicked a link in an email it still opened explorer from the trash - obviously i had still not changed the default browser in the system prefs
what's new as well (i think) is that you cannot delete just one item from the trash any more but you have to empty the whole trash - is it just my impression or you could just delete one or more items from the trash without deleting everything?
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