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Reply to Upgrading bundled login item and app extensions on MacOS
Just to add some context, my current understanding is that when someone downloads a new .app and drops it in their Applications folder, and then launches it, that the system somehow will register this new version of the embedded LoginItem. I also expect that the old version would keep running. So I'm imagining I need to somehow kill that process, at which point I think the system should automatically bring the new one back online? Is that correct? I also have a File Provider within the LoginItem, so I need to make sure I am updating that extension to have the new code but I'm not sure if restarting the LoginItem is sufficient or if I also need to interact with the File Provider extension processes somehow when there is a new copy of the parent .app.
Topic: App & System Services SubTopic: Core OS Tags:
May ’23