How can I purge applications with the same BundleIDdentifier

Question

I have been testing an application I am developing, but have come into a problem with the Bundle Identifier.

I had copied the application to a location for testing, and since deleted it. However, I find that when I try something like this:

//  Current Application
    let id = Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier!
    let thisApp = NSRunningApplication.runningApplications(withBundleIdentifier: id).last!
//  Get Bundle
    let bundleURL = NSWorkspace.shared.urlForApplication(withBundleIdentifier: bundleID)!
    guard let bundle = Bundle(url: bundleURL)
    else {
        print("oops! bundleURL: \(bundleURL)")
        return
    }

I usually get the error message. It appears that urlForApplication us using the location of an old copy, since deleted, not the current location.

How can I find these past locations and remove them? The old copy of the application has already been deleted (and the bin emptied).

Answer 1

You can get a the list of the running applications, filter then by there bundle identifiers and then filter them again the ones that are not equal to the current one:

let sameBundleIdentifiers = NSWorkspace.shared.runningApplications.filter({$0.bundleIdentifier == (Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier ?? "")})

print("sameBundleIdentifiers", sameBundleIdentifiers.count)

let filtered = sameBundleIdentifiers.filter {$0 != NSRunningApplication.current }