Multiple Versions of an Application

When you open a file, Mac OS X looks for the corresponding application for that file type. If multiple versions of an application are available on your system, the one with the highest version number is used.

With Magic Launch you can customize this further. When you select an application to open a file, you can choose a specific version of an application to use. This way, you can open files maching some criteria in a different version of the same application.

If you open an application selection menu, use “Choose Application…”, then select an application that is not the latest version, Magic Launch lets you choose between two behaviours:

Where a specific version of an application is used, you will see the application’s icon and name as usual, followed by the full path to this specific application.

In some cases, an application will not have a bundle identifier. For instance, this is the case of an AppleScript file saved as an application. Magic Launch will automatically remember such an application with its on-disk location.

You can force Magic Launch to remember any application by its specific location by pressing the option key while the application selection menu is open. This will replace item “Choose Application…” with “Specific Application…”.