Friday, January 26, 2007

Be careful with your CFBundleVersion

This post is along the way of a reminder to myself should I ever have to figure out how my application's plist has caused the Launch Services manager to act strangely.

If you accidently setup your CFBundleVersion element badly, by for example, putting it in quotes, you will end up with the Launch Services database treating it as if it had a version of zero. You can see this clearly by running the lsregister utility:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump

[Update: lsregister has moved in Leopard:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -dump
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