I checked my Applications folder and didn't see Zoom there so I clicked the "Show Application" button in the popup and it ended up opening the Applications folder from one of my Time Machine backups with Zoom installed.
I tested this with both Firefox and Chrome with the same results. Now I don't know if this is an OSX specific issue, a browser issue, or a Zoom issue.
Can anyone else confirm the same or similar behavior on Mac? If anyone can also shed some insight about this behavior, it would be much appreciated.
There is malware that is easier to get rid of than Zoom.
Someone absolutely did, though. Remember last summer when it came out that uninstalling Zoom would leave a local webserver running that would automatically reinstall it if you accessed a Zoom link?
https://www.macworld.com/article/3407764/zoom-mac-app-flaw-c...
$ ls /Volumes/YourTimeMachineBackup/Backups.backupdb/YourComputerNameRather it's likely the OS doing the best it can to handle the URL for you. The OS has a mapping between the URL and the bundle identifier of the app, and apparently looked for the bundle on a disk that happened to be attached, after it didn't find it on your main disk. Which is perfectly reasonable in itself.
Looking at multiple application directories is one thing but executing things from the backup directory is another.
> but executing things from the backup directory is another.
Time Machine backups are structured in a very non-proprietary way. Each backup is just a folder, protected from modifications, with hard links used to save space. If anything, I'd say good on Apple for supporting a backup format that works exactly like making a copy of a folder.
And while on the topic of the web client, it turned out to be a very disappointing experience. There was no way to set focus on a given attendee; I wanted to view the host's video feed but the website kept switching feeds, seemingly haphazardly, to different attendees.
In OPs case, Zoom.app was still hanging out in his backup, ready to be launched (Time Machine backups are just a standard disk image)
Dump LS database: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -dump > ~/lsdump.txt
Purge LS database: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
You could test it with Slack, they also use the same way ("tell the browser to load a URL") to load their app from the browser.
Anyway, I've had at least one application that said to remove it, first delete it, AND THEN EMPTY THE TRASH (?!?!) and maybe even reboot. Most of us are probably more troubled by the trash-empty thing than the reboot thing.
EDIT: OK Alzheimer's hasn't gotten me yet. It was Witopia / personalVPN:
https://www.personalvpn.com/support/set-vpn-mac/app-setup-fo...
Just search the page for the word "empty". It reads:
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2. If you already had the WiTopia personalVPN app installed previously: Go to your FINDER > Applications folder > Drag the WiTopia app from there to the trash > and empty the trash* to remove the existing app.
* If the trash is not emptied, this will not work!
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If it wasn't mounted, I would file a bug.
Either way, not really Zoom's fault.
