Vivaldi created a duplicate in the Chrome Apps-folder

MaartenRenckens

I just saw a dupe of Vivaldi in Mac's Launchpad. I traced it down to my homefolder/Applications/Chrome Apps/Vivaldi.

It is dated 5th of april, five days ago. I maybe could have updated Vivaldi that day, I don't remember installing anything else.

Is this intentional?

xyzzy

@MaartenRenckens I've seen this happen following a Vivaldi crash in some cases. It's okay to remove it. Just quit Vivaldi and then delete "Chrome Apps" from your local Applications folder. (Hopefully, it won't come back. If it does, you'll need to do some additional clean-up.)

Chas4

I also see it, I deleted it with the last Vivaldi update and it is back.

The updater closed Vivaldi but Vivaldi crashed on exit (already have a bug report about the crashing on quit), Vivaldi still updated. The one in the hidden Chrome Apps folder has a display version of 1.5 for me in the Info panel (5.3 MB)

xyzzy

@Chas4 If the Vivaldi Chrome app launcher keeps coming back, the following should make it go away... until the next crash scenario that causes it to return again:

Quit Vivaldi
Remove the "Chrome Apps" folder from your personal Applications folder
Remove the .sfl file corresponding to the Vivaldi Chrome app launcher (that you removed in the previous step) from "$HOME/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist/com.apple.LSSharedFileList.ApplicationRecentDocuments/"
If you still have extra Vivaldi launchers in Launchpad, you can reset Launchpad back to its defaults by opening Terminal.app and entering the following command:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

Chas4

@xyzzy said in Vivaldi created a duplicate in the Chrome Apps-folder:

.sfl file
Not seeing a .sfl file not sure where it would be.

The duplicate gets created with Vivaldi updates it looks like as a crash on exit test did not create a duplicate.

xyzzy

@Chas4 How many files does the following find command display?

$ find "$HOME/Library/Application Support" -type f -name '*vivaldi*.sfl' -print

Cleaning up stray files isn't absolutely necessary, just good housekeeping.

Chas4

@xyzzy said in Vivaldi created a duplicate in the Chrome Apps-folder:

$ find "$HOME/Library/Application Support" -type f -name 'vivaldi.sfl' -print

In terminal?

I sometimes go through and clean up old files.