browsing on wife's MBP (BTW: I check HD last night, all is fine, routine maintenance). I go into Applications and notice 2 version of Skype, a "Skype" and a "Skype_old". OK, I was curious how old the _old version was, so I try to run it. It hangs, I only get the "Skype" menu next to the Apple but no more. I browse in Chrome for a minute or two, when I check Skype it's still not fully started, so I force quit. Now there is no more "Skype_old" anywhere on this hard drive, not even in trash. The other "Skype" works just fine now. There is no evidence of "Skype_old" at all, like it never was present on this hard drive. How could an Application disappear like that?

Just to make sure I was not dreaming, I fired up Time Machine. Yes, there was a Skype_old as can be seen here. completely gone now. if there were not for Time Machine, I would think I was imagining things.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2012 01:51AM by space-time.

How about Skype detected it was an old version and you were catching it in the middle of updating itself?

Paul

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How about Skype detected it was an old version and you were catching it in the middle of updating itself?

Paul

sounds plausible, I remember Skype asking me several times to update and I said "later". Maybe that was it, but I never saw this happening before.

I have exactly the same problem, could somebody explain that? it is a virus, hack?