Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together

From	TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together
Date	2013-02-04 15:21 -0600
Message-ID	<anan3lFn9cfU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<anake9Fmkg7U1@mid.individual.net> <michelle-8DBDE2.14035104022013@news.eternal-september.org>

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On 2013-02-04 21:03:51 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:

> In article <anake9Fmkg7U1@mid.individual.net>,
>  TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Frequently I'll have two instances of Safari.app in my dock and two
>> instances in my Recent Items list. I have checked and I have only a
>> single copy of Safari.app in my Applicatioins folder. My understanding
>> is that one should only have one instance of Safari.app running, or am
>> I mistaken?
> 
> More than likely, the extra instance is running from another drive,
> probably a Time Machine or other backup drive.  I had the same problem with
> mail.app last week.

Michelle, you got it! One copy of Safari was running on an external 
backup drive. Many thanks!

-- 
James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

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Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-02-04 14:36 -0600
  Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-02-04 14:03 -0700
    Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2013-02-04 15:21 -0600
    Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-02-06 10:13 -0800
      Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-02-06 12:18 -0700
        Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-02-06 13:21 -0800
          Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-02-06 16:10 -0700
        Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-02-07 11:14 +0100
      Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-02-07 05:01 +0000
      Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2013-02-09 18:15 +0100
        Re: Oddity - Two Instances of Safari.app running together Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-02-11 09:47 -0800

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