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Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

I noticed something really peculiar this morning when I was invited to a Zoom meeting. I had uninstalled Zoom the night before but when I clicked the Join Meeting link, I was still prompted by the browser to open the zoom.us application. I went ahead and clicked OK to open it and I got the OSX popup: "You're opening the application "zoom.us" for the first time. Are you sure you want to open this application?" (https://imgur.com/nsOV3d5)

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.

368 points vicken 6 years ago 47 comments

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