I found two finders?

[b4tn]

I was poking around today and noticed something. In system/library/coreservices there where 2 finders. one labeld version 10.0 and the other 10.1.2 The funny thing is I gave my finder a custom icon with instructions from xicons.com. The finder Icon that shows in the dock is the custom Icon. Looking at the two finders the one labeled 10.0 has the custom icon and the one that is 10.1.2 is the default icon. It seems to me that I may be running the finder from 10.0. Take a look see if this is the case for anyone else. Any thoughts?

 

[blb]

If you look closely, the 10.0 version is not much of a file, Finder says it's only 4K in size; if you look at it in Terminal:

$ l Finder
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 Oct  6 14:11 Finder*

$ l Finder/rsrc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  368 Oct  6 14:11 Finder/rsrc*

so all it is is a file with a small resource fork (maybe the icon only?); my guess is it's some kind of placeholder?

The other Finder is Finder.app, which is the actual Finder.

 

[simX]

Get Info on both of them in the Finder. One of them is called "Mac OS X Fake Finder", which is the one that is 4K in size. It's a Classic application, and I believe it's the place holder for Classic applications so that they know a Finder is open. (Go to a Classic application, and click on the application switcher. Notice you can see all of your applications, including the Finder, Carbon, and Cocoa applications.

The other's real name is "Finder.app" and this is the true Finder. There is no possible way you could be running Mac OS X Fake Finder even though it does not have a custom icon (although it should) because it just doesn't have any of the resources.

 

[Dradts]

Is it possible to run the new OS X Finder on a system wit OS 9?? Or ain't the new one a carbon app?