# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be A feature request may need to be submitted to Here you go: #!/usr/bin/env python Ideally, Google would add support to Google Chrome for Mac (and other Google software for Mac) to clean old versions automatically, immediately after each update is installed. Is this a known issue in the Chromium bug database, and is the Chromium team working on fixing it? (I tried to search through the Chromium bug database, but it's huge and unclear how to search for Mac-specific bugs, and I just ran out of steam checking it.).Does anyone know where to find the source code for Google's Keystone update subsystem? (This doesn't appear to be available on - I looked.).Does anyone know of a built-in mechanism in Google Chrome for Mac to clean out these older versions, similar to what exists for Google Chrome for Windows?.Google Earth) that are also under Keystone management, and modifying this script (or creating yet another version of it) soon becomes an unwieldy approach. the script has to be run separately and periodically via a separate JAMF Pro policy.Īlso, some enterprise sites may have other Google products installed (e.g. The downside to having a separate script is that it isn't run automatically after Keystone updates Google Chrome, i.e. Removing /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/.87 Removing /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/.170 Removing /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/.181 The resulting script now correctly detects the current version installed on disk, leaves it intact, and deletes all other versions installed inside the /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions folder: $ sudo /tmp/clean_up_old_chrome_versions.py

I did find a Google build tool ( clean_up_old_versions.py), and modified it for my needs, while also borrowing some code from Hannes Juutilainen's excellent chrome-enable-autoupdates.py. (Again, these only appear if you've configured Google Chrome to autoupdate.)ĭespite extensive searching online (Chrome's online documentation, Chrome's source code on ), I could not find any built-in mechanism in Google Chrome for Mac to clean out these old versions. Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions Unlike on Windows, if you've enabled Google Chrome for Mac to autoupdate for all users, over time you'll start to see an accumulation of old versions: $ pwd

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