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Dan Byler

September 19, 2019 07:57

Excited to be part of the beta! Thanks for the invitation.

On to the question:

When nvUltra is in my /Applications folder, I get the following error when I check for updates:

For reasons of personal habit, I try to reserve my /Applications folder for Mac App Store apps, and use /Applications2 for direct-download apps.

I'm happy to move nvUltra to /Applications since it complained. But I'm still curious about the [presumably macOS-level] reasons nvUltra's updater requires the app to be in /Applications or ~/Applications.

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  Fletcher Penney

  September 22, 2019 16:35

  I believe that's a macOS issue.  I run nvUltra from ~/Desktop and it updates just fine.  Perhaps your permissions are not set correctly?

   

  Where do you put the application?

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  Dan Byler

  September 23, 2019 07:05

  Wow, super weird. Here's what I did, in order:

  1. Download nvUltra Beta and move it to /Applications2
  2. Attempt to update from /Applications2 (⚠️ this failed with the error I posted above)
  3. Move nvUltra to my user's ~/Applications folder
  4. Attempt to update (✅ this succeeded, so I posted the above question)
  5. …fast-forward to today…
  6. Try to update from ~/Applications folder (✅ still working)
  7. Move nvUltra back to /Applications2
  8. Try to update from /Applications2 (✅ still working)

  I'm reasonably confident I updated my macOS (to 10.14.6) during the gap in step 5, which would have also involved a restart and possibly some permissions updates, so that could be it.

  /d

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  Fletcher Penney

  September 25, 2019 14:19

  My guess is also a permissions issue.  You didn't happen to move the app while it was running, did you?  That might screw with the Sparkle update mechanism as well.

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  Brett

  September 25, 2019 17:55

  This is a macOS quarantine issue, it would surprise me if you'd never had it happen with other apps. The bundle usually just needs to be moved for the quarantine to be lifted.

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  Dan Byler

  September 27, 2019 08:48

  I have had it occasionally with other apps, just not apps that were actively soliciting feedback from beta users. :) 

  Anyway, thanks for the replies and keep up the great work – I'm absolutely loving using an nvX that's under active development. It remains indispensable in my information management workflows.

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