Howard Dinin

Fletcher, your Point 2 in your comprehensive message in response (for all of which, thanks) was baffling to me also, though after reading through this entire thread, I think I have a hypothesis. I ...

I found some time to create a new user. I did so. The new user was set up to have no administrator privileges, but with its own password. I opened nvUltra and was welcomed to the beta version with ...

Smart thinking Stuart. I didn't think to try opening a folder from the dock shortcuts before re-installing.But the result seems to be the same.

I removed nvUltra app (the 09.01.20.19 build of the current beta) along with all associated files AppCleaner could find. I re-installed that same, latest, version on this device freshly downloaded ...

Tried the terminal command line suggested: no sign either of "nvUltra" or of "public.folder," in any bracketed sub-section, though problem persists. Will try deletion of nvUltra app and re-installa...

Update: Sorry Stuart, I've not yet had a chance to try re-installing nvUltra on the Mojave machine. I have tested yet a third device, also running Big Sur (v.11.5), and there is no problem.Will rep...

Tried this on another device, running under the latest version of Big Sur (v.11.6), and everything is fine with regard to this anomaly... at least for the Applications and Downloads folders.

Having the exact same problem. Discovered when I tried using the Applications folder access from the Dock and requested "Open in Finder" [and later trials showed this affected the "Downloads" folde...

What I meant is what you said. If the icon was in the menu, it was running. If not, not. I also found it unusual that the app would appear to start up and then stop running. But the tell-tale was t...

was wondering the same. thanks for this clarification.