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If user installs MacOS app to /Applications but then runs it as un-privileged user, it can't autoupdate

Open ara4n opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

This is what's going on with https://twitter.com/MacLemon/status/867332034208858113.

We could either prompt to install in ~/Applications in the first place, or correctly prompt for admin privs when the thing wants to self-update. Or at least warn that it can't reinstall due to lack of privs, and give a link to the installer to run.

ara4n avatar May 24 '17 15:05 ara4n

Is this still a problem?

My Element desktop app on macOS asks me for my admin password every time it wants to update.

MadLittleMods avatar Mar 15 '23 02:03 MadLittleMods

Closing as presumed fixed due to no response

t3chguy avatar Apr 18 '23 14:04 t3chguy

@clokep has encountered this - likely an issue caused by moving to a CE+ compatible environment

t3chguy avatar May 09 '23 14:05 t3chguy

@clokep has encountered this - likely an issue caused by moving to a CE+ compatible environment

For the record I was able to:

  1. Close Element
  2. Move /Applications/Element Nightly to ~/Application/Element Nightly
  3. Re-launch it with no issue (it found my profile, etc.)
  4. Check for updates
  5. Update successfully

So this is pretty easy to fix as a user, but quite confusing and annoying to diagnose. I was quite nervous this would "lose" my profile, but it didn't.

clokep avatar May 15 '23 13:05 clokep