Problems upgrading Sparkle

[chuckbo]

I must be missing something basic.
When I open Sparkle, I get the message: a read-only or a temporary location. Use Finder to copy Sparkle to the Applications folder, relaunch it from there, and try again.

I’m opening the file from the Applications folder. I don’t know why Sparkle thinks this is a read-only or temporary location. Has anyone else run into this?

Chuck

[duncan]

Some background on that in this post:

Updating Sparkle

Just to provide some background on that, I think it was Sierra or High Sierra, Apple added a security feature for some obscure exploit. The security feature is sometimes referred to “app translocation”, when an app has a “quarantine” flag, instead of running from the folder you launched it from, it is moved to a read only disk with a random mount point path, somewhere inside /tmp. Apps that appear inside the downloads folder gain a quarantine flag (not sure who assigns the flag). The finder wi…

If Sparkle is in the Applications folder and it’s still giving that error, it is a Finder bug.

I can suggest trying to delete Sparkle, download it again from our site then move it from Downloads to Applications. Maybe that appeases the Finder.

[chuckbo]

Thanks.
I’ve re-downloaded it, and I’m not getting that message any longer.