[MlMt] "Software Update Disabled"

[Eric Sharakan]

Hi, In Catalina, the root filesystem is actually read-only, and MacOS 
performs some interesting tricks to make that work while allowing third 
party SW to be installed, making it generally completely invisible to 
users.  So perhaps you somehow copied MailMate into this read-only 
partition?

To see the "writeable" /Applications folder, look at 
/System/Volumes/Data/Applications/ in Terminal.  If MailMate is not in 
there, then you need to move it there.  If it is there, make sure there 
are no other copies anywhere.  If it still fails, this could be a bug in 
the Beta version of MailMate.

Hope this helps.

-Eric

On 10 Mar 2020, at 6:00, Thomas Baker wrote:

> I am trying to set up MailMate on macOS Catalina 10.15.3.
> When I open MailMate, I get a message:
>
>     Software Update Disabled
>
>     MailMate is running on a read-only file system and
>     can therefore not be updated.
>
>     If you downloaded MailMate from the internet then
>     moving it out of the Downloads folder should solve
>     the problem.
>
> I installed from MailMateBeta.tbz into the /Applications
> folder.  The permissions of that folder were initially:
>
>     drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Oct 24 15:33 MailMate.app/
>
> I changed the permissions to my personal account:
>
>     drwxr-xr-x 3 tbaker staff 96 Oct 24 15:33 MailMate.app/
>
> But I still get the message.
>
> I suppose I could just check the box for "Do not show
> this message again", but I'd like to understand what
> folder MailMate thinks is read-only (and whether this
> could cause trouble in other ways).
>
> Many thanks,
> Tom
>
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