[MlMt] MailMate update denied

[David Ledger]

On 19 May 2022, at 20:33, Tracy Valleau wrote:

> Hold down the command key and drag MailMate to your desktop.
> Release all keys.
> Hold down the command key and drag MailMate to your Applications 
> folder.
>
> That should fix it.

Thanks, but this is an update that MailMate itself is trying to install, 
even though it knows it is up to date. It’s not a human initiated 
download. So
1.  Why is it think it has to update software that is already up to 
date.
2.  Why does it think it is a read-only filesystem when the system is 
too old to have a read-only filesystem (other than on an external drive, 
that this isn’t).

David


> On 19 May 2022, at 12:22, David Ledger wrote:
>
>> I am currently up to date with “Normal Releases” according to the 
>> Software Update panel of Preferences, but whenever I start up 
>> MailMate (which is rare because I keep it and the laptop running) I 
>> get a popup saying:
>> v v v v
>> 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.
>> ^ ^ ^ ^
>>
>> The system is a Mid 2011 11” MacBook Air running High Sierra 
>> 10.13.6. The filesystem is APFS with the base drive having one 
>> container “Container disk1” that contains one Volume “Macintosh 
>> HD”. It has no read-only volumes.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>> David
>> _______________________________________________
>> mailmate mailing list
>> mailmate at lists.freron.com
>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
> _______________________________________________
> mailmate mailing list
> mailmate at lists.freron.com
> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate