[MlMt] Keyboard shortcut to upgrade to pre-release not working

Chris Jones cjones at mitoca.ca
Tue Mar 21 10:25:53 EDT 2023


I eat my words then, maybe thats what's happening. I'll try downgrading 
to 5950 then to see if I see this behaviour.

-C

On 21 Mar 2023, at 5:03, Jolin Warren wrote:

> Late to the party, but I’m pretty sure this is the reason. I’m on 
> r5950 and checking for a new Test Build tells me I’m on the latest 
> one. Benny said in an earlier email that he hasn’t put anything 
> newer into the test build release stream because of several crashing 
> bugs (maybe now resolved?). Chris, since you’re ahead of the 
> ‘latest’ Test Build, I’m not surprised it’s offering to 
> downgrade you. This will probably be the case until something newer is 
> released into the Test Build release stream.
>
> On 21 Mar 2023, at 1:07, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Hi, a bit of a shot in the dark: could it be that because these are 
>> not "released" test builds from Benny, that the update check logic 
>> might not be working?  Or perhaps it is working, but just wanting to 
>> downgrade you to r5950 (which is the latest "released" test build)?
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> On 20 Mar 2023, at 20:47, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried creating another account on my Mac, this is a clean 
>>> install I did a few days ago and the same thing occurred under this 
>>> user account. It's a brand new user profile that doesn't have any 
>>> legacy profile data laying around and Mailmate starts as if it's a 
>>> new user.
>>>
>>> Not sure what to say at this point. Especially since I've updated 
>>> Mailmate once since doing the fresh install. When I updated it I 
>>> downloaded the latest test release from the updates archive page and 
>>> replaced MailMate. So realistically it's a fresh copy of the 
>>> application.
>>>
>>> 🤷
>>>
>>> -C
>>>
>>> On 20 Mar 2023, at 17:20, Henry Seiden wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a way to try it either in a different user on the same 
>>>> machine or on a different machine to verify whether it’s the Mac 
>>>> hardware or the user settings causing this alone?
>>>>
>>>> I’m thinking it’s not MM. Hane not seen this reported by others 
>>>> and I have not had this ever. Although I do remember a different 
>>>> key combo bringing up the warning, just not which one (obviously 
>>>> not the one you are using apparently).
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>
>>>> Henry Seiden
>>>> - -
>>>> Techworks Pro Co.
>>>> E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com
>>>> W: http://techworkspro.com
>>>>
>>>> On 20 Mar 2023, at 19:30, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey Henry,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your response and feedback. If I go to the menubar and 
>>>>> click on MailMate and then hold down the ⌥ key, it changes from 
>>>>> "Check for Update" to "Check for Test Build", so I know the ⌥ 
>>>>> key is working as it should. But when I click on "Check for Test 
>>>>> Build" after pressing the ⌥ key, I'm presented with the prompt: 
>>>>> "**You are Using a Prerelease**".
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment I've manually upgraded to version 5958 and yet I'm 
>>>>> still seeing this which is strange as this never used to happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 Mar 2023, at 14:11, Henry Seiden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Should be  as you said, ⌥ + Menu> ‘Check Now’ dropdown. It 
>>>>>> works here in both release and beta for me in OS 13.2.1 and 13.3 
>>>>>> on MM 1.14 5950 and later. Is your keyboard somehow buggered up 
>>>>>> gloving you the codes (maybe ⌘ instead?). You can bring up a 
>>>>>> layout screen to confirm. Open Keyboard Settings to check.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Henry Seiden
>>>>>> - -
>>>>>> Techworks Pro Co.
>>>>>> E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com
>>>>>> W: http://techworkspro.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20 Mar 2023, at 15:46, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure if this has to do with restoring my Mac from a 
>>>>>>> backup, but I'm not longer able to use the keyboard shortcut ⌥ 
>>>>>>> + "Check Now" under the Software Update section 
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