Oh yeah, I should have suggested you held ⌥ when launching Quicksilver to
put it into Verbose mode.

It definitely seems to be something to do with permission - Quicksilver is
unable to move / delete the old file, which is most likely caused by not
having the right permissions.

We should probably look at getting that to work properly, or even better –
using Sparkle

On 10 June 2011 23:05, Kuperman <[email protected]> wrote:

> So starting in QSUpdateController.m there is "installAppFromDiskImage"
> which calls "replaceWithUpdateFromPath" and tracing that to
> NSApplication_BLTRExtensions.m, it calls "moveToPath" which has some
> additional debugging statements.  If I enable those I get the
> following sequence in my console log:
>
> 6/10/11 8:36:53 AM      Quicksilver[16209]      Move Old 0
> 6/10/11 8:36:53 AM      /Applications/_Not_Standard/Quicksilver.app/
> Contents/MacOS/Quicksilver[16209]       Cannot make directory
> /Applications/
> _Not_Standard/Quicksilver.app: File exists
> 6/10/11 8:36:53 AM      Quicksilver[16209]      Copy New 0
> 6/10/11 8:36:53 AM      Quicksilver[16209]      Trash Old 0
>
> Not knowing Objective C but assuming it is similar to other flavors of
> C, my assumption would be that 0 is false and all 3 steps are
> failing.  However, all but the last value is ignored (apart from
> optional logging).  That one is used as the return value, but it is
> then promptly ignored by the caller "replaceWithUpdateFromPath".
>
> I'm not sure what model of error reporting is being used elsewhere in
> QS (exceptions, retvals, etc.) or how to get it to ask for admin
> permissions on the move/copy/trash functions, but those lines
> (NSApplication_BLTRExtensions.m:95-100) seem to be the source of the
> error I was encountering.
>
> On Jun 9, 6:37 pm, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > There should be an error message saying something like "couldn't copy to
> > /Applications..." if it didn't work. Interesting you didn't see this one.
> >
> > All the code related to updating is in QSUpdateController.m if you want
> to
> > have a look
> >
> > On 10 June 2011 01:45, Kuperman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 9, 4:42 am, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Could it be due to permissions problems?
> >
> > > > Probably. Do you get any messages in the console?
> >
> > > Of course.  The key one seems to be:
> >
> > > 6/9/11 11:36:52 AM      /Applications/_Not_Standard/Quicksilver.app/
> > > Contents/MacOS/Quicksilver[30418]       Cannot make directory
> > > /Applications/
> > > _Not_Standard/Quicksilver.app: File exists
> >
> > > The rest are info about verifying the download (which works) and then
> > > unmounting/ejecting and restarting.  I would have expected a different
> > > errno message, but I've not browsed the source to see exactly what is
> > > being done as part of the upgrade process.
>

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