Re: Package installation on MacOS Sierra

2016-09-20 Thread Jonathan Mitchell
Sorry. This was a false alarm. It turns out that I was anticipating a new installation into /Applications. However I had a prior installation in username/Downloads so that got updated instead. J > On 18 Sep 2016, at 22:22, Jonathan Mitchell wrote: > > Hi > > I have a

Re: Package installation on MacOS Sierra

2016-09-19 Thread James Walker
On 9/18/2016 3:36 PM, Graham Cox wrote: I have the classic .dmg approach to installation, where a disk image includes an alias for /Applications and the user drags the app icon to it. On 10.12, the alias appears to point to nothing, and has a generic file icon. The disk image should contain a

Re: Package installation on MacOS Sierra

2016-09-18 Thread Shane Stanley
On 19 Sep 2016, at 8:36 AM, Graham Cox wrote: > > I have the classic .dmg approach to installation, where a disk image includes > an alias for /Applications and the user drags the app icon to it. On 10.12, > the alias appears to point to nothing, and has a generic file

Re: Package installation on MacOS Sierra

2016-09-18 Thread Graham Cox
> On 19 Sep 2016, at 7:22 AM, Jonathan Mitchell wrote: > > Hi > > I have a MacOS package that installs into /Applications on 10.11. > On 10.12 it appears to install into the user’s Downloads folder. > > Is this change related to the new feature in MacOS 12 to encapsulate

Package installation on MacOS Sierra

2016-09-18 Thread Jonathan Mitchell
Hi I have a MacOS package that installs into /Applications on 10.11. On 10.12 it appears to install into the user’s Downloads folder. Is this change related to the new feature in MacOS 12 to encapsulate downloaded apps into a read only container? Thanks J