On 26-04-2011, at 14:57, Henrique Andrade wrote: > 25 de abril de 2011 Allin escreveu: > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Henrique Andrade wrote: > > > Recently I noticed that the Gretl updating procedure is a lit bit different. > > In the past, all I needed was to drag the file Gretl.app (inside the > > gretl-intel.dmg file) to my Applications folder. Now I need firstly to > > delete the older version and then copy the new one to Applications folder. > > > > Now, if I try to update in the old way Mac OS/X tells me the file is blocked > > and I have no permission to overwrite Gretl.app (I'm the only administrator > > of my machine). > > > > Is this an expected behaviour? > > Well, it's what OS X now seems to do (at least part of the time). > The gretl installer hasn't changed; the behavior of OS X has. If > you can figure out how exactly OS X has changed in this respect > (e.g. via google) perhaps we can find a workaround. > > As it may be a specific problem occuring here at my machine, I think > the issue can be related with Mac OS X permissions on my Mac. > > In the next couple of days I will perform an Snow Leopard reinstallation > (that I doon a regular annual basis just for keep a "clean system"). > > As soon as I reinstall Gretl I'll report if the behaviour persists.
I also run Gretl on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 Normally I use my own build of Gretl. I first ran my own build and quit Gretl. Then downloaded Allin's build and installed it (by dragging to /Applications). Started Gretl without problems. Quit Gretl and quit X11. I tried to reinstall my own build and then got the message you have mentioned (some items are blocked). I tried several times and kept getting the error message. But the weird thing is you can delete Gretl.app from /Applications without any error message. And then I installed my own Gretl without any further error messages. I wouldn't be surprised if this is Finder getting confused about something or other. I vaguely remember seeing this happen with installing other applications. Berend
