Hi David, where is your copy of MailMate installed? You aren't running it from a mounted disk image volume by any chance, are you? Whenever I see "read-only filesystem", I immediately think of a mounted disk image.
-Eric On 19 May 2022, at 18:03, David Ledger wrote: > On 5/19/22 20:59, Tracy Valleau wrote: >>> 1. Why is it think it has to update software that is already up to date. >> >> No idea. Perhaps there is an incremental update? >> >>> 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). >> I cannot answer "why" - I just know that dozens of times I've seen "can't >> update" errors to an existing app, which are solved by the technique I >> suggested. >> >> Sorry it didn't work for you. >> >> T > > > I didn’t have a chance to try because it’s a MailMate initiated download so > it didn’t go into Downloads. I’ve no idea where MailMate downloads its > internal update to. > > David > > >> >> On 19 May 2022, at 12:49, David Ledger wrote: >> >>> 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@lists.freron.com >>>>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> mailmate mailing list >>>> mailmate@lists.freron.com >>>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mailmate mailing list >>> mailmate@lists.freron.com >>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >> _______________________________________________ >> mailmate mailing list >> mailmate@lists.freron.com >> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
