[PD-dev] "About Pd" folder references
Dan Wilcox
danomatika at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 13:26:50 CEST 2018
That's probably app sandboxing: "An app distributed outside the Mac App Store runs from a randomized path when it is launched..."
from http://krypted.com/mac-security/app-translocation-services-os-x-10-12/ <http://krypted.com/mac-security/app-translocation-services-os-x-10-12/>
Funny that the strings loaded for the text file are changed, though.
> On Sep 26, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
> Just found the following very perplexing directories listed by Pd’s “About Pd” window. I re-downloaded 0.48-2 and saw a similar listing. The paths are accurate and can be navigated in the terminal. This appears to be the result of macOS AppTranslocation, and probably a headache to deal with, but I can’t imagine that this display is useful to users in its current state:
>
> Pd 0.49.0
>
> A real-time graphical programming environment for live interactive
> computer music, Pd works on Linux, Apple macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
>
> Pd is copyrighted, but is free for you to use for any reasonable purpose.
> See the file:
> /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/LICENSE.txt
>
> Reference documentation for Pd lives in:
> /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/doc/1.manual/index.htm
> or online:
> http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/ <http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/>
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Dan Wilcox
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