[PD-dev] "About Pd" folder references

[Dan Wilcox]

The quarantine bit is still set, for some reason. It should be disabled once you allow running it and move it from Downloads. Try downloading another copy, running it, then moving out of Downloads.

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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
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> On Sep 26, 2018, at 7:34 PM, Kevin Haywood <khaywood at ucsd.edu> wrote:
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> Pd isn’t in the Downloads folder, however. It’s where I’ve always kept my versions of Pd, in /Applications/Pd/
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>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 4:35 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Short answer: move the app out of the Downloads folder
>> 
>> Long answer:
>> 
>> In testing, I see this is happening if you run the app form the Downloads folder. The OS keeps track of downloaded binaries and auto-sandboxes them, apparently, by opening them within a temporary image somwhere. When Pd starts up, sys_libdir is set using the current working directory and picks up this temp location. sys_libdir is then used to generate the paths in the About file. When you move the .app somewhere else, this sandboxing no longer happens and the About paths look correct.
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>>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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/
>>> 
>>> 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/
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>> Dan Wilcox
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