![]() Obviously I have not moved the application file anywhere, I am merely running the installer. "The executable currently located at file:///private/var/folders/wl//T/AppTranslocation//d/Dropbox.app/ is translocated and can't be launched., NSLocalizedDescription=The application cannot be used from this location." (Elipses added by me.) A text dump is provided, the relevant bit I think being this: After some time however, it errors out, and states as before that it cannot launch. After opening it, the Dropbox menu appears for awhile opening the menu shows the Starting Up animation. So I downloaded the Dropbox Offline Installer (Dropbox 1.dmg). ![]() So I attempted to re-install Dropbox in order to ensure that I had the latest version.Īfter downloading, the Dropbox Installer attempted to run, but ran into a problem, stating that it couldn't download the program it asked if I wanted to try a different downloader (this despite the fact that it was in the Install phase of the process). I proceeded to restart my computer, but this did not solve the problem. So I quit the Dropbox application from the menu, but it would no longer re-launch, stating that there was an error of some sort. After a moment, I was told that the Dropbox Helper application wasn't responding, and to quit and relaunch Dropbox. I then selected all the folders that I didn't need downloaded to my computer and selected "Make Online Only". ls -l will show it as -r-r-r-.).The internal drive which hosts my Dropbox Folder was nearing capacity, so I stopped syncing via the Dropbox menu. Mode 444 means the file is read-only for everybody (user, group and other. Instructions for using vi is beyond the scope of this message, but if you need them, here’s a tutorial.Īfter you save the text file, make it read-only: $ sudo chmod 444 "/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app" Then insert a line of text and save the file. ![]() $ sudo vi "/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app" From a Terminal: $ sudo rm -rf "/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app" A tiny (51 byte, in this case) text file works just as well. Whether or not they actually downloaded 12GB in order to discard the data, I don’t know. At least I assume they did, because this morning, there was yet another notification on my screen asking me to install Monterey.īut there was no app-installer and the read-only file remains in place as it was last week. I’m assuming a read-only file is likely to work better than a symlink to /dev/null.Īnyway, a week later, Apple tried again. ![]() I created a bogus text file (via Pages) (size about 92 KB), and changed the file name to “Install macOS Monterey.app”, and then put this file into the Applications folder, and locked the file.Īfter reading your post, I decided to do the same thing. There are still people on limited and/or fixed bandwidth caps and with the size of the current installers wasting 12 GB or more several times is a bad idea on their part…heck, I’ve got a limit of 1TB per month on cable and I generally only download the installer once and then move it to the other machines in the household. It’s just like…to me anyway…the constant asking about location permissions on iOS and iPadOS…I can understand them offering me the choice that say Weather has used my location 17 times in the past 3 days and do I want to keep allowing that…but once a user has said “allow permanently” 2 times then they should accept that answer and quit asking about it…or at least make it only every 3 months or something. Since there’s clearly a choice in System Preferences…they should honor the user’s choice. I find myself thinking that this constant and forced downloading isn’t a bug but rather an intentional decision on Apple’s part…hoping that users will ‘accidentally’ upgrade and hence perhaps reduce the support calls to Apple.
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