HamsterDR Posted June 6, 2019 Posted June 6, 2019 I purchased Affinity Photo several years ago, but don't currently have it installed. Yesterday, the Apple App Store downloaded and installed the new version on my iMac Pro without me asking that it do so. In addition, it installed it to an external backup drive that has backups of my applications - not to my internal Macintosh HD Applications folder. I also have a MBA, and when going to the App Store, I can see the update with the option to download - it doesn't automatically install. I'm trying to understand what happened. How can the App Store download and install without my permission and why did it install on the wrong drive? This is really pretty bizarre. I'm running the current version of Mojave on both systems. David Quote
Staff stokerg Posted June 7, 2019 Staff Posted June 7, 2019 Hi HamsterDR, If you had the App Store setup to automatically update apps, that would be how it's downloaded without you knowing. It's an option in Preferences and enabled by default i believe. As for it downloading to the external drive, i've no idea why that would happen and not sure if you can setup something like that with the App Store. Might be worth asking Apple about that as they handle the install process of apps from the App Store and it's not something we have much control over. Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 7, 2019 Posted June 7, 2019 I have a guess: Perhaps Photo was installed on that machine at one time, and the MAS was configured for automatic download and update. And then, perhaps, David "uninstalled" Photo by simply moving it to the backup drive, rather than deleting it. If so, that might have appeared to the MAS as though the appication was still installed, but just moved to a new location. In that scenario, the MAS would update the version on the backup drive. stokerg 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
HamsterDR Posted June 7, 2019 Author Posted June 7, 2019 That's a reasonable guess - but AP has never been installed on this system and when I set it up I didn't "migrate" software off the old iMac (which did have AP installed). I guess the App Store has configurations for each system which would be why my MBA doesn't have this issue - but then, this is also a new system which doesn't have the software installed and the App Store should have a configuration stored for it too. It's also very strange that the configuration pointed to my backup drive. Many of my apps are backed up in this volume and all the other App Store applications update to the correct location. I dragged the AP app back to my applications folder on the iMac Pro, and it runs fine from there. I have an "uninstaller" program that I can use, but I didn't think it was needed for an App Store application. I decided long ago that AP was not for me so will remove it. David Quote
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