Subler update is not working

[Markus Mayer]

I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.5. I am currently running Subler 1.5.16, which I manually installed, because “Check for updates” wasn’t working.

However, now that I am running the latest version, “Check for updates” is still not working. I get the same error as before:

Subler can't be updated, because it was opened from a read-only or a temporary location. Use Finder to copy Subler to the Applications folder, relaunch it from there, and try again.

Subler has been installed in the Applications folder. So, it is not being executed from a read-only location as it claims. I am assuming this has something to do with macOS containers and restricting disk access.

$ df | grep Sub
/Applications/Subler.app 2.0T 1.4T 626G 69% /private/var/folders/b8/4w9j17m515l9m8jdn4dxdh6h0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/C3095385-7E94-483D-8818-42E072BD50E1

I am surprised nobody else seems to have reported this problem.

Is there a known solution?

[Damiano Galassi]

After you decompress the zip, you have to move the Subler.app to another folder. macOS runs apps that aren’t manually moved from a read-only filesystem.

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If you want more info search for “App Translocation”

[Markus Mayer]

Thanks. I tried a few times, but it kept throwing the error.

What worked in the end was to use wget to download the ZIP file (as opposed to using Safari) and extracting the ZIP directly into /Applications from the command line.