[OS X Emacs] Verifying Aquamacs

[Bill Rising]

I get the same behavior when checking for updates (just a message 'Mark set'), when using Aquamacs 3.5 under Catalina 10.5.4. BUT I've not had any problems with verifying Aquamacs, so the two behaviors are likely independent of one another.

Bill

> On Apr 21, 2020, at 12:41, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> If you’re running Catalina (10.15) and it happens intermittently, this is either a “bug” or “a weird interaction across Apple’s increasingly complex security and privacy mechanisms” that several people have reported in various settings, but that no one I know of, at least, understands the root cause of. (which, yes, is not exactly helpful..)
> 
> Yes, I'm on Catalina, v. 10.15.4. The  the progress window [Verifying Aquamacs.app], started popping up each 1-2 days, recently, but I can't say exactly when.
> 
> One thing to try, though, is to delete your old copy of Aquamacs, download a fresh copy, and install it directly in your /Applications folder, (with no intermediate copies, installing or running it from somewhere else, etc.). Then make sure you’re connected to the net and try running it again. 
> 
> This is of course complete voodoo and may make no difference whatsoever if what’s happening is that you’re hitting a bug in Catalina. But it does address a couple of possible causes, so who knows - it's potentially worth a try.
> 
> I'm not sure how and where I may have intermediate copies of Aquamacs, because each updates removes the older version. Just in case, I trashed Aquamacs.app and its dmg (the latest  dmg is automatically kept in Downloads,) in the .Trash. Then, I downloaded Aquamacs from
> https://aquamacs.org
> (by the top icon Download Version 3.5 for Mac OS X (except El Capitan) which downloads it from githhub)
> 
> I installed and run Aquamacs in the usual way, and verification went ok, I think. Checking for updates doesn't respond properly, i.e.:
> 
> Aquamacs > Check for Updates...
> is quiet, just producing a note in the command line of Aquamacs:
> Mark set
> 
> While this should produce a message that the current version is the newest.
> 
> To make sure that the download doesn't somehow interfere with the Aquamacs.app in .Trash, I emptied .Trash, and did everything once again:
> - deleted the Aquamacs.app and its dmg
> - Empty .Trash
> - did fresh download and install
> 
> Again, checking for updates again doesn't respond properly, as above, i.e.:
> 
> Aquamacs > Check for Updates...
> is quiet, just producing a note in the command line of Aquamacs:
> Mark set
> 
> I do not know whether the progress window [Verifying Aquamacs.app] will pop up again and if yes when.
> Because checking for updates doesn't go  as it should, perhaps the progress window [Verifying Aquamacs.app] will pop up again. I'll let you know, perhaps tomorrow.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Roussanka
> 
>  
> cheers, -john
> 
> 
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