How to solve "TextMate is running on a read-only file system and can therefore not be updated."
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When using Textmate, I'm regularly prompted to upgrade:
> TextMate 2.0.23 is now available. You have version 2.0.19. Would you like to download it now?
However, if I choose the upgrade option, I immediately see a dialog with this error:
> TextMate is running on a read-only file system and can therefore not be updated.
>
> If you downloaded TextMate from the internet then moving it out of the Downloads folder should solve the problem.
Textmate isn't in my Downloads folder; it's in
/Applications
. Its permissions look like this:
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 sam staff 96 15 Feb 2021 TextMate.app
It wasn't installed via brew, so upgrading it that way isn't an option. How could I do an upgrade? Is removing the app and reinstalling it the only way?
I'm on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1519).
Asked by Sam
(101 rep)
Nov 9, 2021, 02:15 PM
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