[0.17.16] Update failed (due to file permissions error?)

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[0.17.16] Update failed (due to file permissions error?)

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I receive the following error message while trying to update via the in-game system:
Update failed: Applying update packages failed: Updating file __PATH__read-data__/changelog.txt failed: filesystem error: remove "/private/var/folders/16/r12n2v_j5s1fx7m73q4vz_9m0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/3154BFB6-9A58-4CC3-8356-6FAFE94998AA/d/factorio.app/Contents/data/changelog.txt" failed: Permission denied
This is on a mac powerbook running 10.14.1 Mojave. It works fine on my Windows PC.

It's probably worth noting that I had also been unable to install either 0.17 or 0.16 via the manual download and install. (Through a rather embarrassing comedy of errors trying to get 0.17 I deleted my 0.16 install before realizing all I had to do was check the right box and my current installation would have handled it for me.) I kept getting a similar error message while trying to copy the factorio.app from the disk image (dmg) to the Applications folder—the error message then was a Finder error -36, also a permissions issue, so I'm guessing they are related. I was able to get around the install issue by coping it over via Terminal and everything seemed to be working fine. Thinking this issue was related, I tried chmod to update permissions, and got an error saying it couldn't do so because it was a system file. I was able to update permissions of the changelog.txt file located in /Applications/factorio.app/Contents/data (which changes the reported permissions in the /private folder), but that has not resolved the issue.
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Re: [0.17.16] Update failed (due to file permissions error?)

Post by Rseding91 »

Thanks for the report however that looks and sounds like it's not a problem with Factorio but a problem with the file permissions on your computer. I'm going to move this to technical help.
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