Kap must live in the Applications folder to be able to run correctly

[davidnormo]

macOS version:

ProductName:    macOS
ProductVersion: 12.6
BuildVersion:   21G115

Kap version: 3.5.5

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Kap to a directory but not ~/Applications
2. Open Kap

Current behaviour

Expected behaviour

Kap should work as normal being started from any user directory folder e.g. ~/Documents or ~/Documents/myFolder

Workaround

I was able to get it to work:

$ sudo mv ~/Documents/application/Kap.app ~/Applications

This used to work but I recently updated to Monterey (macOS 12.6) and then opening Kap failed with an error message. I updated Kap to the latest version but now it won't install from my ~/Documents/application directory.

I use this directory because I'm using a work machine that is managed and adding applications to ~/Applications requires admin authentication which I don't have.

I'm using the above workaround for now so this is only a minor issue

[timothyis]

@sindresorhus do you remember the reason for this? It would be good to document the reason.

[sindresorhus]

I prevented some issues because of App Translocation.

[timothyis]

In this case, I'll close the issue. Also because this is the first request we've received. Thanks for submitting though @davidnormo.