Impossible to install any extensions on any release of Mac OS Catalina.
Reported version
3.3
Type
Plugins
Frequency
Once
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Using macOS catalina, press help on the toolbar, open resource manager, attempt to press any install buttons. The extension downloads, but fails, producing the following error message: "Cannot import extension on read-only storage: Macintosh HD". Please fix!!!
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Comments
Duplicate of #296452: Extensions not Installing in Musescore 3.3 on macOS Catalina . This is being investigated but so far it seems to be Apple's fault.
In reply to Duplicate of #296452:… by mike320
This is an odd definition of "fault". Yes, Catalina broke some applications that had been storing things in the root. Is anyone reading this familiar with the extension code? Is there, in fact, common core code dealing with extensions with hard-coded paths wired in? Does it indeed store code or data in a directory off of the root? Other products have had to deal with this (e.g., Hauptwerk),.
It seems that in a newer version of Musescore, these issues were fixed
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.