[Ipe-discuss] Ipe spontaneously downgrades

[Otfried Cheong]

I do not know much about Macs, but I'm pretty sure you can still start
the program by calling it from the command line - using the full path
/Applications/Ipe.app/Contents/MacOS/ipe.   Then at least you know for
sure what executable you are calling (actually this isn't the
executable, it's a shell script - the Ipe program itself is in
/Applications/Ipe.app/Contents/local/bin/ipe, I believe).

Did you check the file modification dates?  Did anything inside the
/Applications/Ipe.app folder get replaced since you put Ipe 7.1.8 there?

Do you have some backup software or TimeMachine activated? 

Otfried

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015, at 18:58, Monique Teillaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> macos is not like linux
> The executable is /Applications/Ipe.app/Contents/MacOS/ipe
> "which ipe" cannot find it, it is not in my $PATH
> 
> sudo find / -name "ipe"
> finds it, and it finds no other
> 
> Best,
> -- 
> Monique Teillaud
> http://www.loria.fr/~teillaud/
> INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, LORIA
> Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
> 
> Le 03/11/15 16:33, Wojciech Zabolotny a écrit :
> > You can also use the command "which"
> > which ipe
> > It should return the path to that ipe that gets executed.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Wojtek
> >
> > 31 paź 2015 05:16 "Otfried Cheong" <otfried at ipe.airpost.net
> > <mailto:otfried at ipe.airpost.net>> napisał(a):
> >
> >     Hi Monique,
> >
> >     how do you launch Ipe?  Try launching from the command line, and
> >     checking exactly what path is being used.  I can only guess that you
> >     still have 7.1.5 installed somewhere else (that is, you have more than
> >     one Ipe installation on your computer, and the wrong one is being used).
> >
> >     You could try a  find / -name "Ipe*"
> >
> >     Ipe does not contain any code to update/downgrade itself, and no "if
> >     Monique" either :-)
> >
> >     Otfried
> >
> >     On Fri, Oct 30, 2015, at 23:38, Monique Teillaud wrote:
> >      > Hi,
> >      >
> >      > Something very weird is happening on my laptop (MacOS 10.9.5).
> >      >
> >      > I installed Ipe 7.1.8 a few days ago from the dmg, everything
> >     went well,
> >      > I could draw my picture, no problem.
> >      > But when I launched Ipe again a few hours later, it was Ipe 7.1.5
> >     (the
> >      > version that I had before 7.1.8) that opened.
> >      > I manually removed Ipe 7.1.5 (rm -rf Ipe.app in /Applications), I
> >      > reinstalled 7.1.8, and the same phenomenon occurred later. The same
> >      > thing is happening again and again, I had to reinstall 7.1.8 several
> >      > times in the past few days.
> >      >
> >      > Any idea?
> >      >
> >      >       Monique
> >      > PS: Otfried, did you put some "if Monique" in the code? ;)
> >      >
> >      > --
> >      > Monique Teillaud
> >      > http://www.loria.fr/~teillaud/
> >      > INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, LORIA
> >      > Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
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