apparition47/MailTrackerBlocker

double installation

core-code opened this issue · 3 comments

core-code commented

sorry for the stupid "issue" but it seems after installing MailTrackerBlocker we end up with two installed copies:

/Library/Mail/Bundles/MailTrackerBlocker.mailbundle
~/Library/Application Support/Mail/Plug-ins/Bundles/Library/Mail/Bundles/MailTrackerBlocker.mailbundle

which one is the actually required one? would installing just one single copy suffice?

apparition47 commented

Mail keeps all available plugins in either /Library/Mail/Bundles (global plugins dir) or ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (user plugins dir) then copies it to ~/Library/Application Support/Mail/Plug-ins/Bundles/Library/Mail/Bundles/ (enabled plugins dir) when you enable any given plugin.

Unfortunately, you need to keep both copies as Mail will check if the copies match on startup--I think for plugin update purposes.

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core-code commented

thanks for the explanation!

i guess the "enable" part is also done by the installer because the "private" copy is there even after just running the installer PKG and before even launching Mail again.

apparition47 commented

Good observation. Yes, the pkg installer makes a second copy to ~/Library/Application Support/Mail/Plug-ins/Bundles/Library/Mail/Bundles/ to ensure that the plugin is automatically enabled for the user's convenience on macOS 11 and up.