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Howard Brazee

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:49:31 AM11/3/09
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I often have trouble with upgrading Opera on my Windows machine, but
yesterday I had problems on my Mac. With Windows, I end up
downloading the upgrade with Firefox and running it from there.

Yesterday I tried several times to upgrade to 10.0.1 on my Mac. Each
time it downloads something, closes Opera, re-opens Opera, and tells
me "A new version of Opera was downloaded, but the update was not
applied.".

I looked for a file updated today in the finder but found nothing that
looked like an Opera installation program.

I don't give myself administrator privileges on the Mac, so normal
upgrades ask for my administrator name and password. I didn't get
any such window when I tried this upgrade.

I looked for a site to download the installation program but only
found betas.

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OPERA

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Nov 3, 2009, 1:38:49 PM11/3/09
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Howard, I think you might want to post this to the Opera Mac newsgroup for more response.

"Howard Brazee" <how...@brazee.net> wrote in message
news:euc0f59244vrt3ag7...@4ax.com...

David W. Hodgins

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Nov 3, 2009, 1:36:08 PM11/3/09
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:49:31 -0500, Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net> wrote:

> I looked for a site to download the installation program but only
> found betas.

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/mac/1001/

Regards, Dave Hodgins


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Howard Brazee

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Nov 3, 2009, 1:46:47 PM11/3/09
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:38:49 -0600, "OPERA" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:

>Howard, I think you might want to post this to the Opera Mac newsgroup for more response.

Will do, thanks.

Rijk van Geijtenbeek

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Nov 6, 2009, 5:56:41 PM11/6/09
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Op Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:49:31 +0100 schreef Howard Brazee
<how...@brazee.net>:

> I often have trouble with upgrading Opera on my Windows machine, but
> yesterday I had problems on my Mac. With Windows, I end up
> downloading the upgrade with Firefox and running it from there.
>
> Yesterday I tried several times to upgrade to 10.0.1 on my Mac. Each
> time it downloads something, closes Opera, re-opens Opera, and tells
> me "A new version of Opera was downloaded, but the update was not
> applied.".
>
> I looked for a file updated today in the finder but found nothing that
> looked like an Opera installation program.
>
> I don't give myself administrator privileges on the Mac, so normal
> upgrades ask for my administrator name and password. I didn't get
> any such window when I tried this upgrade.
>
> I looked for a site to download the installation program but only
> found betas.

http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=mac&list=all

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Howard Brazee

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Nov 9, 2009, 9:28:21 AM11/9/09
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Logging on to my administrator account allows me to upgrade Opera.
This is the only application I have that has this requirement.
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Howard Brazee

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Nov 11, 2009, 1:59:54 PM11/11/09
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:10:48 +0000, Ian Anderson
<an...@127.0.0.1.invalid> wrote:

>>Logging on to my administrator account allows me to upgrade Opera.
>>This is the only application I have that has this requirement.
>

>I login to Win 7 as a user with administrative privileges "Not The
>Administrator"
>
>When you normally login do you have administrative privileges?

Nope, but with OS-X any other programs give me a dialog to enter my
administrator ID & password which allow me to finish the
installation/upgrade. I don't remember whether I got that dialog
with Opera, but at any rate, I couldn't finish the upgrade.

>Since Win.3.1 I have always needed to be logged in with administrative
>privileges in order to run and install new programs, now Win 7.

Naruki Bigglesworth

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Nov 11, 2009, 7:10:45 PM11/11/09
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:59:54 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:10:48 +0000, Ian Anderson
> <an...@127.0.0.1.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>Logging on to my administrator account allows me to upgrade Opera.
>>>This is the only application I have that has this requirement.
>>
>>I login to Win 7 as a user with administrative privileges "Not The
>>Administrator"
>>
>>When you normally login do you have administrative privileges?
>
> Nope, but with OS-X any other programs give me a dialog to enter my
> administrator ID & password which allow me to finish the
> installation/upgrade. I don't remember whether I got that dialog
> with Opera, but at any rate, I couldn't finish the upgrade.
>
>>Since Win.3.1 I have always needed to be logged in with administrative
>>privileges in order to run and install new programs, now Win 7.

In Windows you have to right click the shortcut and choose "Run as Administrator" to do that
sort of thing.

This can be problematic when your program has to launch other programs, such as a ZIP file that
unpacks and executes. I think the authority only extends to the first program. So I have to log
in as Admin for those types.

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