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Upgrading IntelliJ IDEA after Sierra Upgrade: does not have write access to /private/var

Trying to upgrade Intellij IDEA from 2016.2 to 2016.2.5 and I am getting this error:

IDEA does not have write access to /private/var/folders/_q/7md3pcy10x9cxjdt9nzxjvdr0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/97E0DA6A-73B2-4439-91AE-F7DD0353F063/d/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents

I can't modify the permissions of that folder because it is read-only. I've tried chown and chmod as root, neither of which work.

Solution

  • So after talking to Jetbrains support, there's nothing that can be done as they can't duplicate the issue and not enough people have reported it. The patch process doesn't work but you can just download the latest version. Problem solved.