Error configuring cache directory...

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🪲 Description

Downloading (or writing to disk) button asks for path and then an "error occurred" dialog appears at cache check stage: "Error configuring cache directory..."

📋 Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Mist.app
2. Click on download button to download "Install macOS Sequoia 15.1-24B2083.ipsw"
3. Wait for popup to choose download folder. (have chosen ~/Downloads and /Users/Shared/Mist with same outcome
4. Observe error which is a dialog box that says: "You don't have permission to save file "072-12295" in the folder "Cache"."

✅ Expected Behaviour

Describe what should be happening (ie. the happy path).
File should download into cache directory and then be moved to nominated directory that user has write permissions to.
Note: mist-cli is able to download same file to /Users/Shared/Mist

💻 Environment

• Mist version (App menu ⇨ About Mist): 0.20.1
• macOS Version (sw_vers): 15.2 Beta (24C5057p)
• Hardware (system_profiler SPHardwareDataType):
  • Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,3
  • Chip : Apple M1 Pro

📷 Screenshots

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ℹ️ Additional context

• Is this also a bug in mist-cli? Cli is successful
  • Provide links to GitHub Issues
• Links to 3rd-party tools / references / documentation

[hoondi]

If no one else can repeat, I'm assuming it's because I'm running a macOS 15.2 beta?

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[hoondi]

Solved.
I manually created /Users/Shared/Mist/Cache as it did not exist. I was challenged for admin rights when doing this too so this looks to be the root cause.

Also gave the folder write permissions (just in case) and Mist is now successfully downloading .ipsw files.

Best to check if this folder exists, if not, inform user what to do.

Please close.

[hoondi]

closed.