Update does not update after restart

Bug Reports
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MacOS Cursor repeatedly tells me that there’s an update, but then after pushing “Update now” it exits and never restarts. When I manually restart it’s back to showing me there’s an update. I redownloaded from the website. I deleted Application Support/Cursor. I tried every combination. It just won’t update.

Version: 0.50.5 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 96e5b01ca25f8fbd4c4c10bc69b15f6228c80770
Date: 2025-05-18T04:16:01.651Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

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idk how access privileges work in macOS but i faced a similar issue in linux. The app was stored in the /opt folder which requires administrator privileges to write to. My fix was to move the location of the app into my user account folder where administrator privileges are not required for read/write.

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Thank you. That’s cursed, but moving it from /Applications to ~/Applications fixed it for me.

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no worries!