How Prodoozie updates, and what to do when no update appears
Prodoozie checks for a new version once a day and installs nothing without being asked.
How an update reaches you
- A found update appears as a quiet pill on Home. Click it when you are ready.
- The update window only opens when Prodoozie is already the app you are looking at. It never jumps in front of what you are doing.
- No check ever runs during a recording. Installing an update quits and relaunches the app, which would end the take. If you ask for a check mid-recording, Prodoozie refuses and says why.
- To check on demand: the menu bar icon, or Settings → Check for Updates….
No update ever appears
Almost always the app is not in a place it can replace itself.
- Quit Prodoozie.
- If Applications already holds a copy called iRecord, move it to the Trash. Your Recordings and your licence are not inside it.
- Open the disk image and drag Prodoozie onto the Applications alias inside it.
- Eject the disk image and launch Prodoozie from Applications.
Two locations look normal and cannot update: running the app straight off the mounted disk image (the image is read-only), and running a still-quarantined copy from wherever it was downloaded — macOS executes that from a read-only temporary location. Moving it to Applications fixes both.
"The app is damaged." The download did not complete cleanly. Delete it, empty the Trash and download again. If it happens a second time, write in — see Contacting support.
If you had iRecord
iRecord is now Prodoozie. The update that renamed it changed the name and nothing else: your Recordings, your licence and the permissions you granted all carry over, and there is nothing to do.
A few places keep the old name:
- The app in Applications may still be called iRecord after the update. It is the same app, and it keeps updating.
- Recordings stay in
~/Movies/iRecord/. See Where recordings are stored. - System Settings → Privacy & Security may still list the app as iRecord.
Still stuck? Contacting support