Tom Hallam
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Looking at the related issues, this bug has been around for at least 5 years.
Given a basic work around is to check for write access and gracefully skip downloads, a fairly trivial process, there is really no reason this bug has not been at least worked around.
Test for this bug is trivial.
Log on as Admin (privileged) user.
Install application as privileged user.
Log off
Log on as normal user
Start up Minecraft
When Minecraft tries to download something (not sure what as the install is up to date) if gives erroneous error message about DMG and crashes….
There may be an edge case where Minecraft runs and does not do a download and therefore works.
Still not fixed in 1.17.1
Issue cased by majang programmer assuming that the application directory is writable by normal users. Whilst this may be the case for MS Windows it is a REALLY BAD SECURITY practice and most OS do not allow this. The assumption of write access also does not have reasonable guard tests, so rather than gracefully continuing or requesting elevated privileges, the application gives a completely misleading error message and crashes… Really sloppy programming. Root cause needs fixing
This bug is still present on current IOS and Android. Devices locale settings are ignored, and US date format is used for listing last modification time on worlds.
US date format is only used in a very few countries, by a small proportion on the worlds population. Even in America, only the US use that format. If you want an international default then use the ANSI / ISO standard date format.
Setting categories for a bug should not be something that a customer should be expected to do when they report a bug. That should be part of your internal triage process. Please update it if your internal process requires it.