Caprine: Refusal to stay signed in

[arcues19875]

Every time I close out of Caprine, it instantly logs me out, having to log in again every time that I open Caprine. I have closed out of it using the Quit Caprine button, I have done Command + Q and have tried logging out of it, logging back in and quitting with the same result.

Caprine 2.36.0
Electron 5.0.6
darwin 18.7.0
Locale: en-GB

[khvnhtung]

Same problem for me.
Caprine 2.36.0
MacOS Mojave 10.14.6

[sneila]

same here

[realtaras]

Same issue for me.

[stevyhacker]

Here as well.

[RaunoT]

Can confirm.

[epicserve]

I can't seem to sign in at all or type in the username and password fields. This started today for me.

Versions

macOS Mojave: 10.14.16
Caprine: 2.36.0 (2.36.0.1586)

[CvX]

@epicserve This one is related to #712, as a workaround you can just temporarily disable vibrancy and/or dark mode.

[ssztemberg]

How to disable auto app updates?

[epicserve]

@CvX, Thanks for the help, unfortunately, I ran into a new issue where my security key for 2FA doesn't work. Has that issue been reported at all?

[ookangzheng]

Me too ~~ 2FA and blank scren

[DaivikGoel]

Same issue here

[epicserve]

I think it would be helpful to stop with the "me too" posts and just add a thumbs up to issue at the top. The "me too" posts spam everyone following the issue and add unnecessary clutter to sort through. 🙂

[matkaz]

It might be a duplicate of #1036

[khvnhtung]

It's the MeToo movement but for programmers.

[hieuhuynh93]

Same here. I have no enabled the vibrancy option.

[ookangzheng]

How to disable auto app updates?

There's no way to stop auto app update, It kinda sucks that I have to use Firewall(Littlesnitch) to block caprine from surfing github.com. 🙅‍♂

[zebapy]

Not sure autoupdate matters. I just downloaded v1 and still same problem cause it's gotta be due to messenger website.

[thisiskeithb]

There's no way to stop auto app update, It kinda sucks that I have to use Firewall(Littlesnitch) to block caprine from surfing github.com. 🙅‍♂

Ohhhh, I didn't even think to do that. Blocking now!

edit: As everyone else is reporting, won’t stay signed in when relaunched.

[stevensacks]

Same. It's definitely the latest version.

[gentb]

Caprine 2.36.0
macOS 10.14.5

Got it to work by uninstalling with AppCleaner (note: this will remove any settings via pref/config files you have set on caprine). Drag and drop Caprine from applications dir into AppCleaner and remove all files suggested.

Then proceed normally with a clean reinstall of 2.36.0.

[mgol]

@gentb That helped, thanks a lot!

[hieuhuynh93]

@gentb Thanks. That helped. We also can use either AppCleaner or CleanMyMac to uninstall the current Caprine app. The issue was resolved.

[shivaalroy]

@gentb thank you! worked for me

[antonio-ramadas]

I uninstalled Caprine, removed Caprine's folder in the userData directory and then installed again. It solved the problem! I had no need to either use AppCleaner or CleanMyMac to have the issue fixed.

I think uninstalling Caprine was an unnecessary step. Just removing the directory with the app closed should be effective as well.

If you want to try the same, the directory I mentioned is:

• %APPDATA% on Windows
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config on Linux
• ~/Library/Application\ Support on macOS

In case you are wondering how I got to these directories:

1. Caprine uses electron-store to save its state. We can check its usage in _config.ts_.
2. electron-store uses userData as the default path. Underlying, this package uses the electron API app.getPath(name).

[Mattrak]

Confirm that just removing the directory is effective. Thanks!

[dusansimic]

This seems to be fixed by https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/issues/1044#issuecomment-521925982. I'll close this now.