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I just tried to test lets-move with default settings on unpackaged app.

Not sure if this is known behavior, but when ESC pressed it breaks app starting via npm start Start script electron . seems to be broken.

I think ESC calls 'Move To Application' button instead of 'Don't Move' Button by default.

$ npm start

> [email protected] start /app/path
> electron .

events.js:163
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /app/path/node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1050:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:367:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:80:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:607:11)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:427:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:151:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:542:3

Reinstalling electron helps to fix this issue

npm install electron -D

Is it possible to move – or rather copy – the file in case it's inside a mounted disk? Right now nothing happens.

Password request dialog is popping up but the file is being moved to ~/Applications instead of /Applications. I don't use ~/Applications but Chrome has placed a few folders in there so the path exists. This is confusing as all my apps are usually placed in the root /Applications.

When the destination directory is not writable you already use sudo to move the application. This works fine, but only when there is not an already existing version of the same application in that directory.

But if there is, you also try to move that already existing application with the same name to the trash. If the destination directory is not writable that fails. And then the move also fails because the destination already exists.

Most electron apps are using two packages like you can see here and here. In turn, the "electron" package won't be inside the package.json where your package sits.

This will make npm keep throwing the error!

npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of electron@* but none was installed.

When package an electron app on local machine, it works.
But when I upload the app to a web server and downloaded to Downloads folder it doesn't work. The password popup show correctly though.

Try this sample app.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85873187/gethello/Stack-1.0.0-mac.zip