Installing on a Mac

[billWCG85]

I've seen this posted for the last 4 years with no clear answer. The problem I'm having is that after downloading the .dmg, and opening the Autodesk Client Downloader, it says to Right-Click>Open to install.app Then it tells me the latest version is already installed and do I want to start Fusion 360. Is an app or shortcut to the program supposed to be installed in my applications folder? The only way I can make this work is saving an alias to that installer, and going through the process every time. Would that change if I purchased the product? This may be exactly the way it's supposed to work, checking for updates on startup? OS 12.2.1

[RajkumarIlanchelian]

@billWCG85 Can I ask why are you installing Fusion often? Once you install Fusion, if there is an update, it will recognize this on Fusion launch and download it. Then one the next restart it puts you on the latest version. Very curious why you are installing multiple times? 

Also, the fact that you are receiving the message that you already have the latest version available makes me believe that you are likely using a shortcut to launch Fusion that is not valid any longer. 

1. Go to the below location

2. In the application folder you should see Fusion 360. If you are creating a shortcut use this to create the shortcut
3. You can also find Fusion 360 in your launchpad as another launch vehicle

Hope some of this helps. Once again I am very curious why you are installing when you already have Fusion 360 on your machine. 

[billWCG85]

Thanks for your help. I'm installing every time because Fusion didn't put that .app shortcut into my applications folder like I would expect. I found it by following your example, now I can put a shortcut to it rather than the installer.

Thanks again

[billWCG85]

Ah, found the problem, I have 2 operating systems on my Mac and it was installing on the secondary system. Anyway, thanks so much for your help.

Bill