I tried to follow your suggestion. No luck. This is the message box that appeared
Cannot Copy Licence File
The new licence file at "/Applications/avast!.app" cannot be copied to "/Users/MYNAME/Library/Application Support/com.avast.MacAvast/licence.dat". You may want to check access rights.
Again, I didn't keep Avast on my old computer--just wanted to transfer it over to my new one. Any other ideas?
kjg
Hallo,
sigh, this message repeats again and again, and I really don't understand, why. What do all the people do in the license dialog? It's purpose is to pick a license file, and then to press "select". Easy peasy.
The subsequent message looks like people confuse, again and again, the license file (= textual, bare file, human readable, ~1kB long) with the APPLICATION ITSELF. The message says that it was not possible to copy avast (= app meta-dir itself) to the rightful place of license file - and for me it looks like you just clicked on avast!.app, instead on license file. You and many others. Can you confirm this?
Otherwise it might be some suspicious non-deterministic bug, but never seen/reproduced on our machines.
regards,
pc