Using brew update seems to break some application schemes

[qupig]

Description of issue

When some apps are updated using brew update someapp, the related schemes of the app may be broken.

For example, it may not be possible by double-clicking to open a file with an associated extension (especially if the App is already open). Or open it through the context menu->open with->select the corresponding App. Or drag and drop files onto the App dock icon.

The issue seems to be that the update app has not been authenticated by Apple's pop-up window "Do you want to open this app downloaded from the Internet?" and re-register the relevant LaunchServices? (I'm not sure about the details)

Unless you open the App through these files before opening the App, it may trigger Apple to re-pop up the authorization window, but the problem is that this will destroy the Sessions history of some Apps.

An example is vscode, if I open vscode directly after brew update, it will show the session (all open states and projects) from the last time it was closed, but at that point I can't easily drag and drop a file onto the vscode dock icon to open that file. Unless I close the whole vscode and do the same, it brings up the Apple authorization pop-up and then the file is opened but the last sessions is lost.

One work around is to avoid using brew update someapp and instead use brew uninstall theapp; brew install theapp to update the app so that Apple's authorization pop-up even when the app is opened directly after the update and the last sessions are retained.

That is, The brew update someapp process seems to need some improvements to avoid this issue.

I should mention that the same situation exists even with brew reinstall someapp, I'm not sure why.

[rezzawi]

Not the most knowledgable when it comes to the use of terminal and coding in general, but I can say that ever since doing brew update a few days ago, apps have been closing randomly as you are saying.

Is there a way to stop this? Maybe updating to the most recent OS?

I am currently on macOS Monterey version 12.7.2 - MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports).

[rezzawi]

*Apps that close the most are Word (use of maximaWM, and gnuplot (gnuplot installed but doesn't work)) and safari. It has happened once with Unity and GitHub Desktop though.

[qupig]

I didn't say "closing randomly", perhaps an irrelevant issue.