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promoCode file and Brave folder created when downloading .pkg file for channels other than Release

See original GitHub issue

Description

Found while testing #4519 and per comment from @emerick could be related to https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/4600 as well.

When Nightly, Dev, Beta are installed from .pkg file, an extra Brave folder is created under BraveSoftware (~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware) which contains a promoCode file. This shouldn’t happen as per discussion on #4519.

Steps to Reproduce

Make sure you don’t have Nightly installed.
Install latest Nightly from .pkg file.
Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware.
You will see a Brave folder here, and in it, a promoCode file that says “Browser-Nightly”.
Repeat for Dev and Beta channels.

Actual result:

Nightly

Expected result:

No extra Brave folder with promoCode file.

Reproduces how often:

easily

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	0.69.49 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build)nightly (64-bit)
Revision	cd0b15c8b6a4e70c44e27f35c37a4029bad3e3b0-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1033}
OS	Mac OS X

Brave	0.68.98 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) dev(64-bit)
Revision	cd0b15c8b6a4e70c44e27f35c37a4029bad3e3b0-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1033}
OS	Mac OS X

Brave	0.67.106 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	cd0b15c8b6a4e70c44e27f35c37a4029bad3e3b0-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1033}
OS	Mac OS X

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? no, does not occur on Release channel
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? yes

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? n/a
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? n/a
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? n/a

Miscellaneous Information:

cc @aekeus @emerick @kjozwiak

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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emerickcommented, Sep 4, 2019

Hi @kjozwiak No, neither RED-194 nor red-194 should be considered a promo code. The only valid promo codes are in one of two formats:

XXXYYY, where X is any letter and Y is any number and the entire promo code is 6 characters long
XXXXX-XXXXX where X is any letter (no digits allowed) and there is no length limit in either component

And yep, we use BRV001 as the default promo code now. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/2547 for more details.

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kjozwiakcommented, Sep 4, 2019

awesome, thanks @emerick 👍

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