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Offer to move MacBox.app to /Applications if launched from e.g. ~/Downloads #15

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Let's pretend a brand new user downloads MacBox.app.zip for the first time ever and because there's no hint to drag MacBox.app to /Applications, the user accidentally launches it straight from e.g. ~/Downloads
-> I think MacBox should offer to automatically move the application to /Applications instead (the standard place for macOS apps).

Describe the solution you'd like
Offer to automatically move the application to /Applications (see further below for details)

Describe alternatives you've considered
Another alternative would be to distribute MacBox as a disk image and try to persuade/trick the user to move the application to /Applications manually (i.e. the "standard" way to install macOS apps...)

I think running apps from the "macOS standard place" should be encouraged. I can't think of a valid reason not to run MacBox.app from /Applications.

Additional context
Several other applications offer to automatically move their .app file to /Applications if launched from a non-standard place. I think they might be using this or something similar: https://github.com/potionfactory/LetsMove/

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