That's probably app sandboxing: "An app distributed outside the Mac App Store runs from a randomized path when it is launched..."

from http://krypted.com/mac-security/app-translocation-services-os-x-10-12/

Funny that the strings loaded for the text file are changed, though.

On Sep 26, 2018, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Just found the following very perplexing directories listed by Pd’s “About Pd” window. I re-downloaded 0.48-2 and saw a similar listing. The paths are accurate and can be navigated in the terminal. This appears to be the result of macOS AppTranslocation, and probably a headache to deal with, but I can’t imagine that this display is useful to users in its current state:

Pd 0.49.0

A real-time graphical programming environment for live interactive
computer music, Pd works on Linux, Apple macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Pd is copyrighted, but is free for you to use for any reasonable purpose.
See the file:
    /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/LICENSE.txt

Reference documentation for Pd lives in:
   /private/var/folders/d7/m7ff94zn5tb7x7m7f_t4mkg40000gn/T/AppTranslocation/5F6B8661-189B-4614-B1FA-B54185D21D65/d/Pd-0.49-0.app/Contents/Resources/doc/1.manual/index.htm
or online:
   http://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/

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