OS X 10.4 install may miss non-standard app locations

May 06, '05 09:18:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Just a quick heads-up ... I had organized my pre-installed Apple applications (Safari, Mail and iChat in a folder called Communications, etc.). When I installed Tiger using "Archive and Install," it did not replace the old apps with their new versions; instead, it put the new apps in the default location (Applications) and left my old apps behind. Launching from the Dock loaded the old versions, so I had to dig around and trash all the old apps.

So, just a warning: if you muck with your Applications folder, you might want to put everything back in place before installing Tiger.

[robg adds: This comes up with every major update (and some minor ones), it seems, so I figured it was worth repeating the caution. This is one reason why I've simply stopped trying to arrange the Apple-provided applications: I let them live where they want to live. Yes, there are ways around the issue using symbolic links, but I decided it wasn't worth the hassles. Every other program I own is installed on a separate Applications partition (barring a few recalcitrant subjects who refuse to run if they're not in /Applications), but I leave the Apple stuff alone.]

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