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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: eagle on Apr 13, '09 08:21:05AM

Can you not just create a symbolic link at /Applications, to /path/to/apps?

# ln -s /Applications /path/to/apps



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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: hypert on Apr 14, '09 09:45:36AM

That's the method I use. Once in a while a dumb installer/updated will remove the sym-link and create another /Applications folder. I then have to move the installed/updated app to my real Apps folder, and recreate the sym-link. Sigh. Still, it's worth it!



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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 14, '09 02:19:24PM

Other way around. It's like making a copy, only your copy is a reference.

ln -s /path/to/apps /Applications

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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: revmatt on Apr 15, '09 07:41:39AM

The problem I had with this approach is that an update from Apple (don't remember if it was the 10.5.3 or 10.5.4) blew away the alias and overwrote it with a new applications folder in order to install updates to some of the apps in Utilities.

In response to the comments about just throwing in a bigger drive, I'm on a laptop with a 60G drive and I partition the drive in a way that makes my backups easy to do, but the catch is it makes my system partition smaller than I'd really like. If you've never replaced the hard drive in an iBook, look up the instructions online. It is decidedly non-trivial.



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