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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: wgscott on Apr 13, '09 04:22:05PM
I like to organize my applications into subdirectories of /Applications, but as noted the updater will then miss them (which is really stupid, since locating software with spotlight, which Apple might have heard of, is essentially instant). Anyway, the safest thing to do is leave everything in /Applications, but then make the applications hidden, eg,

cd /Applications
sudo chflags hidden iTunes.app


Then create a subdirectory, such as /Applications/Digitial Media, and make a symbolic link, eg:

ln -s /Applications/iTunes.app /Applications/Digital Media/.

Then the icon shows up in the finder in the subdirectory but not the main directory, and will be unaffected by updates. (I would slightly prefer to make a symbolic link in the other direction, and make the symbolic link itself invisible, but that doesn't seem to work -- but it does work for Mac-style aliases, which may or may not be problematic).

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Create symbolic links for all items in a folder
Authored by: wgscott on Apr 13, '09 04:23:19PM

The spaces need to be escaped or to have quotes around them. The escapes I added disappeared.



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