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Applications and
Authored by: tomem on Sep 21, '02 12:20:19PM

Kind of an anal group, aren't we? I don't see much point in aliasing everything, except for Dock or Favorites purposes. Anyone using your machine should be in their own account and will only have admin priviledges if you've granted them.

My solution was just to commandeer the "Applications (OS9)" folder for my own use, renaming it as I desired (Appls), and organizing it as I see fit. I keep a "Utils" folder in there for my OS9 and non-Apple OSX utilities.

I would prefer that Apple had followed its earlier practice of putting their stuff in an "Apple Extras" folder, but since they did not, it is far easier to keep hands off "Applications" and let them manage that area, than to try to remember what is mine and what is theirs. Likewise for the System and system level Library. We just have to learn that the only place that "anything goes" is in the home directories, and even there one must be careful about Library files.



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