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You've got it all wrong
Authored by: nevyn on Feb 09, '03 02:51:02PM

In your applications folder, you want applications. Not a lotta folders. So this is how you do it, if you wanna save the readme. Copy the application to the apps folder, cmd-n for a new view, right click on the app, choose "Show package contents", double click "Contents", drag the readme files to it. Viola, you have the Readme files there, and the app is in the app folder as should be, and you never have to see 'em unless you wanna.



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The tip is about unwanted disk icons, not the Applications folder
Authored by: noworryz on Feb 10, '03 01:09:14AM

The tip is about unwanted disk icons, not the Applications folder.
Some people like to make an exact copy of a mounted disk image, which is a common distribution format. When you do so, you also copy the "mounted disk" icon, which looks weird. The tip discusses solutions to that problem.

[If you want to suggest that people stuff read-me files into packages in the Applications folder, you might submit it as a top-level tip and see if Rob likes it.]



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You've got it all wrong
Authored by: Krioni on Feb 10, '03 08:02:46PM

Another possible place to put accompanying documentation is either in a folder in your Documents folder, or in ~/Library/Documentation/

Then again, it would be nice if there was some standard way to do this. Currently, I use a crazy mix, depending on how likely I am to want to find the Docs easily, and how long it takes to drag stuff here-and-there.



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