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Authored by: skab on Jan 06, '02 08:18:34PM

I put all those Apple apps to a dedicated "Apple" folder, since I rarely use any of them, but don't want to scrap them altogether. I want a clean dir structure, so I put all apps into theme-folders like Graphics, Audio, Web etc., then app folders like "iTunes 2.0.3" (with version numbers, so I know immediately what version I got on my drive), then the app itself (without version numbers, since that looks ugly in the Dock).

But since I'm a clever guy, I put all Apple apps back to the original, App folder level before I start an updater ;-)

BTW, I also tried out Xounds, and it if really is the culprit (please confirm! If it is, they'll get an ugly mail from me!), it didn't do any harm to *my* System Prefs app - since it wasn't where Apple put it ;-)) There you are, this way I prevented the Xounds "update", too...

But I 100% agree, this customizing-to-death is totally pointless, like this stupid swap-partition-thing. Leave the system as far as possible as it was when it was installed (I more or less only change the apps folder levels), and you won't get any problems. From all Unix-like systems I ever tried or heard of this is the by far best configured one, out of the box. You just put a CD in the drive, click on some buttons and after a while you got a great desktop OS, a great small scale web server including PHP4, whatever. Just great. So leave it as it is, and let Apple do the updating...



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