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Another gripe
Authored by: jiclark on Jan 25, '02 11:06:22AM

I was doing this to get my Utilities folder to appear at the top of column view, but then ran into a problem that others reported as well: on running an OS update, if the folders where the installers looks to update stuff has been renamed, the update will be messed up (my Print Center was hosed by the move to 10.1.2 because of this). So change your folder names to your heart's content, but beware the new "update installer bug"! And by all means, complain to Apple at the feedback page about this, and anything else that goads you! [What happened to "Thinking differently"?]

;-}

John



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Not Apple's Problem
Authored by: 128K Mac on Jan 25, '02 10:10:38PM

It's true that Apple has had some problems with the issue of renaming folders or moving apps/folders.

But king of the hill has to be Adobe in OS9 or X.

Change "folder" to "ƒ" and you're dead.

Adaptec (Roxio) comes to mind.

They're not alone.

With all the third party vendors out there this problem isn't going to go away soon and Apple can't do a thing about it.

It never went away with classic Mac OS. :(

Remembering this is a potential problem helps. But sooner or later some updater is going to fail and you'll do your troubleshooting without remembering the potential problem.

Then there's the little matter of remembering what the *precise* name of the folder was in the first place. If you put a ">" or *aa* or whatever in front of it did you by any chance shorten the name of the folder and delete "Adobe" or perhaps the copyright symbol? It's too easy to do this without thinking with an Adobe folder or those of others in any way.

Got an Adobe app without this "problem?" Patience. You'll find one sooner or later.

Then there are the vendors who always do it right and use "smart" installers. So you get used to changing the name and one day an update comes out and both the installer and the joker who wrote it are "dumb."

Author of this "hint" has an excellent idea and is to be commended for his illustration of it as well. If the so-called engineers who write all the installers had a modest amount of common sense it would work great.

But it won't. And in my not so humble opinion you're asking for trouble if any folder's name is changed from the original one of the installer.

Rant ends.



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Not Apple's Problem
Authored by: semios on Jan 28, '02 06:58:05PM

You make an excellent point, and perhaps my next hint should consist of a script to make alias/symbolic links to every app in the /Applications and place into another user definable/changeable place. That way dumb updates won't foul up your current installation.



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