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OS X 10.4 install may miss non-standard app locations
My method of dealing with applications in Mac OS X has enabled me to organize my apps and still have Apple apps update correctly. It worked great for the last two major upgrades to Mac OS X (Panther and Tiger). All without overly-clever symbolic link hoop-jumping! :) Basically, just accept the fact that Apple apps live in /Applications and /Utilites and go from there...
When I upgrade/update my system, all Apple apps are located in the appropriate place (because I do not categorize them - they live in Applications or Utilities), so all is good. When accessing my apps from the dock or finder, I use zApps instead of /Applications since it gives me access to all my programs in a categorized way. The only minor annoyance (that is really not that big of a deal) is that I have to distinguish between Apple apps and third party apps. ("Safari - oh that's not in 'Internet' it's in 'Apple' cuz its an Apple app...") I hope this helps! :) By the way, I call it zApps so that it sorts to the bottom of the /Application folder...
OS X 10.4 install may miss non-standard app locations
:) I use "1app", so it is the firs folder in "as Columns" view, which is my favorite when navigating. I do not want to "hide" this folder...
OS X 10.4 install may miss non-standard app locations
I've been planning to do the same thing, but I'll probably put my directory at the top level: /Apps. Is there some reason not to? |
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