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Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
I remember how in OS 9 and under, we moved around Applications with impunity. I can't understand why we'd repeatedly confront this issue now in OS X, 5 or more years later. Apple updaters will break. Other applications' updaters will break. This hint is not so much a hint as a user-error fix.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
Exactly. There's no reason at all to move applications around and put them in folders. The reason I say this is if you have to go into your applications folder to launch an application in the first place, you aren't working as efficiently as you can.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
Well here's a couple of self-important prescriptions for telling people how to work.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
And that was a self-important bit of judging?
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
And yet we have this handy "go->applications' shortcut in the Finder, with the easy-to-remember apple-shift-A shortcut. Got that application you use once every quarter, can't remember its name, don't want it cluttering up your dock? Apple-shift-a and dig around. Except Applications is a mess. So we make folders in it.
Yeah, I know, this is the age of tagging and smart search and we're not supposed to ever care about the file structure on our disk any more. Sometimes folders work for a memorable scheme. Some stuff works in a folder off of Applications, some doesn't. I've gotten used to Adobe's apps not being able to launch their own help since CS2, for instance, since I keep them and their annoying standalone help application in a 'gfx' directory of my applications along with my other graphics tools...
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
It's a lot easier and more elegant to use a combination of Quicksilver and HimmelBar.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
Actually, I mostly launch stuff with QS and the Dock. Popping open a reasonably-organized Applications folder is for those now and then apps that don't get permanent space in either the Dock or in my brain...
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
That's fine, but you still have to dig through folders. I hate digging through folders. I rarely open the Applications folder, being that it is such a mess, if I don't have to. I don't even open my hard drive very often.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
"Moving applications in OS X is not a good idea in general."
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
Only a VERY few badly programmed apps and updaters have problems with putting apps wherever you desire. Like all the Apple stuff? If you look into it, it's quite a list, and not only Apple apps. If anything, the programmers are following Apple's guidelines. Do you know the definition of asinine? I agree it shouldn't be that way, but it is. So the advise stands on its own merits. ---
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
What a maroon. Oh I forgot... that's not actually a word, as used in the Bugs Bunny sense. So either you are speaking of a color, or you are stranded somewhere... ---
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
I think it's safe to say that, notwithstanding the lack of global view settings, OSX encourages (coerces?) the user to work from a single window as much as possible. In setting up a dedicated, exceedingly complicated audio box, with elaborate installs that place files all over the place, I have good reasons for separating my audio apps from the rest of the garbage I rarely use, at least in the short term (even if I do have to manually return items to their default locations for updates). For me, all non-audio apps are merely "helper apps." When I click on the Finder icon in the dock I get a new window in column view, opened to my directory of audio apps, which is all I want to see, thank you. I admit that this is unrepentant OS 9 behavior ; but, similarly, I know EXACTLY what is and where is every item in the folder (as well as the items I have moved). I guess I do it just to wrap my head around what the hell I'm doing - the visual organization helps to do this, it seems.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
I think it's safe to say that, notwithstanding the lack of global view settings, OSX encourages (coerces?) the user to work from a single window as much as possible. How so? I often have many windows open. And the fact that you can bring windows from disparate applications, including the Finder, to the front simultaneously, makes things even easier. You can have your Word document right next to your Photoshop document if you want. I commonly have 8 applications open, and have to work between them. You are making OS X sound like its using Windows' parent/child paradigm, which it is not. Also, how do you figure there is no global view setting? When I open a new Finder window, it's just as I have set it. Windows will retain their view setting if you change it... I have certain windows open in icon view, with previews, and maximum icon size, wile others are in list view, sorted by date modified. My default is list view sorted by name. And as far as using OS X for audio.... I haven't found any problem having Cubase SX, Spark XL, Entourage, and Safari (and probably a few more) open at the same time.... Why on Earth would you need to limit the applications installed on your Mac? This is not a PC where you have to remove crap from the hard drive to get it to run well. ---
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
Apple designed the OSX Finder quite deliberately to incorporate the sidebar and customizable toolbar in order to make navigation within a single finder window as easy as possible. (The reason for this, according to some insider accounts, was that was how Steve Jobs wanted it. Very little, if any, end-user testing was involved). This has absolutely nothing to do with the windows of open applications or with running apps simultaneously. (?) As for the oft-lamented lack of global view settings, this has been addressed in a multitude of Mac GUI discussions on the web, notably those at Macintouch, with much speculation as to wether it is due to bugs or by poor design.
Work around an Adobe 8 Reader self-healing annoyance
I'm not disagreeing with you, and I personally think the Finder is poorly designed, and needed a lot more end user testing. It's slow and buggy as well. |
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