Good program, stupid updaters - Edwin-schemer

Have you tried symlinking the app from where you keep it to tha /Applications directory?

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Monday, April 25 2005 @ 05:41 PM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - Tyaris Major

Why do you even need to move it them around? There's a reason it's put into /Applications. Not just because of updates, but because of things like Services, LaunchServices and SecurityAgent. And if you've been clever enough to move things around, you should be clever enough to move them back when they need updating. How is Apple supposed to know if/how you've customised your computer? Have you also moved around your /System folder as well?

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Monday, April 25 2005 @ 07:14 PM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - michel binkhorst

Well I like to create subdirs for my graphics apps, sound apps, video apps, text apps, misc apps, database apps, developer apps, etc. etc.
Not everything fits in the dock or has a place in dragthing..

Besides..I saved my prefs right? Should be pretty easy to find an executable on my harddrive even if the location is not stored in the prefs file..

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Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 04:01 AM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - MI Mac Maven

Here's how to organize your appolications within subfolders and not confust the system updater. The logical way to do this type of organization is to leave you applications where they reside, make aliases to them and place the aliases in the subfolders wherever you want them. This is a tried and true method that has been around for 40 years. You don't move the applications themselves; you point to them.

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Monday, April 24 2006 @ 01:35 PM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - Strider72

We should be able to organize things _within_ the Applications folder. For example, I put all my Internet apps in a folder (as a web developer I have a lot of browsers on my computer -- they go in /Applications/Internet/browsers/) oops, except I can't move Safari. I have an accessories folder for all the little piddlydunk apps -- but wait... I have to leave Calculator where it is. (???)

Hell I'm afraid to move "Chess" into the Games folder! This is ridiculous.

Every other Mac developer can somhow make updaters that can locate programs that have been reorganized, but somehow the people who _make the operating system_ can't figure out a way? Absurd. Complete utter and total nonsense.

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Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 07:03 AM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - RebelKet

So, why don't you go for another OS?

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Tuesday, July 26 2005 @ 12:03 AM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - Gorbag

This is a brain-dead attitude. We can all love Apple AND have constructive criticism here. That some folks would like to reorganize their Apps folder, have a per-user Apps folder or whatever is a perfectly reasonable request.

To the OP: did you try making a suggestion on the Apple page? I know they categorize suggestions and if they get enough of them on a particular topic, someone looks carefully at them. I doubt Apple folks are reading comments on VersionTracker.

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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 03:58 PM PST

Good program, stupid updaters - Weston Mason

Do you realize how SLOW software update would be if it had to search you ENTIRE system for a moved/missing application or utility? I for one do not have the time to wait. Apple are making the right choice here. By all means create sub folders for your other apps. Apple doesn't update those anyway. The reason that _other_ developers are able to update their products _no matter where they are_ is because they are only concerned with one or two products - NOT the entire OS!

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Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 10:08 AM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - bgrubb

Given the speed that Spotlight can find things the claim that is will take a 'long' time to find something if they move it is deonstrately false. It is simply a cast of lazy programming that the updates are so dumb.

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Sunday, September 25 2005 @ 08:03 AM PDT

Good program, stupid updaters - Gordon Byrnes

At this time, there isn't really any system in place in OS X for knowing the location of executables beyond just assuming them to be in a certain place. The third-party installers that update things generally do so either by scanning the entire disk (a horrible idea, given the size of modern harddrives) or by asking the user to locate the application.

Most other OSes get around this by storing executables in a uniform directory, and having the user interact with applications only through aliases. Packages in OS X make it practical for the user to directly access the applications directory, which can result in issues like this.

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Monday, July 25 2005 @ 02:55 PM PDT

maybe the owner's fault - nckitkat1

don't know for sure, but it could be that it is better to leave them alone because they are built on Unix. however, if you want them someplace else, why not just put an alias in the place where you would rather access it? that way it works but is still customized.

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Thursday, January 12 2006 @ 09:26 AM PST