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you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts?
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: austinkalani Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 12:01 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Why does Apple continue to insist that programs must be at the root level of the Applications folder to be recognized? I'm sure I'm not the only one with hundreds of programs in several different genres; it just doesn't make sense to have everything from Final Cut Pro to The Sims in the same place. Everytime Apple releases an update I have to move everything out of my nested folders back to the root level and then back to the nested folder. I'm not technical in the sense that I know programming but is this such a difficult thing to overcome? Why can't I put an application wherever I want to on the hard drive?
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you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts? - Dester Wallaboo
Why would you move them out of the Applications folder to begin with?... why not make an alias in a different location?Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 02:01 PM PDT
why bother? - sjk
I agree. I've long since abandoned the idea of organizing the /Applications hierarchy, especially knowing it increases the risk of update installers not working properly and there's no user data stored there anyway.I've created a folder with subfolders of aliases to applications and keep that organized the way you like. And I can can add other files there, too, like notes about the contents. I'd rather put the time into organizing that customizable application "metafolder" hierarchy than /Applications itself.
Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 05:49 PM PDT
why bother? - phenotype
Totally agree. So stupid. I gave up organizing it years ago...Tuesday, October 25 2005 @ 04:43 PM PDT
you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts? - deejemon
Apple put it where it belongs when you installed the product. Not unreasonable that they expect it to still be there, when there's no good reason to move it. Did you move the "System" or "Library" folders? There's probably a reason you didn't.Gurnenthar be with you if you ever get the notion to move any software around on a PC....
Monday, December 19 2005 @ 05:10 PM PST
you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts? - fdanna
My my, how short the memory of a mac user must be. It was with the release of OS X that we lost the ability to organize applications however we wish. This was a step BACKWARD for the end user. It was always a windows-notion that you could never touch a program and put it where you wanted... and we used to deride widnows users for it... now Apple has done the same thing and suddenly it's perfectly logical. That's a load of crap. And if they don't want users moving them, they should be moveable at all.... there's nothing intuitive about leaving your applications folder unorganized.Friday, March 31 2006 @ 12:59 PM PST
you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts? - deejemon
The folder's called "Applications", not "Application organizing top-level".You wanna blame someone, blame whoever came up with UNIX.
Fine, move them around if you must, but if you do, remember that a) it's against Apple's recommendation, b) it may screw up LaunchServices' ability to find your apps, and c) it's encumbent on you to remember to move them back before you update them, because, let's face it, you know good and well what happens when they're not where they're supposed to be.
(Geez, put a folder of aliases in your Dock and get over it.)
Tuesday, July 18 2006 @ 09:43 AM PDT
you know what drives me ^&$&#* nuts? - ubernaut
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Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 12:14 PM PDT