Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
- Subject: Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 05:57:40 -0700
nigh on 2001.06.13 3:23 PM, Harald E Brandt at email@hidden wrote:
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+--> Paul Berkowitz wrote 01-06-12:
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> There's usually be a good reason for something like that. The reason here, I
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> think, is that if/when you move to OS X, especially if it's on the same disk
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> partition as OS 9.1 you'll probably totally screw up your whole system by
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> having done that.
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+- .... and others wrote similar scary stuff...
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Your are scaring the hell out of me!
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What shall I do with the zillions of apps I already have, which are not even
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on the same partition as the OS 9.1 I have!? They are all on a partition I
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have called "Apps". And what about all aliases, scripts and much else!? When I
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move to OS X, will I have to repartition my disk and move all my zillions of
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applications and cram them down into the single folder "Applications (Mac OS
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9)", then tediously separating out current carbonized apps into a separate
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Applications folder!!!? Help!!!
No. You can still put applications anywhere you want with Mac OS X. There's
no serious issue here. If you have an old "Applications" folder, the Mac OS
X installer will rename it to "Applications (Mac OS 9)" and put all the X
apps into "Applications". It's convenient to keep them separate, but nothing
serious will go wrong if you chose to put them in the same folder.
The only thing special about the X Applications folder is that when the
system scans for new applications (so it can register them and the icons for
their documents), it only looks in the Applications folder. However,
installers should register applications they install, and whenever you open
an application it will get registered if necessary. So the worst thing that
could happen is if you copy an application on to your computer, and don't
put it in the Applications folder, you might have old icons, and opening
existing documents might open an older version of the application until you
open the new one once. (Hope I didn't make that sound too confusing...it's
really not a big deal.)
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Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.