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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)


  • Subject: Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
  • From: Jeff Johnson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:36:38 -0600

On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Jeff Johnson
<email@hidden> wrote:
That's an odd request, because doesn't it make more sense to install to
/Applications if the app is running from /Volumes/MyDMG rather than from
~/Downloads? :-) Indeed, one of the reasons to switch from dmg to zip
distribution is that the app disappears when the dmg is unmounted.

Not if you use an internet-enabled DMG. And I don't want my applications trying to install themselves in /Applications; I have apps installed in ~/Applications or other places on my network home folder at work.

--Kyle Sluder

Well, if the app has already been automatically copied from the internet-enabled dmg, then it won't be running from the mounted dmg volume, so just as with zip distribution, there's not much reason to offer to re-install it elsewhere.


On the other hand, it was a terrible decision by Apple from a security perspective to have files downloaded from the internet automatically open, and everyone really ought to turn off this default setting.

-Jeff

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 >Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: Ben Lachman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: Jeff Johnson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>)

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