I have been at war since Tiger with Apple's propensity to install new apps and updates in /Applications on the Mackintosh HD (3rd party apps are less a problem but require some attention when installing). On the face of it, there is no reason for the casual user not to install Apple apps in /Applications; on the other hand, experienced users, especially those of us who are spreading their applications (or at least supporting DBs, Plug-ins, etc.) across multiple HDs on a MacPro, face a certain amount of organization and documentation to ween apps from the /Applications folder (and Contents subfolders). I have been generally successful in using symlinks to relieve my primary HD of apps I want to reside on secondary HDs. One app, (now) Oracle's Virtual Box, however, has been a thorn in my side. When VB does not find its VM where it expects it (on Mackintosh HD), updates fail. For mysterious reasons, if I retain my config (the actual VM on a secondary drive) and back off three or four updates and reinstall, the most current update (which initially failed) installs without a problem. I am perplexed by this ridiculous fix, but it works, and I keep it in mind when confronted with updates that do not conform to the Apple /Applications tyrany.
On a positive note, I have used many OSs (Unix and otherwise) and OS X 4.7 Lion kicks ass!
oɯᴉ⊥ Everything else is just a game! On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 18:02, René J.V. Bertin <email@hidden> wrote:
What really annoys me though is how the app insists on moving itself
back into /Applications - that's hard-coded (and very
un-Apple-like)...
On the contrary; try splitting /Applications up by function and then watch Apple's own updates screw up (I ended up with multiple broken copies of Preview that way once). The Apple way is clearly to throw everything into /Applications. :(
I've been symlinking/aliasing stuff into a shadow tree under /Applications and sticking that tree in the Dock. Maybe there's a way to user-configure Lion's Launchpad for folders (my guess is dragging icons on top of each other a la iPhone/iPad) that will survive updates, but in general I just assume Apple "knows what's best for me" and forces it on me and I have to go around it to get a sensible organization.
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