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From: dorayme on 14 Jul 2010 18:26 In article <i1kh8j$4f0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Wes Groleau wrote: > > On 07-13-2010 23:53, David Empson wrote: > >> If you move the application anywhere else and then apply a software > >> update, the files that form part of the update are installed where the > >> application was supposed to be, not where you moved it. This leaves you > >> with a broken partial copy of the application in its "correct" location. > > > > It surprises me that after ten years of OS X, > > Apple still hasn't fixed this. > > Another view is: It's not broken. One is simply ill advised to move apps > out of the apps folder. That is not simply another *view*, it is a manufactured apologia. Having said that, it is true that it is ill advised to move apps out of the app folder -like it would have been ill advised for a Jewish person to speak their mind in public in pre WW2 Germany. Have folders inside the app folder, make aliases, anything but really speak your mi... I mean move them out to somewhere else. -- dorayme
From: John McWilliams on 14 Jul 2010 18:29 Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article <i1knlk$e8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >>> One think I don't like is that you have to keep the iWork apps inside >>> the iWork folder in the Applications folder in order to update them. >>> If you move them directly into the Applications folder, the updater >>> can't find them. >> I'm not crazy about that either, but I've moved from complete >> customization of apps and their locations in Systems 9.xx and earlier, >> to just 'letting it be' in the Apps folder. > > Yeah, so have I. > >> I feel I make good use of the Tool Bar, which I keep at the bottom of my >> screens. I have it organized by function- music apps, image apps, >> writing apps are grouped together. > > Do you mean the Dock? > Ooooooops. Yeah, da Dock. Drugs from tooth extraction not fully worn off. Too much time in PS... lotsa excuses.... J. "Um, his vocabulary, like, uh, really, ah....... sucked."
From: John McWilliams on 14 Jul 2010 18:37 dorayme wrote: > In article <i1kh8j$4f0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> Wes Groleau wrote: >>> On 07-13-2010 23:53, David Empson wrote: >>>> If you move the application anywhere else and then apply a software >>>> update, the files that form part of the update are installed where the >>>> application was supposed to be, not where you moved it. This leaves you >>>> with a broken partial copy of the application in its "correct" location. >>> It surprises me that after ten years of OS X, >>> Apple still hasnât fixed this. >> Another view is: It's not broken. One is simply ill advised to move apps >> out of the apps folder. > > That is not simply another *view*, it is a manufactured apologia. > > Having said that, it is true that it is ill advised to move apps > out of the app folder -like it would have been ill advised for a > Jewish person to speak their mind in public in pre WW2 Germany. > Have folders inside the app folder, make aliases, anything but > really speak your mi... I mean move them out to somewhere else. > Oh, crikey! That's an indirect Godwin, so I 'win', and the thread is dead. And, yeah, it's not an apologia by me; it's simply the way it is. -- John McWilliams
From: thepixelfreak on 14 Jul 2010 20:03 On 2010-07-13 17:59:46 -0700, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> said: > In article > <8b63dfcb-2454-419b-800e-df2271a3945e(a)x20g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, > Tony <henree21(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am going to clean my Hd. IS there a way to view all my installed >> Applications and view their sizes? > > One of the best utilities for visually seeing where you disk space is > being used is a treemap program. Disk Inventory X is one such program > for Mac OS X: > > <http://www.derlien.com/> Disk Inventory X requires Rosetta. If you don't have Rosetta installed http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net is an Intel only binary that is fairly similar to Disk Inventory X. > > And if you don't mind paying a little for it, DaisyDisk is probably the > coolest version of such a utility I've ever had the pleasure of using: > > <http://www.daisydiskapp.com/> -- thepixelfreak
From: Leonard Blaisdell on 14 Jul 2010 23:30
In article <i1lbkl$i73$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > However, I still have my apps in logical groups. I just have to > use "ln -s" instead of "mv" :-) Are there any differences between a symlink and an Apple alias? I have a probably incorrect notion that an alias is better on OSX. leo |