Moving Applications out of the Applications folder
Hi there,
I read somewhere (or dreamt) that you could now move applications outside of the Applications folder and it would not affect them or their being updated using the Software Updater. Is this true?
Personally, I would just like to group my Applications within the Applications folder into sub-folders for different types, such as Chat, Video, Audio, Games, Network etc. My Applications folder has become rather unruly and difficult to navigate and although I have Spotlight for quick-launching apps, it would also be nice to scan the apps I do have, removing any I don't use any more. So a cleaner Applications folder would be much nicer for me.
Does anyone have any opinions on this? Should I be able to do this (with caution) or is it a bad idea?
Thanks.
I read somewhere (or dreamt) that you could now move applications outside of the Applications folder and it would not affect them or their being updated using the Software Updater. Is this true?
Personally, I would just like to group my Applications within the Applications folder into sub-folders for different types, such as Chat, Video, Audio, Games, Network etc. My Applications folder has become rather unruly and difficult to navigate and although I have Spotlight for quick-launching apps, it would also be nice to scan the apps I do have, removing any I don't use any more. So a cleaner Applications folder would be much nicer for me.
Does anyone have any opinions on this? Should I be able to do this (with caution) or is it a bad idea?
Thanks.
Comments
10.5.1 did indeed add support for moved Applications, but obviously only Apple knows what that really means and how effective it is; whether it's installer.app that has changed or what.
In OS 9 I used to move applications around, but what's the point anymore? With the dock and spotlight, finding and launching applications is an easy as ever. I haven't looked in my applications folder for months.
That is true, however when I do look inside my Applications folder, it's much nicer seeing and understanding what's going on in there. If it's well organised, you can easily point out the apps you haven't used and could possibly delete, along with the ones you'd forgotten about.
But the main reason is, rather embarrassingly, because I can then make stacks of all the subfolders without having to create aliases for all my applications in groups... I can't put up with stacks showing piled-up aliases.