Re: Very, very HOT!

Peter Ceresole wrote:
High Priest <HP@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Turns out that it is one of those apps that insists on living where the
author says, and will not run if i put it where i want. This is not the
way computing should work.

Why does it matter where it is?

I used to be a Nazi about where things lived when I had slow Macs with
small hard disks, but now I just create aliases and the apps effectively
live wherever I want them, with no messing about.

I suppose I could put them in the Dock, but I try to limit my Dock
population so I can find things easily, and I work with aliases in
named, differentiated desktop folders. So I have Activity Monitor's
alias in 'Tools'. With a nice spanner icon, although that's just for
fun.

Which is more or less what I do, and it works well for me.

However, it is clunky to arrange (make alias, make folder, move and so on). I've got over 200 apps in my 'proper' Applications folder - I'm not at all sure how people with a healthy collection of programmes but no knowledge of this alias shenanigans manage.

Rob
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