>When you start up an application in Windows, the operating system needs
>to know where to find the various components. If you happen to locate
>some components in other than the default locations,
Studying many years in the school of hard knocks I have found that
locating any components in other than the default locations is asking for
trouble. All too often some idiot program will hard code the path,
causing the user great pain.
Before OS X, Mac users would laugh about this Windows-only problem. Now
in the land of Unix the best advice for OS X users is the same...
Never move any application-related files from default locations.
Never rename any application-related directories from default names.
In Mac OS X, as in Classic, any self-contained application runs
perfectly well from the desktop. Not so with those that require
additional files in the root libraries. Still it's a good idea to put
apps and other things where the system expects to find them, to be sure
that they work all the time, instead of most of the time.
Betty
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