Grant, You are right about the help folder and the K3 utility -- in my own personal case, I actually made a copy of the help folder so the K3 utility access still works. In the case of the K3 utility, I like the more direct visibility to all the help pages offered by a more visible folder location for reading through everything on the first go around.
phil, K7PEH On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Grant Youngman wrote: > Just a contrary point of view. The one benefit of keeping things together > for these types of apps, is that if you ever want to uninstall it, all you > have to do is drag the whole folder to the trash. If you arbitrarily move > things around, then you are left with "leavings" on your hard drive that > won't go to the trash with the app and which you will undoubtedly forget you > have stashed away somewhere. Not that anyone would ever want to uninstall > the K3 utility :-) > > The bigger issue is that if you move the Help folder, the K3 Utility won't be > able to find it, and thus the "Help" item on the menu bar won't work. > > > > Grant/NQ5T > > > On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> I am a Mac owner as well (actually, 2 iMacs and 1 Macbook Pro laptop). You >> can put files anywhere you want. Although it is customary to place >> applications (executable bundles) in the system Applications folder, they >> can actually be put anywhere you want. Often I will put things in other >> locations just for the convenience of managing files -- often the >> Applications folder can get quite big. >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
