Regarding the "Documents" & "Applications" folders:
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:31:29 +0200 >From: Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I wouldn't necessarily trash them, because some installers and even some >apps do require them: >Some installers will attempt to install inside the Applications folder. >Some apps, like iTunes, recent versions of AppleWorks and others require the >documents folder (AppleWorks actually stores some of it's preferences in >it.) I would call any Installer "broken" if it could not gracefully handle the non-existance of either of these folders. And most Installers will let you specify where they should place the main application folder, overriding any factory defaults. To date I have not experienced any difficulty due to the fact that I have removed the default Documents folder from my Startup Disk. (I do have a documents folder on a second partition, but that's got nothing to do with anything set up with the system software.) I do still have an Applications folder on my Startup Disk, but that is (a) because I got tired of deleting it when system updates re-created the thing and (b) my dedicated applications partition was starting to get full, so moving a select group of apps onto my System partition started to make a lot of sense and (c) it's got a nifty custom icon. Up to and including System 9 there was really nothing mandatory about the way folders were set up. You could rename your System Folder to anything. You could locate it anywhere on the Startup Disk. There were a few items in the System folder that you should not rename or move outside the System Folder, but there are magic bits set in the File System directories that lock the name and location. I.e., with the stuff that's important, the OS makes it difficult for you to shoot yourself in the foot. Of course, that doesn't mean that there aren't broken installers out there. But an Installer that is so braindead as to kvetch or croak over a missing Documents folder... such a lame animal won't notice when you create a brand new folder with the given name and try again. -- As to OS X: given that it's Unix under the hood, and Unix tends to be a bit hard-wired in re: subdirectories, there may be some new limitations to your freedoms. Actually, Unix can also be pretty configurable... if you're determined;-) Apple is pretty good about making it easy for you to change things that can be changed harmlessly and making it difficult to change things that shouldn't be changed unless you really know what you're doing. If the OS lets you drag a folder to the trash, you're probably OK. If it doesn't, than don't. CHeers, --------------- <http://www.bek.no/~pcastine/Litter/> --------------- Peter Castine | From the Litter Power Thesaurus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Noise: lp.frrr~, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | lp.grrr~, | lp.pfff~, | lp.phhh~, | lp.ppp~, | lp.shhh, | lp.shhh~, | lp.sss~, | lp.tata, | lp.titi, | lp.zzz~ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
