And so it came to pass that Dennis W. Manasco spake:
></rant>
>
>FW{Little}IW I have hundreds of applications and tens of thousands
>of documents spread over seven hard disks and more than a hundred
>gigabytes of storage. I find Apple's implicit assertion that all
>applications should share a folder on the boot hard disk alongside a
>folder which contains all "documents" anathema. I will continue to
>put _my_ documents and _my_ applications wherever I want them on
>_my_ computer. If I come across companies whose programs get their
>knickers in a twist because their folders aren't in the "right"
>place they will get one polite email from me. If the behavior
>continues they will loose my business and hear my strenuous
>condemnation to all who will listen.
>
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>
>Sorry, but I really had to get that off my chest.
In HTML would that be <rant> and then </rant>? :)
>One of the things that has made the Mac so versatile is that you can
>install a program anywhere and then, so long as you move the whole
>folder, you can move the application anywhere you want and it *just*
>*works.* Another is that you can restore a whole system from backup
>without the hassle of original-disk installers (and the download of
>a bazillion updaters). Only the ConeHeads from NeXt would try to
>screw that up....
I agree with you. I think you and I are both going to find OS-X very
frustrating.
I run a couple of computers and when I upgrade software with a free
upgrade off the net, its easiest to do it all on one computer, and
then drag that application folder across to the others. Sometimes
there are a few system items to move too, but I can keep track of
them. However, with OS-X everything is everywhere.
I'm wondering how I am going to back up my OS-X system folder at all.
You can't drag it anywhere because there are lots on invisibles in it.
David Stonestreet
--
Rocky Road - in Oz
"Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica,
leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining
planet known as Earth."
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