[X4U] Extra Applications folder

[Rod Buchanan]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

>> On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Peter Saint James wrote:
>>
>>> 	This function serves a situation where one machine has multiple  
>>> users.  An app could be installed in the usual applications folder  
>>> so everyone can use it or installed in the applications folder for  
>>> just one user.  It keeps clueless parents from messing up the  
>>> settings on the children's advanced software.
>>
>> I have a new MacBook, and it does not/not have two application  
>> folders. I'm the only user on it at the moment (no guest account or  
>> other family member, unlike the iMac); does it create the second  
>> folder in my home directory only when there are multiple users?  Am  
>> I correct in assuming that I can manually create the second folder  
>> in my home directory if I want to move some apps there in the event  
>> I do create a guest account? I know I could try some of things on  
>> my own to see whether this would work, but everything is working  
>> fine and I hesitate to risk upsetting the apple cart playing with  
>> apps that way.
>
> My own experience has been that the system provides only one  
> Application folder, under the root. But if you add a folder called  
> "Applications" under your user folder, it will automatically get a  
> special icon from the system.

Ditto here.  The only time I have seen an ~/Applications folder is if  
I created it, and I have always had multiple accounts on my Macs.   
This is going all the way back to 10.0.

> But others are reporting that the user  Applications folder seems to  
> be arriving by itself. I haven't seen that.


I created ~/Applications as a test and it was assigned the same icon  
as /Applications (Leopard).  Never noticed that before.

--
Rod

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