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Organizing the Mac OS X Applications directory

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Mar 15, 202612940 views
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Problem

By default, whenever an application is installed in OS X, it gets dropped into the /Applications directory. At the moment I have 85 items in /Applications, and if I want to open up a particular application from the /Application directory I have to do a rough guess as to where it is located in the F…

Error Output

/Applications
   Address Book.app
   ..
   /Adobe Photoshop CS3
   ..
   .. (30 other entries)
   ..
   iPhoto.app
   ..
   .. (20 other entries)
   …

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Fix for: Organizing the Mac OS X Applications directory

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You can move Applications to any folder. There is nothing magic about the Applications folder other than that it's especially easy to get to from the Finder. Feel free to add any subdirectories and put the apps in them. When I download an app I'm no…

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