moving applications around

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moving applications around

Each time you move an application, but not ALL applications, just some of them, such as Mail, Safari, iCal...let's say Apple applications, I now have to enter my admin password. Not once, but each and every time I might want to move the application. Is there a good reason for this? Is the OS remapping the app's location? Or is it just to **** ME OFF?

Message was edited by: Michael JS Cox

MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2.26 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Sep 16, 2009 3:08 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Sep 16, 2009 3:12 PM in response to Michael JS Cox

Yes, it's a system security issue. There's no reason why you should ever move applications out of the Applications folder. So, why are you constantly moving them?

Any application that was installed by drag and drop is owned by you. All others including all OS X applications are owned by the system and require authentication to remove them from the Applications folder.

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Answer 2

Sep 16, 2009 3:25 PM in response to Michael JS Cox

If you want your own arrangement of applications, create an Applications folder (with any subfolders you want) in you home folder, then Command-Option-Drag the applications you want from the system Applications folder to the desired subfolders in your Applications folder. This will put aliases in your folder and leave Apple's application in their original locations so Software Update and OS X upgrades can find them

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Answer 3

Sep 17, 2009 3:46 PM in response to Kappy

Because I have so many apps I simply wanted to create folders WITHIN the OS Applications folder, labelled "Sound Tools," "Writing," and so on, and then drag the applications into those folders. I have, instead, put them all laboriously back into the overstuffed Apps folder...

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