Applications Folder In Home Folder?

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Applications Folder In Home Folder?

On both of the Macs I use, my iMac and MBP, there is an applications folder with in my home folder. It is completely empty and has a size of Zero KB. It has the same Applications folder icon you see with the one located in "Macintosh HD". Is this a normal thing every user experiences or is normal? I noticed this in 10.6.5, so I don't think it was updating to 10.6.6 that put it there.

iMac Early 2008 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Mid 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.6), MacBook Pro Mid 2010 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Jan 8, 2011 11:39 AM

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captfred

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Jan 8, 2011 11:41 AM in response to 10kylelaker

This is normal, that's where applications only available to your userid are stored. When they're in the system applications folder they're available to all users.

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10kylelaker Author

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Jan 8, 2011 11:43 AM in response to captfred

What kinds of applications normally would be put here? You said ones specific to my user, but what applications, that you know of, place themselves there?

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babowa

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Jan 8, 2011 11:47 AM in response to 10kylelaker

If you wanted to download/install an app that is only available to you, you'd drag it there instead of the System App folder.

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ajduguid

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Jan 8, 2011 11:48 AM in response to 10kylelaker

I think it's more applicable in a multi-user environment where most of the users aren't administrators of the machine. This way they could add an application without requiring authentication.

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Jan 8, 2011 11:48 AM in response to 10kylelaker

Some application installers give you the option of whether to install the application for system wide use or just for a particular user. Also it gives you the option for you to drag an Application from a disk image to your user folder so only you have access to the application.

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10kylelaker Author

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Jan 8, 2011 11:51 AM in response to Grant Greene

Okay! Thank you!

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captfred

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Jan 8, 2011 11:54 AM in response to 10kylelaker

You'll only see a difference if you have more than one user defined your machine. Programs you don't want your kids having access too would be a good example.

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