Trying to install an application soley for a user in OS X Lion. Although I don't have an "Applications" folder in my user folder. Did they take this option out of Lion or am I missing something here?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
You should, otherwise you don't have any Apps.
Open Finder, and try: ⇧⌘G and enter /Applications
I do have the applications folder in my root but not in /Users/(username)/
That's not a standard Folder. You can create it (was it there before you upgraded to Lion?)
If you want one, make your own. A private user Applications folder has never been supplied by the system installation.
Yes in Snow Leopard I believe it was created with the system
arynhard wrote:
Yes in Snow Leopard I believe it was created with the system
Nope. Not system created. Perhaps it was created when you installed a 3rd party app
Even in Snow Leopard? Weird because I could have sworn I had two applications folders in 10.6. The reason I am doing this is to create the application from using any root folders. From what I understand, if you install to the user then the app uses the application support folders of the user, rather than root. Just so I can keep my standard installation clean, and so if I delete the user then all that I did with those apps is deleted as well. Am I wrong? Thanks.
Probably so. Thanks.
See this 2010 Snow Leopard thread for some earlier discussion of this:
Yes, it is Tony. ~/Applications for each user is a standard folder. It's been there since 10.0 and it's in there on 10.6.8 for all of my users on all of my Macs in 10.6.8 and prior.
It's gone in 10.7 and 10.8 and this presents an irritating problem for me.
Well, I looked around and looked in my other user folders on several 10.6.8 boxes and the Applications folder is there in many users, but not for all, so this leads me to think that this is a supported folder, but an optional one.
Still looking in to it to see what the complete scoop is.
Edit:
AHA! Many times when we run an installer, the Apple approved installer allows you to install an application for just one user, or for all users on the system. That's how this gets created.
The user specific Applications folder is a standard and supported folder, but an optiopnal one, even though Apple's docs neglect mentioning it.
If you manually create a folder called "Applications" within your home folder, you can install applications for that user only. Mac OS X even gives the folder the little "A" logo typically assocaited with your system-level applications folder!
OSX Lion User Application folder missing.
