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Did Apple make 10.2.4's Installer Non-Dumb?
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Join Date: May 2000
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Is it my imagination, or is 10.2.4's Installer capable of updating applications even after you move them? Did Apple finally get its head out of its duff with respect to forced organization of its users's HDs?
It looks that way to me, but I'd like some independent verification to make sure I'm not imagining things.
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"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Gee I really hope so. I'd really like to start catagorizing my applications folder a bit.
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The new Installer has this feature, and some of the packages actually use it now.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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At what point then can we really start putting our apps in subfolders? Is it only some packages that will update correctly?
I'm dying to start categorising my applications. I'm sick of Apple even putting stuff that should be in utilities in the Application folder these days. But I don't want to start moving stuff and find everything messed up next time there is an update...
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Join Date: Aug 1999
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Wasn't that a feature of 10.2? I don't remember having to manually update the files of my moved apps since 10.1. I thought this feature was part of the LaunchServices update in 10.2.
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Originally posted by curmi:
At what point then can we really start putting our apps in subfolders? Is it only some packages that will update correctly?
I'm dying to start categorising my applications. I'm sick of Apple even putting stuff that should be in utilities in the Application folder these days. But I don't want to start moving stuff and find everything messed up next time there is an update...
Packages have to be specially written in order to take advantage of the feature. For example, the Safari update and 10.2.4 update packages take advantage of this feature, while the iMovie and iTunes packages do not. You can check whether a package supports this feature by seeing if it has a Contents/Resources/TokenDefinitions.plist file inside its bundle.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
Packages have to be specially written in order to take advantage of the feature. For example, the Safari update and 10.2.4 update packages take advantage of this feature, while the iMovie and iTunes packages do not. You can check whether a package supports this feature by seeing if it has a Contents/Resources/TokenDefinitions.plist file inside its bundle.
Thank you, very useful information.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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For example, the Safari update and 10.2.4 update packages take advantage of this feature, while the iMovie and iTunes packages do not.
Thank God for that! Otherwise, I would have had to restore iMovie 2 from backup after seeing what they did to iMovie 3.
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