[Back up 15 and punt]

Does anybody out there know if you can move the Applications Folder to a different disk? I tried this under Panther and it didn't work. Is there a way to make this work under Tiger?

[Randman]

OSX doesn't like that, sadly. You can clone your hard drive and have an Applications folder on an external but it's best to leave the Apps folder on the hard drive as is.

That said, I prefer to keep my apps organized my way but I keep Safari and iTunes alone in case of Software Updates, Everything else, I either download manually or temporarily leave in Apps until the update has been completed.

[CatOne]

Originally Posted by Back up 15 and punt

Does anybody out there know if you can move the Applications Folder to a different disk? I tried this under Panther and it didn't work. Is there a way to make this work under Tiger?

Sure, you can do it, with a Symbolic Link.

Put your Applications folder on a different disk (say, AppsDisk), and then, from terminal, do something like this:

sudo ln -s /Volumes/AppsDisk/Applications /Applications

Then, for all intents and purposes, the OS is convinced that Applications *is* on the local disk.

You have been able to do this since, oh I dunno, Rhapsody or NeXTStep. It's UNIX.

Note, you may wish to double check that I got the ln comand in the right order (and that's lowercase LN, btw), which means create a link. The -s flag makes it a symbolic link.

[Wevah]

You've got it backwards; it's

ln -s <source path> <target path>

[Back up 15 and punt]

There is also an application that is free on Version Tracker called "Symbolic Linker"