Can't move apps?

Date	2013-01-24 09:01 -0800
From	Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net>
Organization	Magicon Inc.
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Can't move apps?
Message-ID	<Ueydnch3ToFO9ZzMnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink)

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Recently my Applications folder has been getting too cluttered, and I 
decided to group the apps into subfolders.

However, this had at least two (2) unpleasant consequences:

1) I moved Address Book into a subfolder in Utilities (in Applications). 
  I then found that, although Address Book itself still worked, 
previously-written Address Book AppleScripts (include the Apple-written 
Import Addresses) would not now compile.  Moving Address Book back into 
Applications fixed the problem.

2) I moved the plethora of apps constituting Adobe CS3 into an Adobe 
subfolder.  When I fired up Bridge, it complained that it had been 
moved, and offered to make repairs.  Then it crashed (or rather, 
unexpectedly quit).  Again, moving everything back cured the problem.

This is on a G4 running 10.4.11; I haven't yet tried it on my MacBook 
with CS4 running Snow Leopard.

OK, so maybe CS is a port of a PC version that hard-code paths.  But 
Address Book is Apple.  I thought apps weren't supposed to care where 
they were.  Or did that feature go away with OS 9?

Paul Magnussen

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Can't move apps? Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2013-01-24 09:01 -0800
  Re: Can't move apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-24 12:17 -0500
    Re: Can't move apps? Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2013-01-24 09:35 -0800
  Re: Can't move apps? "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2013-01-24 14:48 -0600
    Re: Can't move apps? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-24 22:19 +0000
    Re: Can't move apps? Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2013-01-24 14:20 -0800
    Re: Can't move apps? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-01-24 16:50 -0700
      Re: Can't move apps? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-01-25 18:30 +0000
        Re: Can't move apps? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-27 07:45 +0000
          Re: Can't move apps? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2013-01-27 17:59 +0000
            Re: Can't move apps? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-27 23:26 +0000
              Re: Can't move apps? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-01-27 17:28 -0700
                Re: Can't move apps? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-01-28 05:55 +0000
                Re: Can't move apps? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-01-28 15:01 -0700
              Re: Can't move apps? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2013-01-28 23:07 +0000
                Re: Can't move apps? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-01-28 15:45 -0800
  Re: Can't move apps? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-01-25 20:12 -0500
    Re: Can't move apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 00:40 -0500
      Re: Can't move apps? Richard Wakeford <rwakefordfortynine@gmail.com> - 2013-01-26 09:40 +0100
        Re: Can't move apps? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-01-26 11:47 -0500
      Re: Can't move apps? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-01-26 12:59 -0500
        Re: Can't move apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 14:15 -0500
          Re: Can't move apps? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-01-27 09:37 -0500
        Re: Can't move apps? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-01-26 19:24 +0000

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