Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models

On 2024-03-07 14:25, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2024-03-06 20:17, Alan wrote:

On 2024-03-06 17:04, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-03-06, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-06 14:59, Your Name wrote:

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More internal drive space can also be needed if you run lots of apps
since some do not like to be stored / run outside of the standard
system Applications folder.

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Huh?
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Give an example of one such application.

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I'd be willing to bet Adobe's Creative Cloud apps don't like being
anywhere but their designated place in /Applications.
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How much?
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To be fair, I just moved Adobe Illustrator 2023 (and it's entire folder to be sure) from Applications to my Desktop folder...
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...and it seems to work fine.
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:-)

 And where does the license credential reside?

I don't know... ...but moving the application made no difference to how it ran.

 Can you now connect that external drive to a different Mac and run it with the license credentials in effect?

Almost certainly not.
Are you as ignorant about how macOS has worked for the last 20+ years as you are about proportion?
:-)