Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models

On 2024-03-06 18:29, Alan wrote:

On 2024-03-06 17:25, André G. Isaak wrote:

On 2024-03-06 18:17, 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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But will creative cloud continue to notify you when updates are available? It looks at /Applications to see which software you have installed.

 Are you sure about that?
 

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Same goes for anything obtained from the App Store -- remove them from /Applications and the App Store will no longer notify you that updates are available since it won't seem them as being installed.

 Really? Show it.

I'm certain in case of App Store apps unless things have changed since Monterey (this is the main reason why I stopped storing applications on external drives). I'm not certain with respect to Adobe CC, but I strongly suspect it. It's not important enough for me to do an experiment.
Either of these claims could be easily tested if you chose. Pick some application installed via the app store. Restore an earlier version via time machine. Copy it from your /Applications folder to another drive and then delete it from /Applications. Check to see if the app store will recognize that it needs to be updated. Ditto for Adobe CC.
Applications which check for updates when launched will generally still update even if located in a nonstandard location. Applications that rely on a separate application (like App Store.app or Creative Cloud.app) not so much. They tend to determine the current version based on what's in the /Applications folder.
And I've run into other applications which experience strange behaviour when installed outside of /Applications though unfortunately I can't think of an example since I long ago stopped doing so.
André
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