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sukanas

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 15, 2007
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in my Users/Turtle(mine)/Applications folder, its blank
but in my

/Applications i have all my stuff in there

i thought both folders were supposed to be the same?
or do i just have it wrong?

thanks
 
the one in your users folder if for apps that are installed only for that account, the one in the drive is for access for all users.
 
Thanks for bringing this up. I ran across this same issue the other night, and it's good to know there's not something freaky happening with my system!
 
Don't worry - the "Applications" folder is provided only for convenience. There's nothing special about it. You can have all your applications installed in a single directory in /Users/<yourlogin> or /Users/Shared or anywhere else. Applications will work well regardless of where you have copied them into (if you scroll through /Applications, you'll see that some applications actually create a directory within /Applications - even the default installation of Mac OS X creates a "Utilities" directory within /Applications).

Mac OS X knows an application when it sees one (and will show the application icon) - doesn't matter where on the system it's located (could even be an external drive). As long as you provide the required access to the directories that contain applications (and to the applications too) to other users, they will be able to use them.
 
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