Autoupdating & moved apps

[Kinniken]

I keep my apps in "catergory" folders inside the "applications" folder; for example, mail is located in applications/Internet.
When I updated to 10.1.2, the updater created folders named "mail"and "image capture" inside my application folder; in them I found a "content" folder, and plenty of strange files inside...
SO, I suppose the updater wanted to update things inside the "Mail" and "Image Capture" package... Which brings two points: does that mean I am obliged to put all my apps at the root of my Applications folder? I have like 200, and God knows the Finder does not like big folders... What should I do to get them updated now? I havnt used Mail or Image Capture since I upgraded, but now I need mail and I fear that using the unpatched version could cause problems =/

TIA,

Kinniken

 

[edX]

well, it's probably a good idea to keep apple stuff where apple puts it as you have discovered. i think most of your third party apps should be fine anywhere. i have them spread out over three hd's and the installers (for those that have installers) seem to find them. most apps these days are drag and drop, so as long as you can find it, you're safe.

i know didn't tell you what to do with using mail but that is for fear i would be wrong. i know what i would do, but i tend to be pretty cautiosly brave with stuff like that.

 

[Kinniken]

The reckless would be to use Synk to syncronise both folders... if any files were supposed to get deleted by the updater, I'm screwed.
An other way would be to get someone to send them to me =)
I need:
-Mail
-Image Capture
-Print Center

TIA,

Kinniken

 

[Pavao]

I also have all my Apps categorized inside the Applications folder and that has already happened to me twice, the latest time being with the update to 10.1.2. What I did was to copy all the new files into the apps' packages. It has worked very well both times I did it. The apps got upgraded and I have never had a problem with them.

For example, to upgrade Mail.app, I did the following on the Terminal:

cd /Applications
cp -fR Mail.app Internet/Mail.app


"cp" will add the new files to the application package.

Because applications built for OSX (I mean Cocoa apps) don't usually use the resource fork on files, there's no problem on using the unix "cp" command.

Also, there is no problem whatsoever on using the application that has not yet been upgraded. It's just there like it has always been, so just use it.

Needless to say... Try this only after doing backup copies of the Apps you are going to tincker with. You should also feel confortable with the Terminal and with unix shells before attempting anything like this.

If you don't want to do this then just leave the apps where they were put by Apple. I know this is stupid and I hate this "bug", but it will save you the trouble.