ericmurphy
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I recently installed two commercial Carbon applications under OS X, Quicken 2002 and Bryce 5, and discovered that, seemingly, neither of them can be run from the Applications folder by a user without administrative privileges. This means I HAVE to run them from my home directory, which does not seem to comply with the way OS X should work as a multi-user OS. For one thing, each user seemingly would have to have an individual install of these programs.
Both Quicken and Bryce have numerous configuration files that must be read from and written to, and obviously they can't be written to by a user who does not have write privileges to the Applications folder. For security reasons, I don't like to be logged in as a user with administrative privileges unless I'm actually administering the system.
It seems that, in this case, both Intuit and Corel are breaking some of the philosophies underlying OS X. User files should be kept in ~/Library/ somewhere, but it doesn't seem like either Bryce or Quicken are set up this way. When installed in the /Applications folder, neither application could read or write user files in my home directory. After I installed them in ~/Applications/, in my home directory, they both seemed to run fine.
Agree? Disagree? Am I missing something obvious?
Both Quicken and Bryce have numerous configuration files that must be read from and written to, and obviously they can't be written to by a user who does not have write privileges to the Applications folder. For security reasons, I don't like to be logged in as a user with administrative privileges unless I'm actually administering the system.
It seems that, in this case, both Intuit and Corel are breaking some of the philosophies underlying OS X. User files should be kept in ~/Library/ somewhere, but it doesn't seem like either Bryce or Quicken are set up this way. When installed in the /Applications folder, neither application could read or write user files in my home directory. After I installed them in ~/Applications/, in my home directory, they both seemed to run fine.
Agree? Disagree? Am I missing something obvious?