Program is in the trash

[supanatral]

I was looking through my applications folder and i found a file called "applications" inside that folder so i put it in the trash bin. The "applications" file wasn't the actual folder, just an icon inside the application folder. So when I went to launch any program, it said that the program was in the trash bin. I'm unable to put the icon back into the applications folder but i was able to put it on the desktop. When I did that, they applications started working again.

Even if I rename it to something else and put it back into the trash bin, it has an error once again saying that the program is in the trash bin. Any ideas? I'm scared to get rid of it completly.

 

[DeltaMac]

You should do more checking to discover what kind of file that is. You can Get Info on that file, and check what the file Kind is.

If you double-click that file, what happens? You may have accidentally renamed one of your applications, and you should be able to tell if an application opens.

 

[supanatral]

The file was less then a kilobyte and when i double clicked it, nothing happened.

Anyways I found out what happened. When I reopened finder, they file that was marked applications turned itself into the applications folder and the applications folder on the hard drive magically disapeared.