On 19/08/2011, at 7:14 AM, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote:
> On 16.08.2011, at 04:11, Brian Ferguson wrote:
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>> For a long time my Users/Applications has had only one entry - TypeIt4Me - and I've always wondered why others are not there.
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>> However, in Lion, this is still the case - Users/Applications folder is still there and shown in the Finder sidebar, TypeIt4Me is the only Application therein
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> There is a misunderstanding here. Your Users/Applications folder was created AFTER the installation of Lion was completed not during the installation, it was created by Migration Assistance (assuming you used Migration Assistance to transfer your old data.) If you install Lion and then take a close look at the computer you will see that there is NO Users/Applications folder.
I only use Migration Assistant to transfer data between a computer which has been superseded to a new machine. However, the first time this occurred would have been 8-9 years ago to my first laptop and subsequent UPGRADES would have copied the FIRST Users/Applications folder to the next upgrade. From then on, each time I UPDATED a System on the same computer, say Leopard through to Snow Leopard on a laptop, Migration Assistant was not needed. But it was used to transfer files from MacBook to iMac.
Snow Leopard was on my iMac when I decided to add Lion.
I bought the recommended Take Control books but never got round to doing anything such as checking Preferences, running Maintenance Scripts, etc. because I work up in the middle of one night and thought it a good time to get and download and install Lion. And it happened. Right over the top of Snow Leopard. There were no changes to anything that I could see except to the major improvements to windows, etc.
For the last decade I have always installed System upgrades this way; Since I do not fiddle with any OS X System material, it has always worked.
Perhaps I'm lucky but this method works.
I suspect that the most difficult concept of Lion is with its method of "saving" files - not so much that it is done but where and how to locate stuff when needed. No doubt there will be plenty of books written on this topic alone.
PS: Installing Lion at night took at least 9h10m, but again, it worked. To install, 35m.
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>> , and TypeIt4Me IS shown in Launchpad.
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> This is in line with my experience too.
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>> My Launchpad uses five screens, all applications are shown alphabetically. Screen 1 is for the Apple Applications; the rest appear in Screens 2-5.
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> By me too.
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> Kind regards,
> Žorvaršur
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