On 15.08.2011, at 20:17, jem cabanes wrote:

>> (…)  it’s no use having an ~/Library folder if the /Users/~/Applications folder is gone.
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> This is new to me. What am I missing? I've always seen Applications on /HD/Applications, never on ~/Applications. And yet ~/Library is a pretty good use.
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Since OS 10.4.11 and all the way till OS 10.6.8 there has always been ~/Applications on my computer. I think it is a pre-installed default folder for those applications you only want to install in your user account (and not for all users). This folder has an "A" on it, in other words, it does not look like a normal folder and because of this I am pretty sure that it was created by the installer and not by me. 

This means I have always had 2 Applications folders. One folder is now gone in Lion. 


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