While AppleInsider leads off with the news that a new OS X 10.5.1 build that's undergoing testing fixes the Finder-related problem that can potentially lead to data loss when files are moved between directories, to me the real news lay in another paragraph in the same story.
Apparently the forthcoing update will also allow Apple's Software Update and installer applications to make revisions to application files which may have been moved outside of the designated "Applications" directory.
Having a single Applications folder in which everything is just dumped can drive us organized types crazy. It's especially bad when you're also a developer and self-admitted power-user who has (literally) hundreds of applications and their associated detritus spilling over and out of it.
But every time I've attempted to impose just a little order on things, like putting all of Apple's iLife applications in a folder named iLife, I've been thwarted by the fact that once you do so Apple's Software Update utility can no longer find them. I've even gone so far as to drag them out of the iLife folder, run Software Update, then put them back again once the updates have occurred. Finally I gave up.
All this, even though the Finder can find them and the applications still launch successfully from the Dock.
Obviously the system is keeping track of where applications reside... so why was the Software Update utility so brain dead?
And now it's going to be fixed!
BTW, this is another issue that I've complained about several times on Apple's Feedback site. And while I'm not taking sole credit for the change, obviously enough people have mentioned the same thing for Apple to change Update's behavior.
So if you have an issue, tell Apple about it. Who knows, it may even get fixed.
[via AppleInsider]
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