sorry for the blank above...BACK TO THE ORIGINAL post..
>>Like I DL safari and the extention is all types of odd but it executes and installs the program but then it throws the downloaded
>>executable into the trash? Is this normal?
This was a .dmg I'm willing to bet. Dmg's can be scripted to delete themselves after a successful installation (*which I personally think is handy but oh well)
>>And does anyone know how to directly copy favorites to this machine?
To Safari? honestly I don't know as I do not personally use Safari...
Here's the Apple resource file on it though.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=51974
>>like there is no organization it seems. I know installing software is a tad odd...like just dragging something into the applications folder
>>with autoinstall it, but what about the trial version of Office...how do I get rid of this or OS 9?
Here's the idea. Applications usually do not need to install anything else as the base system extensions are within the applicaiton itself. Any additiuons are usually stored in either your home folder (* for example ~/Library/Preferences) If there are any user wide modifications needed its stored within /Library. Non-apple applications are not supposed to install anything into /System....its reserved for OS only anything installed within could easily be broken on an update.
So if you need to uninstall anything its as easy as deleting the applicatoin. If you need to re-install only then do you really have to worry about ~/Library/Preferences if you want it to revert to default settings.
>> Cuz I could not find a favorites folder or anything like it....
This is considered a preference type folder....there is not a system wide "favorites" folder in reverence to bookmarks.
>>Like I DL safari and the extention is all types of odd but it executes and installs the program but then it throws the downloaded
>>executable into the trash? Is this normal?
This was a .dmg I'm willing to bet. Dmg's can be scripted to delete themselves after a successful installation (*which I personally think is handy but oh well)
>>And does anyone know how to directly copy favorites to this machine?
To Safari? honestly I don't know as I do not personally use Safari...
Here's the Apple resource file on it though.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=51974
>>like there is no organization it seems. I know installing software is a tad odd...like just dragging something into the applications folder
>>with autoinstall it, but what about the trial version of Office...how do I get rid of this or OS 9?
Here's the idea. Applications usually do not need to install anything else as the base system extensions are within the applicaiton itself. Any additiuons are usually stored in either your home folder (* for example ~/Library/Preferences) If there are any user wide modifications needed its stored within /Library. Non-apple applications are not supposed to install anything into /System....its reserved for OS only anything installed within could easily be broken on an update.
So if you need to uninstall anything its as easy as deleting the applicatoin. If you need to re-install only then do you really have to worry about ~/Library/Preferences if you want it to revert to default settings.
>> Cuz I could not find a favorites folder or anything like it....
This is considered a preference type folder....there is not a system wide "favorites" folder in reverence to bookmarks.
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