move adobe apps into folder

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I've had my macbook for a week now :)

The only thing is in applications theirs 14 folders for Adobe products, when I move them all into a /Adobe/ folder they all get a "App moved, repair now" pop up, and even after clicking 'repair now' on every load it still comes up. Is theyre a proper way to move them, I'm not used to osx :Angry-Tongue:
 
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before I installed photoshop (photoshop, bridge, stock photos, device manager) I created a folder in apps named "adobe".
When I ran the potoshop installer, I just chose the install folder to be /Applications/Adobe instad of /Applications/
 
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Usually, moving apps around shouldn't cause problems -- a lot of people like to keep their \Applications folder organized -- but it's caused problems for me. OS X usually registers changes in location, but moving apps around just like that increases your chances of running into problems.

There might be a better way to do it, anyone know?
 
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as I said in my earlier post, you need to create the folder before installing the adobe products...
When running the installer, there should be an option to change the default install location. (just change it to your newly created folder)
 
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This is specifically the case for Adobe apps cause there's a lot of deep rooted stuff. I guess the only way to do that is to do it while installation like our friend Nputer has mentioned...
 
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I originally installed photoshop using the default options. (install to /Applications) I got so sick of 5 adobe folders in my apps folder that I uninstalled photoshop and reinstalled it using my above method.
 

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