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There any advantage with a format over Archive & Install?
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<blockquote data-quote="Emrys" data-source="post: 12603" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>Don't know for sure. Depends on how the apps that you have in your /Applications directory install themselves. If they just install into their own directory, and keep everything in there, then you should be ok. If they acutally put stuff in like /Library or /System, I couldn't say. None of that will be there after a fresh install.</p><p></p><p>The way Apple packages their apps is cool. They create a directory called Mail.app, and everything is inside of that, except for your data, which is under your /Users stuff. Then they actually symlink it or something to name it Mail. They somehow open the app that is a few directories down. It's not a symlink, and I haven't done too much looking, but it is cool, how they are like packages.</p><p></p><p>Could be plain knowledge to alot of you, and I could be just coming off a really bad Windows trip <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emrys, post: 12603, member: 2"] Don't know for sure. Depends on how the apps that you have in your /Applications directory install themselves. If they just install into their own directory, and keep everything in there, then you should be ok. If they acutally put stuff in like /Library or /System, I couldn't say. None of that will be there after a fresh install. The way Apple packages their apps is cool. They create a directory called Mail.app, and everything is inside of that, except for your data, which is under your /Users stuff. Then they actually symlink it or something to name it Mail. They somehow open the app that is a few directories down. It's not a symlink, and I haven't done too much looking, but it is cool, how they are like packages. Could be plain knowledge to alot of you, and I could be just coming off a really bad Windows trip :) [/QUOTE]
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