OS X Yosemite :: Remove Extra Application Directories
Dec 1, 2014
how does one remove an added "application" directory? Not just delete it, but prevent the OS from always looking there, even when it's gone ? On Yosemite, I tried to be "clever" (hint: I wasn't and move a few silly apps to a big external USB disk. The idea was I have 1TB internal, 3TB external, and I thought to separate out some apps onto an remote disk so I can disconnect that (thus the hammer version of "now others can't run this app"). And just copying these files to /Volume/Data (the external USB3 drive) functions fine.
Mechanically, this disk shuts itself off, and it takes a good 10 seconds to wind up. So whenever I search for an app or start an app *on the main disk*, it seems one ends up searching all "app directories" anyway (I put that in quotes because I presume that's why the disk is spinning up when I run an app that has nothing to do with my external disk).
So I decided it was silly to have those apps on the external disk because of the spinup time, experiment failed, I uninstalled the apps. BUT the disk still seems to need to spin up before starting a new app up even though the app directory on the external disk is gone. Being primarily a linux hacker before I bought this Mac , I would say "you have /Volume/Data in your PATH". Which is probably the case at some level. But I'm not finding anything to this effect in the system preferences..
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Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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