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Applications Folder - beware Tahoe!

Avatar Rick Churchill
I upgraded my computer to Tahoe. Now my applications folder is in disarray and I cannot move the icons around like on the phone or even put them on different pages.
I had them as recognisable icons on two pages each in alphabetical order. The most used ones on the first page and similar apps like audio, photography, Apple office apps etc. grouped together under one icon.
I submitted the following to Apple:

“Please restore the way the Application Folder use to work. You have removed the user's ability to organise it how he wishes. Now it is harder to find the Application”

Re: Applications Folder - beware Tahoe!

Avatar Tony Still
With the applications window open in Finder:
View > Show View Options (or just Command-J)
Set both 'Group by:' and 'Sort by:' to None.
Rearrange icons until bored.

I doubt there's any way of recovering your previous configuration without recreating it though.

Is it me being cynical or have other people noticed that the User Experience across many devices (not just Apple) has deteriorated since the invention of UX specialists? Perhaps the need to be seen gets in the way of the User eXperience...

Re: Applications Folder - beware Tahoe!

Avatar Rick Churchill
I couldn't set Sort by to "none" but I get that you can use Finder to trawl through the Apps rather than the dedicated Apps App. which has Apples categories along the top. Unfortunately these categories are fixed, you cannot add your own nor can you decide which apps go into which. Apple decided this for you.
Using the Finder allows you to put apps in folders which I have but unlike the Apps App you cannot see the apps within that folder until opening so it is easy to lose where you have put the one you are looking for. I tend to forget the name of a little used app so searching alphabetically is not helpful.

Re: Applications Folder - beware Tahoe!

Avatar Tony Still
I assumed that you were in Icon view, looks like I didn't;t say that. Don't know why you can't set 'Sort by:' to "none" - works here.

However, you can then group the applications into freely-positioned "clumps" in Icon view to get whatever grouping you want without using sub-folders (just like we used to do when MacOS was still called System).

If you keep forgetting the name of your app, think of a name that you will remember and create an alias with that name. I can never remember the name of Apple's 'FileMerge' utility so I have an alias called 'Diff' (being what the rest of the world calls it).
 
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