If, for some reason (space in my case), you want your applications to reside somewhere other than /Applications, you will still want to have links to those relocated programs in /Applications. For Apple applications, updates are likely to fail if the applications aren't located there, and tools like AppFresh only search that location.
Creating a bunch of aliases is tedious, so here's a quick Terminal trick (that I didn't think would work, as it doesn't under Linux):
$ cd /Applications
$ ln -s /path/to/apps/* .
Change /path/to/apps to the path to your replacement Applications folder, and then run those two Terminal commands (don't overlook the very-important . at the end of the second one), and you're done.
Creating a bunch of aliases is tedious, so here's a quick Terminal trick (that I didn't think would work, as it doesn't under Linux):
$ cd /Applications
$ ln -s /path/to/apps/* .
Change /path/to/apps to the path to your replacement Applications folder, and then run those two Terminal commands (don't overlook the very-important . at the end of the second one), and you're done.
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