We want to install an app in a user’s Application folder and not the system-wide app folder. At the moment, with the Install Application action on Mac, the target drive is the system app folder. If I could provide the target path folder, that would be great!
Install app in the user Application folder-macSolved
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2 years ago
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We can make that happen @Kent0n; you could move the app to the current users’ application directory. Here is a script to do that:
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#!/bin/bash # Application name as parameter APP_NAME="$1" # System app directory SYSTEM_APP_DIR="/Applications" # Current User CURRENT_USER= # Home folder of current user HOME_FOLDER=$(dscl . -read /Users/"$CURRENT_USER" NFSHomeDirectory | cut -d: -f2 | xargs) # Current user application directory USER_APP_DIR="$HOME_FOLDER/Applications" # Create if user has no Application folder if [ ! -d "$USER_APP_DIR" ]; then /bin/mkdir "$USER_APP_DIR" /bin/chmod 755 "$USER_APP_DIR" /usr/sbin/chown "$CURRENT_USER" "$USER_APP_DIR" else if [ -d "$USER_APP_DIR/$APP_NAME" ]; then echo "App already exists in user's Applications folder" exit 0 fi fi # Copy from system folder to user folder /bin/cp -R "$SYSTEM_APP_DIR/$APP_NAME" "$USER_APP_DIR" # Move from system folder to user folder # /bin/mv "$SYSTEM_APP_DIR/$APP_NAME" "$USER_APP_DIR/$APP_NAME" exit 0 |
You just have to provide the app name as a parameter. For example, Book.app
Note, that you may experience issues with the working of the app when you move it from a system-wide folder to a user-based folder.
Hope this helps
Ciao!
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2 years ago
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Splendid! This works for me
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