How do I move (not backup) purchased Apps?

Hi there
I sent this question to Support earlier but they directed me to Applecare for an answer... Hopefully someone here might be able to help - thanks in advance!
I've been using the Mac App Store since launch. I run my machine with a smallish SSD main drive and a larger hard drive for extra storage. A month ago I moved many of my apps to the hard drive, including 12 items purchased from the app store I don't use often, saving me around 14Gb on my SSD.
Now, whenever I launch the app store, it wants to download these items (since, I assume, it can't see them in my Applications folder).
Is there a way for me to point the App store to my other hard drive?
I had created aliases in my Applications folder to all these anyway, for my own use, but would it help if I researched sym links and used that, or something similar?
I'd like to keep the space saved on my SSD but still have the App Store recognise, and update if necessary, my apps in their new location.
Thanks

Apps must be stored in the Applications folder.
It's one of the things I like about OS X, that applications are so easily moved around.
If you haven't run into problems not having Mac OS X native apps in the Applications folder yet, you may. I've seen an untold amount of Safari crash reports where the user moved the Safari app to the Desktop or somewhere else on the drive and Safari would no longer launch without quitting.
The other thing is, if I do delete them is there a way to stop them trying to download whenever I click "check for available downloads" (or whetever it's called)?
That's handy if you tried downloading an app that was "paused" and needs to resumed. If there are updates available you'll see a red badge icon where you see Updates top right side of the App Store window or a red badge on the App Store icon in your Dock.
"Checking for an available download" is not the same as updates.
You're welcome

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I then purchased many more paid-for apps under a new Apple ID.
I was unaware that the purchased apps are tied to the Apple ID which I happen to be logged in with, at the time of the purchase: I thought they'd be tied to my authorised PC(s).
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No, it seems you don't (want to) understand. I see 2 things very wrong with your explanation.
1. The move would only need to happen between "accounts" demonstrably and legitimately belonging to the same user. In fact, I'm still using both the old one (for updates only, no new purchases) and the new one (updates and purchases -- actually no morep urchases until Apple solves this). And unless I'm mistaken, I can already have my apps on more than one iDevice at the time: eg. on 1 iPhone and1 iPad. I don't ask for apps to be moved between unrelated accounts: only between accounts belonging to the same "person". And I do not see how changing what is effectively just a "label" embedded in the binary files residing on my hard disk (or in the cloud), which can be verified as legitimately belonging to me thru two ID registered on the same authorised PC could possibly allow anyone to cheat the system. The apps' files have embedded an old label before, and a new label after the operation, both belonging to me, associated to my payment details. That's not rocket science.
In fact, both my Apple ID were at some point linked to the same credit card. And in fact, I only created a second one because at some point I managed to forget my Hotmail EMAIL password, not my Apple STORE password!
The two passwords needn't be the same, adding to the confusion. For months I used that account to buy apps, and never checked the email, since I was not interested in marketing from Apple, and I could see the payments from my credit card statements: that's how I forgot my Hotmail EMAIL password for that Hotmail email address.
Since Microsoft wouldn't allow me to access my Hotmail account anymore (and rightly so, becuase I managed to exhaust all possibilities, and even forgot the security question), and so I could not check my Apple Store emails, I then decided to create a new account, this time with a Live! email address, and this time I used the same password for both the Live! EMAIL and the Apple STORE authentication.
For more than TWO years I used the old Hotmail Apple ID to get updates, without during all that time being able to read the email or access that Hotmail account: this should tell you how stupid this system is! And for the same time, and until last month (I no longer buy anything), I used the new ID for both NEW purchases and their updates.
Now after getting both a new iPhone (only because the old one was unfortunately stolen on my holiday) and a new PC, i NO longer want to be forced to use both IDs, which forces me to constantly switch between them, and also carries the risk that I inadvertently purchase something with the old one, to which EMAIL address I no longer have access: so I can't even check invoices. But most of all, I don't want to be inconvenienced like this by Apple.
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2. The policy of inconveniencing (punishing) the huge majority of users (citizens) to prevent a tiny minority from misbehaving can be good for sheep, but not for rational people. It's typical of unimaginative, monopolistic companies (oppressive governments), not of progressive, modern and innovative ones. The cost of protecting their proficts from those who would steal from them is theirs (the company's), not ours (the users'). They should be more creative and inventive, in finding solutions to stop 10 people who would misuse their system, rather than annoying the 10 million who won't. I would never do so (mostly because I thing it's morally wrong, but also because I can't be bothered), but I understand why people invent ways to circumvent this gratuituos, bullish constraints.
Also, CAN'T you REALLY see the difference between these TWO options:
- allowing a user to change an app's associated account ONCE IN A LIFETIME, even only ONCE per app
- FORCING a user to switch Apple IDs EVERY TIME (DAY, OR WEEK) FOREVER, to check and/or update
??? Am I talking to a person, or to a robot, or to a undercover Apple employee here?
Both things are possible. The second is more convenient financially for Apple, that's all.
But it's also so clearly unfair to their customers. No more, thanks.
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