How to move an application

Is it feasible to move an application (already properly installed) from one volume, or machine, to another?
I know applications normally require installers.
For istance, I've got iPhoto installed on one of my machines. I can't remember how it got there. I don't have the installer disk and don't feel like buying it.
Has someome described a series of steps I can follow to move an application like this to a different machine? Let's say I'm using a thumb drive to do it. I know other files and folders related to the application would have to be located, copied, and then pasted in the right places on the new volume.
Thanks in advance,
Tim
466 MHZ G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Timothy,
Many applications can just be copied -- drag the application or its folder from Applications folder to Applications folder. More complex apps can install code for themselves in /Library/Application Support. You'd want to check out and probably copy anything named for the application or the company, e.g., both Palm folders if you were moving the Palm Desktop application. DON'T just copy the Application Support folder
Settings in <your home folder>/Library/Preferences, as Kappy notes. While in <your home folder>/Library, look for folders relevant to your app, e.g., iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins.
You might have to move some fonts, if an application installed them and expects them to be present.
A few apps scatter themselves more widely and for all practical purposes have to be reinstalled.
Please be aware of copyright. Some version of iPhoto shipped with all recent releases of the OS, so copying that version to a machine where it had been deleted / lost / deliberately not installed would be fine. But iPhoto version 6 is a pay-for upgrade for most of us. Copying that would be a license and copyright violation.
John

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