How to move applications without copying?

Question

Hi there,
I just installed 10.7 today, after I found out that my MacBook Pro is a month too old to run 10.8.  I've noticed a few changes.  One of them is that my applications folder is not to my liking.
I organize my applications into folders.  I have a LOT of applications and I'm an organized person.  Having 150+ applicaitons in one folder would a) reduce my productivity and b) make me cringe every time I use my computer.  OS 10.7 doesn't seem to like my choice.  When I try to move applicaitons out of the base folder, the application is copied, not moved.  Is there an easy way to move applicaitons without copying them?  Do I have to hold a special key or do a 7-finger swipe or something?
I can move apps using a sudo mv command in the terminal.  The last time I remember using a terminal to overcome the operating system trying to protect me from myself... oh, I remember.   It was about 10 years ago when I was using a Windows machine, and it was the experience that convinced me to switch to Mac.
Now, before I get a thousand replys, please don't bother telling me not to move my applications.  I've organized them like this for nearly a decade and I'm going to continue doing so.  They don't update, they got confused... you can use whatever argument you want.  I'm going to keep doing it this way.  I don't save every document on my computer into one huge gross pile of crap, and I won't have my applications that way either.  It's my computer and I should be able to organize it how I want (yes, I know software developers have to make choices in designing software.  I just disagree with the choices made here, and I think hardcoding in paths is bad design).  Launchpad doesn't allow for subfolders, so its out.
The question is, is there an "official" way to move apps, or do I have to kludge it through the terminal?
Thanks,
Adrian

Answer 1

Thanks so much for enabling my bad behavior :-).
Haha! No problem.
I'll also add that I still think its bad design to hard code in paths.
I agree. Like this one I discovered a while back:
The Adobe CS4 applications have their own new annoyance. I have found that if you remove the profile "sRGB Profile.icc" from the /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/folder, the File Info dialogue box in Illustrator CS4 will come up blank! So will the entire Adobe Extension Manager CS4 interface. What this one particular profile could possibly have to do with the display of a dialogue box, I don't know. You also can't move that profile to the /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder, or the Profiles folder in your user account. While the profile is just as active in either location, the CS4 applications mentioned will blank out if that profile is not specifically in the System's Profiles folder.
Really bad programming there. For one, there's zero need in the first place for a display box to require any kind of profile. Secondly, there's also zero reason for the apps to hard code the location of a particular profile. If sRGB is in an active Profiles folder in any location, it should be able to find the profile the same way every other app does.
But I also wish there was a way to click a checkbox or something to take the training wheels off.  I don't like the "Apple knows best" attitude, which is exactly what drove me away from Windows many years ago.  But I digress...
Not completely. That's been a huge gripe from many, many users on Apple's decision making of late. As in, "What!? You removed Save As? What!? You mean I can't turn Autosave/Versions off!!??" Whose documents are these, anyway? The early Lion "feature" that insisted on opening all of the windows and apps you had open on a restart, again to mimic an iPad, which wouldn't stay turned off until enough users complained. And other examples where Apple is trying much too hard to try and make OS X look and behave like the iOS. Sorry, this is a desktop computer I'm using, not an iPad. Quit trying to make my desktop behave like an iPad. Different type of computer, completely different usage.