I have two hard drives one SSD, one HDD. How do I make programs on the two HDs appear in one applications folder?

I am use to windows when you install a program regardless of where is it install it will appear in the programs part of start. I was wondering if there is a way to do something similar on mac?

Two things -
You really should only install programs in the /Applications folder on your system HD. Installing them in other locations is an invitation to problems.
OS X isn't Windows and there is no "Start Menu". If you want to see all applications you can do that by opening the /Applications folder that is by default on your Dock. The second way is to open the OS X Launchpad. But your applications need to be in the /Applications folder to begin with. You can also use the Dock to see or access any or all of your applications. Just drag them from the /Applications folder directly to the Dock. The "icons" in the Dock are actually aliases to the actual applications. There are also third-party Dock replacements or enhancements that do more than what the OS X Dock does itself.

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Hi Everybody,
I have had my T410s for 9 months and I love it. No problems at all. I was a contractor so I could use whatever laptop I wanted. Now I work for a big company that issued me a Thinkpad T410 with Windows XP. Now the T410 model has a huge heavy battery compared to the T410s. An ex-colleague of mine used to have a T60p with 2 internal Hard Drives one with Windows XP and one with Windows 7, and he could boot the computer with the Hard Drive of choice.
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I tried that and I get an error message that says that it detected a possible virus.
I tried that and I get an error message that says that it detected a possible virus.
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Any other idea?
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HT1495 Already have 2 accounts on my non apple computer how do I share music between the two?

My friend and I both have iTune accounts but want to share the music WE bought off of iTunes. What's the easiest way to do this on a PC?

To give other users read-only access to your iTunes library, use the Sharing features of iTunes. Sharing works over the local network as well as on the same computer. See the built-in help for details.
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iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
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I have two hard drives in my mac pro. They both show up on the mac side but when I use windows only the one shows up. Is there a way to have access to the second hard drive using windows?

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BDAqua - under Get Info, when I was on Leopard, I tried changing a User Permissions category called 'Everybody' from Read Only to Read and Write. Upon restart two days later, Leopard would not start up (loads of writing on the screen, with the Mac power button, asking me to restart). To cut a long story, I am now back on Tiger lol (Leopard issues for another discussion lol), so now I dare not play with anything which says Read Only, especially when it's probably not even necessary. I am writing this from the library, so don't know what exactly it says in Get Info - User Permissions for either drive at the moment. If this is relevant, I can have a look later and post back, I'll also verify permissions in Disk Utility for both drives, but I think they are fine. Actually, when I was on Leopard, my 'Untitled' drive took ages to verify permissions, and always loads of writing appeared! Now that I'm on Tiger, the other day when I verified Disk Permissions, it was quick and fine!
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In the screen shots, 'Untitled' is model ST31, 'Spare' is model WDC

Hi BDAqua, sorry I should have just opened it in the first place! I don't know why that man told me there was only one hard drive inside, perhaps a misunderstanding.
It seems that there are actually two hard drives inside, one in A, and one in B (see photo)! So, if this is the case, I don't have a problem with the two hard drive icons.
I guess if a G5 shows two hard drives on the desktop, then there's two hard drives in the machine!
Thanks for helping anyway.

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Help needed. I have a 3TB external hard drive partitioned into 1TB's. I used one partition as backup for the main computer hard drive. But now it is greyed out as shown in the disk utility and its name changed, i dont know how that happened, i tried verifying and repairing it but had no luck. I also tried mounting and unmounting it but still no solution. Anyone to help please?

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Hi,
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If your operating system is Windows 2008 and higher(Server) or Windows Vista and higher(Client).
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Two hard drives connected to Airport Extreme. How to include one of them in TimeMachine Backup and use other disc as Time Machine backup disc?

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the title says it all. I've got an airport extreme and two hard drives connected to it. My idea was to use one as my additional storage (say DISC STORAGE) and the other one as my backup drive (say DISC BACKUP). I would like to backup my mac AND DISC STORAGE together to DISC BACKUP using time machine. My mac has 256 GB HDD, DISC STORAGE is 1 TB big, DISC BACKUP 2 TB. So there are no space issues.
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I would like to make one static copy of Firefox, so I can restore it if I have a hard drive crash, or if I want to upgrade my internal disk, or if I want to have a duplicate on another replacement computer.

''dupe of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/918473''
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My Seagate external Hard drive is saying that it is damaged I have another hard drive to transfer everything to but how do I fix this one?

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