Updates NEED to automatically link to the alias in my Dock Menu

[Anonymous]

I think it's sensational that Fusion releases a new update every 2 weeks; fantastic; what a great concept from a software company, vs like Adobe every few months.

Now to my pet peeve, when Fusion software updates, it NEEDS TO automatically link the updated version of Fusion with my stored application alias in my dock bar.

After EVERY update, that alias link is broken, which is annoying because now I need to go searching for the updated location; which is not in Applications, but in some abstract folder off somewhere, to find the updated version of Fusion so I can drag it back down to my short cut dock - and wait another 2 weeks to rinse and repeat.

Often there are is even a secondary version present in the folder, so I need to then figure out which is the most recent update. It would be nice if the Fusion updates removed the old version as well as link the new version to the alias.

Just my 2 cents, thanks,

Alldaron

[roambotics_scott]

Yeah it's absurd - the app disappears from my Dock every update.

It'd be great also to do the Apple thing and just put it in /Applications and call it a day, but finding a way not to force users to search in Finder would be great 

Oh why not use Spotlight, you ask ? It's a mystery..

[Anonymous]

Yeah, Spotlight is one of those totally useless functions which always returns way too much [1200 results], and way too wrong results.

And the options to narrow down the results are equally useless.

This NEEDS to be rebuilt by Apple. Not repaired, but throw it out and start over with some logical programmers.

[roambotics_scott]

Agreed about Spotlight (just in general, Apple somehow can't manage search and they desperately need to figure that out).. but the problem here is that Autodesk is doing weird and wrong things with the app by (1) putting it in ~/Applications instead of /Applications, and (2) replacing the previous version with a new one rather than updating it within the bundle as you're supposed to.

(2) in particular is annoying because it should be (relatively) trivial to fix.

It's great that it's a semi-universal app, but I really wish they'd take some time to figure out the right way to do things in the native OS (whether that's with menus, updating, etc)

[keqingsong]

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