After running Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard disc, the Applications folder inside my home directory became empty or is not linked to the main /Applications folder outside my home directory. How do I restore the Applications folder inside my home?
1 Answer
The applications folder inside your home directory is not a critical folder; It's purpose is to allow non-administrator users to install applications which they may use when they don't have permissions to write to the /Applications/
folder.
If you wish to make your personal applications folder point to the global applications folder, then run ln -s /Applications ~/Applications
in Terminal.
Since this is not the design, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's repair utilities continue to remove this in the future.