![]() ![]() I warned OP that in the context of “portable apps,” it is not saved in the application bundle, and I also mentioned that it is not always a good thing that apps leave files behind in other places when they are uninstalled. Nobody said it should be stored in the application bundle. There are “uninstalled” type apps you can get for MacOS that will hunt down those files and nuke them as well, but very few apps leave files of a significant size behind - and the advantage to leaving them there is that if you ever decide to use Brave again, it will start up with all your old settings. It also does not get removed when you “just drag the app to the trash” which as an OCD autistic who also once came from Windows, makes me twitchy. ![]() Now, when you save settings and make changes, MacOS is going to save that in ~/Library/Application Support/Brave or something similar, and that does not travel with the app. MacOS is moving the entire app folder without your intervention. That’s why you can just drag the Brave icon to the trash to “uninstall” it, or toss it on a USB stick and run it from there. So you can go into /Applications and double-click on Brave and it will start, but in the background MacOS is going into /Applications/Brave.app/ and finding the files it needs to run Brave. But for purposes of the user interface, MacOS is treating it like a file. What’s actually happening is, MacOS is showing you a folder called Brave.app with every file Brave needs to run, styled as an all-in-one app, and you’re moving the folder into /Applications. ![]() So for instance if you download Brave browser, you open a DMG (disk image, a portable container format similar to the way pirates on Windows use ISO) and drag Brave.app to /Applications. app extension that MacOS treats like a file in the user interface. ![]()
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