The Home Folder


Mac OS X creates a Home folder for each user account in the Users folder (Figure 27), with the user's short name as the folder name. The icon for the folder appears as a house for the user who is currently logged in and as a regular folder for all other users. Each user's Home folder contains folders for storing his files (Figure 32):

  • Desktop contains all items (other than mounted disks) on the user's desktop.

  • Documents is the default file location for document files.

  • Movies, Music, and Pictures are for storing video, audio, and image files.

  • Sites is for the user's Web site, which can be put online with the Personal Web Sharing feature.

  • Library is for storing various preferences files, as well as fonts.

  • Public is for storing shared files.

  • Applications, when present, is for storing applications installed by the user for his private use.

Tips

  • You can quickly open your Home folder by clicking the name of your Home folder in the Sidebar.

  • Personal Web Sharing is discussed in Chapter 16 and fonts are covered in Chapter 11.

  • Although a user can open another user's Home folder, he can only open the Public and Sites folders within that user's Home folder; all other folders are locked (Figure 33). A dialog like the one in Figure 34 appears if you attempt to open a locked folder.

    Figure 33. The Home folder in Figure 31 when viewed by another user.


    Figure 34. A dialog like this one appears if you try to open another user s private folder.



Figure 32. Each user's Home folder is preconfigured with folders for storing documents and settings files.




Visual QuickStart Guide. Mac OS X 10. 4 Tiger
Mac Os X 10.4 Tiger (Visual Quickstart Guides)
ISBN: 0321423372
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 301
Authors: Maria Langer

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