home folder

I used to keep my "Applications" directory in the home folder.

This should print a list of files in your home folder for which you don't have read permission.

Home Folders: stores all user files on the network.

Along with my home folder, I had my entire iTunes collection on that drive.

There's also that other library: the Library folder in my home folder.

So, out of the box, your home folder, when docked, appears to be the Desktop folder.

These files are likely to reside in Library folders in your hard drive or Home folder.

You don't need root/Admin access to delete everything in a person's Home folder.

It is possible to mount an external USB hard drive as the home folder during install.

And you can say "Backup my home folder except caches, logs, and trash," or manually add.

The sensitive data is encrypted and stored in a keyring file in the user's home folder.

If you try to drag, for instance, the Documents or Sites folders to your home folder on the new system, the system complains.

There were a couple of other malware scares during the year, including a file that would delete your Home folder if you were careless.

The actual window title for the home folder will be a username, because that's how the directory is named on the actual filesystem.

However, he added: "I clicked on the installer file, and to my horror in 10 seconds the attachment had wiped my entire Home folder!"

If you maximize the window, the menubar will display the window title rather than the static "Home Folder" string.

Once inside the Home folder, go to the Library folder, then to the Preferences folder, and look for files called "com.

Similarly, it unencrypts data on the fly when it is brought to memory for use in applications or when files are moved outside the Home folder.

In the Leopard Dock, my home folder appears as a bunch of stacked folder icons because that's mostly what it contains: other folders.

Not even OS X reacted to the idea that the file server that the student's Home folder was in couldn't be accessed.

If you're using a Mac, you can see where this file is stored by going to your Finder's home folder and following the path google/chrome/default/databases/https.

To find this file, open the Users folder on the Mac's hard drive and open the Home folder, which has an icon that looks like a house.

You can find your login keychain in the Library/Keychains folder in your home folder.

FileVault encrypts all the files in your Home folder, using your log-in password as the key to unlocking your files.

Copying over the data is as easy as connecting to the old computer over the network and dragging some folders from the old home folder to the new one.