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 ...
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