View your Home folder from the hard disk

Above you see another way of looking at your Home folder. You can tell by the highlight that I clicked on the hard drive icon “Macintosh HD” in the top portion of the Sidebar. This displayed the folders stored on that hard drive; you can see them in the column to the right.

Then I clicked on “Users,” which displayed my Home folder in the next column. If you make any other users, as explained in Lesson 9, you will see all of those users here.

Then I clicked on “robin,” which displayed my Home folders in the next column. Notice the folders in this column have the same names as the folders in the Sidebar; that's because they're the same folders. In this view you can see where they are stored on your Mac. ...

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