Your Home

Home is an area of your Mac that Apple has set up for you to work in. It has a number of folders already created in which you can store your work, and a Public folder in which you can put files you want to share with others who might use the machine. If you are the only person who ever uses the computer, you are still considered one of the “users” and you have a password—remember that password you choose the first time you turned on the machine? You had better remember that password.

Do not move or rename any of the folders in your Home area! They have important jobs to do and Mac OS X depends on being able to find their names and ...

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