Patrick, I appreciate the explanation.

On Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 1:24:50 PM UTC-5 Patrick Woolsey wrote:

> On 1/18/24 at 2:36 PM, [email protected] (Well, 
> Therefore) wrote:
>
> >Using BBEdit's menu BBEdit > Folders > Document Backups opens 
> >~Library/Containers/BBEdit/Data/Documents/BBEdit Backups. In 
> >Finder, folder ~/Documents contains what appears to be a folder 
> >named "BBEdit", within which is what appears to be another 
> >folder named "BBEdit Backups."
> >
> >I have two questions. First, can ~/Documents/BBEdit be removed, 
> >or at least hidden.
>
> It cannot be removed while BBEdit is configured to preserve 
> historical backups.
>
> >The reason I don't simply move it to the Trash leads to the 
> >second question, which is...
> >
> >... just what is this mysterious entity that looks like 
> ~/Documents/BBEdit?
>
> It is an OS fabrication, much as BBEdit's sandbox container 
> appears to be named "BBEdit" while actually being "com.barebones.bbedit".
>
> >The User Guide cautions against messing with this mysterious 
> >entity (humor intended.)
>
> Please heed the manual. :-)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Patrick Woolsey
> ==
> Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>
>
>

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