Andrew,
"~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X
username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and
located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it should be marked with a
home icon. Inside, there should be a folder called "Public" and inside
*that* should be a folder called "Drop Box" -- unless of course you
manually deleted them, which would have been a really bad idea.
I agree with Johannes that you should keep all of your documents,
including OS 9 documents, inside your ~/Documents folder. You can
create aliases to them in other locations, but they do need to
physically reside inside ~/Documents precisely to avoid permission
problems.
I seem to recall that you had some pretty unorthodox ideas about where
to store documents on your HD (storing all Finale documents inside the
Finale application folder, for instance). You are just going to have
to accept that you *cannot* do that in OS X. It just doesn't work that
way. You *must* put all the documents that belong to you inside your
user folder, and ideally in your Documents folder. You can, of course,
create aliases to them, and put those aliases anywhere you like, but
the originals must be inside your user folder.
And you definitely need to repair your permissions once you've done
this.
- Darcy
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On 27 Jul 2005, at 12:06 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Simon Troup wrote:
Don't know if this is of any help but an apple tech guy told me an
easy way to set permissions when moving between systems is to just
pass any files you want to be able to use through your drop box
(~/Public/Drop Box/)
So what's the Drop Box, when it's at 'ome? I just looked in the index
of OSX--The Missing Manual, and there's no reference to it. "~/Public"
means nothing to me, either.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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