On 27 Jul 2005 at 15:49, Andrew Stiller wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> 
> > "~" 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"
> 
> Yep, there it is, five layers down. How sensible. How useful.

Symbolic links (whatever the OS X term for it) should make that 
irrelevant.

Many UNIX command-line shells, for instance, accept "cd" [ENTER] as 
the command to take you to your home directory. I would not doubt 
that there isn't something very similar implemented in OS X at the 
GUI level, similar to Microsoft's ill-named "My Documents" folder.

You should treat your HOME directory as the root of all your data 
storage.

It's probably a lot easier than you think, and mysterious only 
because you simply haven't learned about it yet.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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