Bruce,
This is another of the wonderful post from you, with great educational
information.
I Thank You for your continued support and very clear and helpful
information for all of us.
Thank you, also, to the many other Mac users and gurus who contribute
to our information base.
Best wishes,
Don
On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Things that affect all users on a system go here: program plugins, a
few preferences, fonts*, etc. The folders in here, to some extent,
have the same functions as the old System folder folders /Extensions
and /Preferences. This is an imperfect analogy, but about as close as
I can get.
The system wide web documents directory is here, the user one is in
your Sites folder.
<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/index.html> is in
/Library/WebServer/Documents
<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/~johnson/index.html> is in my user
directory. /Users/johnson/Sites/
The Library folder in your user directory has your own preferences,
and you can install plugins and fonts for your own use (an no one
elses) in here. Also, if the user isn't an Administrative user, this
is where preference panes and many things like that get installed.
Again, they don't affect other users of the computer.
This is also where your bookmarks and mail is kept.
*Fonts are complicated, because there's many different places to put
them....
/Library/Fonts: fonts available to all users of the computer
/Users/<username>/Library/Fonts: fonts available only to that user
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts: Adobe's effort to just plain
screw everything up.
/System/Library/Fonts : Fonts the system depends upon. Some programs
won't run if the proper font isn't here. Like all things in /System
leave them the <bleep> alone.
OS X is NOT OS 9, not only is there no need to get into the system and
futz, doing so can really screw things up.
The best advice I can suggest for the recently migrated is hands off
until you learn the new organization, and resist the urge to 'fine
tune' things..it will be like a confident VW Bug home mechanic trying
to tune an old Ferrari with 6 two barrel carbs...You will soon be in
over your head and messing things up.
--
Bruce Johnson
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