[X Newbies] Conceptualizing OSX was Desktop

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 5/7/03 15:06, "John Wilson" <wilsonjohn at mac.com> wrote:

> In my opinion, it's still a hierachial (sp?) system and can be thought of as
> such. For example, open your hard drive and view it in column mode. It's just
> that when you're logged in one of the accounts you've landed in the middle of
> the hierachy. John

That's exactly correct. Your Home folder is actually here:

/users/yourUserName

Which means that it is two levels below the "root" of the filesystem. But
you needn't worry about that - OS X is designed so users who don't need to
look any further don't have to.
 

Kirk


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