[Ti] OT OSX question

[Chris Olson]

On Nov 14, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Christoph Pistor wrote:

> I am confused with Help. When I launch help viewer I cannot see my 
> help anymore.

Please explain what you mean by "cannot see my help anymore".  What did 
you see before that's not there now?

> Now I started looking for the application and the files. However, 
> there seem to be three directories of Library on my computer. One is 
> in root of the hard drive one is under users and one in my own 
> account.

Yeah, leave those alone.  Actually there's one at /System/Library too, 
and there's nothing at /Users.  It should be /Users/Shared/Library.  
Start messing with anything outside your user directory, without 
knowing what you're doing, and more than Help will stop working.

> Where do I have to have what installed under the Documentation and 
> Help directories to see all the help for all the programs all the 
> time?

You don't have to do anything.  The help viewer will launch the help 
section for the application in question automatically.  Any 
applications you install will have their own help routines, and will 
install the appropriate files/directories in ~/Library.  If what I 
think happened did happen, then go to ~/Library/Caches and delete the 
folder called com.apple.helpui.  This will do no harm and will only 
cause the help utility to rebuild its cache.  Be aware this is the 
Library folder in your user account directory (home).  NOT any system 
Libraries.  Do not mess with anything outside your user directory, or 
the /Applications directory, unless you're absolutely certain you know 
what you are doing.  You WILL break your system if you have admin 
access and start mucking around in /Library or /System/Library.

--
Chris