One of the most consistently successful workarounds for eliminating a broad group of problems under Mac OS X is the creation of a fresh user account. The problems that can necessitate creation of a ...

It can be a panicky situation: you install a new application or system update, or simply restart/logout and are suddenly unable to log back into your default user account. Fortunately, this is ...

If you accidentally merged User folders, like the downloads Library with another drive or folder, here is how to unmerge folders in Windows and restore them back to default location. Note: Even if you ...

Back in OS X Lion and then again in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple hid access to the user Library folder to prevent neophyte OS X users from messing around in the areas of the file system that could cause ...

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple set things up so that the user Library folder isn’t available to the casual user. This is probably to keep less savvy folks from getting in there and messing about with ...

How do I access the usually hidden USER library folder remotely? Locally, I can access it from the Finder with the Go menu while holding down the Option key, that is not possible remotely. As you may ...

You got it backwards. I have a slight bias towards not trying to protect non-technical users from doing dumb things. Hiding ~/Library is fine, because it's so easy to get around, but I don't ...

How can I open the user Library folder in a disk image located on an external disk? The technique of selecting Go and holding down the Option key reverts to desktop computer. You can check your path ...

In macOS Ventura you can move your user's Home directory to a larger or faster external drive. Here's how. In UNIX operating systems, user accounts are stored in individual folders called the user ...

Some files in macOS may not be necessary and can be safely removed from your Mac. Here's how to delete them. macOS is a UNIX-based system at its core, and as such, its filesystem arrangement is more ...