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TUAW Tip: Moving your home folder to another disk (or moving it back)

by Robert Palmer (May 14th, 2009)

In ye olde times, with "Mack OSe 9," many users chose to keep their personal files, work, and documents on a different physical disk from their startup disk. It was a safety measure: If one disk goes down, at least the other won't. There was no structural reason to keep files in a particular disk ...

Mac 101: Quickly change directory in save/open dialogs

by Cory Bohon (Dec 24th, 2008)

More Mac 101, our series of tips for new Mac OS X users. Have you ever tried to open or save a file, and you want to quickly change from the directory (folder) you are browsing to another directory? It might be simpler than you think, and it doesn't require you to go searching for the directory ...

TUAW Tip: visit your Library

by David Chartier (Mar 2nd, 2006)

This tip could definitely be classified as rudimentary to some, but I thought it would be handy to shed some light on a folder in the Home directory that is rarely opened by many users: the Library. For those who sometimes wonder things such as where Safari stores your bookmarks or where Mail.app ...