Sometimes people may find their hard-drive space being progressively used up, and there are many reasons why this could happen. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

If you have photographs, videos, documents and PDFs saved to your computer, and who doesn't, you're using folders to organize them. Just like their real-world counterparts, folders are useful to keep ...

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 ...

Throughout its history, Apple has been focusing ever more on the new user and others who have no desire to access the bits under the hood. In fact, the very first releases of Mac OS X made a number of ...

One of Apple's "big brother" features introduced in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (now called plain ol' OS X Lion) is the hiding of the user's Library folder. While this may be a fine precaution for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moving your Windows User folder to another SSD or from a legacy HDD or modern SSD can improve performance, provide a more responsive Windows experience, and increase security. The folder, located in C ...

encrypted user folder on an external disk- can it be done? a user folder on an unencrypted disk works just fine. i managed to sort of do it by logging into a second empty account on the internal, ...