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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Moving Around the Filesystem

Jeff Ripke
Jeff Ripke
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Posted by Jeff Ripke
Jeff Ripke
41,989 Points

Why does MAC OS have a /home directory?

It is also empty, is it just added automatically and can it be deleted?

1 Answer

Stuart Ringold
Stuart Ringold
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Stuart Ringold
Stuart Ringold
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It's a legacy folder from back in the day when user folders were in the /home directory instead of /Users folder. http://superuser.com/questions/524632/what-is-home-directory-in-mac-os-used-for

Probably unwise to delete it as some system applications or resources may expect it to be there. It takes up all of a kilobyte.