The Home Folder
Mac OS X creates a Home folder for each user account in the Users folder (Figure 27 ), with the user's short name as the folder name. The icon for the folder appears as a house for the user who is currently logged in and as a regular folder for all other users. Each user's Home folder contains folders for storing his files (Figure 32 ):
Desktop contains all items (other than mounted disks) on the user's desktop.
Documents is the default file location for document files.
Movies, Music , and
Pictures are for storing video, audio, and image files.
Sites is for the user's Web site, which can be put online with the Personal Web Sharing feature.
Library is for storing various preferences files, as well as fonts.
Public is for storing shared files.
Applications , when present, is for storing applications installed by the user for his private use.
Chapter 16 and fonts are covered in
Chapter 11 .
Although a user can open another user's Home folder, he can only open the Public and Sites folders within that user's Home folder; all other folders are locked (Figure 31 when viewed by another user.

Figure 34. A dialog like this one appears if you try to open another user s private folder.

Figure 32. Each user's Home folder is preconfigured with folders for storing documents and settings files.
