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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Library folder changed from being visible in Mac OS X Snow Leopard to being invisible in Mac OS X Lion. Apple decided to hide the Library folder from users to protect them from damaging the ...

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 ...