Lesson 8. Manage User Home Folders
Goals
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Describe user home folders
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Delete users’ accounts and preserve their home folder contents
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Migrate and restore home folders
When you log in to your Mac, you can securely store documents in your home folder. You can store and access documents in other locations, but this lesson focuses on your home folder. In macOS Catalina, your home folder is stored on the read-write APFS Data volume, technically separate from your read-only APFS System volume, but this separation doesn’t make a difference in your troubleshooting.
Reference 8.1 User Home Folders
The default location for a locally stored home folder is /Users/name, where name is the user account name. In the following example, johnny and jane ...
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