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> Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed.

For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in:

  chflags hidden ~/Music
Still available in the shell or in the Finder with the ⇧⌘. shortcut but out of the way in normal use. Return to normal with the flag nohidden. Although Documents and Desktop seem to be a special case because of the iCloud shenanigans. I seem to have hidden them in the past, but can’t unhide them. :/


> For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: > chflags hidden ~/Music

I sort of do the opposite. I hide any folders I add to the home directory

      chflags hidden ~/bin 

      chflags hidden ~/Applications

      chflags hidden ~/sandbox
so that in the unlikely event anyone sees my home directory, there is absolutely nothing interesting about it. "This looks like a clean install. Nothing to see here."


Where do you keep your music?


Who keeps music?


There’s dozens of us


me too! we should all meet for a beer sometime.




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