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Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled?

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"Alan Baker"  wrote in message news:ll6u3m$qb4$1@news.datemas.de...

On 2014-05-17 05:40:33 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> On 14-05-17 00:33, David Empson wrote:
>
>> If you have a specific need to access /Users/Shared, or the home or
>> public folder of other user accounts, then even if /Users is 
>> hidden, it
>> is easily worked around, e.g. by creating a symbolic link to the 
>> folder,
>
> hiding a folder is security by obscurity and adds no security.
>
> The question is: what the h_ll is an application meddling with root
> level directories ? Upgrading itunes should only mess with what is
> inside /Applications/iTunes and in /Library for whatever frameworks 
> it
> provides.

>Someone made a mistake. Mistakes happen.

Yeah, and you were your parents biggest mistake.

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Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-05-16 19:51 -0700
  Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-05-17 03:02 +0000
  Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-05-17 16:33 +1200
    Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-05-17 16:43 +1200
      Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-05-16 22:45 -0700
        Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-05-17 08:20 -0400
          Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? billy@MIX.COM - 2014-05-18 20:11 +0000
            Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-05-18 17:37 -0400
    Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-17 01:40 -0400
      Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-05-16 23:03 -0700
        Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-05-17 18:47 +1200
        Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? "Puffin Killer" <puffythekiller@telus.net> - 2014-05-19 16:59 -0400
          Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-05-19 19:09 -0700
  Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-05-17 07:07 +0100
  Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-17 15:48 +0000
  Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-17 16:02 +0000
    Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-17 16:31 -0400
      Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-05-18 11:56 +1200
      Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-18 01:17 +0000
        Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-18 04:15 -0400
      Re: Users folder being hidden with iTunes 11.2 installed and Find My Mac enabled? billy@MIX.COM - 2014-05-18 20:13 +0000

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