Yesterday, Mac users who updated to the latest version of iTunes received an update that had an interesting side effect. It hides the /Users folder. The /Users folder is a top-level folder that contains the home folder and personal files for each user on a Mac. It can usually be seen when you open up the hard drive icon or click on the finder icon. But after the update you can’t see it. Your data is still present though. You can still access their own home folders through shortcuts in the Finder sidebar. but people who have the sidebar turned off in the finder or you’re used to navigating via the finder to get to the /Users folder will find this annoying. This is being reported on Apple’s discussion boards and a possible reason as well as some fixes are being reported on Macworld. That is this is something deliberate by Apple. If you turn off Find My Mac and run one of the fixes that was suggested, the folder comes back. Turn on Find My Mac and the folder gets hidden again. So far, Apple hasn’t said anything. So Mac users will have to wait for Apple to either fix this or explain this.
Over to you Apple.
UPDATE: Well that didn’t take long. Apple has released iTunes 11.2.1 that fixes this issue.
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Apple iTunes 11.2 Hides /Users Folder On Macs [UPDATED]
Yesterday, Mac users who updated to the latest version of iTunes received an update that had an interesting side effect. It hides the /Users folder. The /Users folder is a top-level folder that contains the home folder and personal files for each user on a Mac. It can usually be seen when you open up the hard drive icon or click on the finder icon. But after the update you can’t see it. Your data is still present though. You can still access their own home folders through shortcuts in the Finder sidebar. but people who have the sidebar turned off in the finder or you’re used to navigating via the finder to get to the /Users folder will find this annoying. This is being reported on Apple’s discussion boards and a possible reason as well as some fixes are being reported on Macworld. That is this is something deliberate by Apple. If you turn off Find My Mac and run one of the fixes that was suggested, the folder comes back. Turn on Find My Mac and the folder gets hidden again. So far, Apple hasn’t said anything. So Mac users will have to wait for Apple to either fix this or explain this.
Over to you Apple.
UPDATE: Well that didn’t take long. Apple has released iTunes 11.2.1 that fixes this issue.
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