| File or Directory |
Description |
| .DS_Store |
This file contains Finder settings. |
| .Spotlight-V100 |
This file contains Spotlight settings. |
| .Trashes |
This directory contains files that have been dragged to the Trash. |
| .fseventsd |
Used by the File System events framework. |
| .hotfiles.btree |
This is used by Mac OS X's Hot-File-Adaptive-Clustering feature to keep track of frequently used files. |
| .vol/ |
This directory maps HFS+ file IDs to files. |
| Applications/ |
This directory holds all your Mac OS X applications. Check out its Utilities/ subdirectory for lots of fun stuff! |
| Developer/ |
Apple's Developer Tools and documentation. Only available if you have installed the Developer Tools. |
| Library/ |
Support files for locally installed applications, among other things. |
| Network/ |
Network-mounted Application, Library, and Users directories, as well as a Servers directory. |
| System/ |
Contains support files for the system and system applications, among other things. |
| TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ |
This directory keeps track of details such as open windows and desktop printers. |
| Users/ |
Home directories. |
| Volumes/ |
Contains all mounted filesystems. |
| .automount/ |
This directory handles static NFS mounts. |
| bin/ |
Contains essential system binaries. |
| cores/ |
If core dumps are enabled (with tcsh's limit and bash/sh's ulimit commands), they will be created in this directory as core.pid. |
| dev/ |
This directory contains files that represent various devices. |
| etc/ |
This directory contains system configuration files. |
| mach |
This is a symbolic link to the /mach.sym file. |
| mach.sym |
Kernel symbols. |
| mach_kernel |
The Darwin kernel. |
| private/ |
Contains the tmp, var, etc, and cores directories. |
| sbin/ |
Executables for system administration and configuration. |
| tmp/ |
Temporary files. |
| usr/ |
This directory contains BSD Unix applications and support files. |
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| Desktop DB, Desktop DF |
The Classic Mac OS* desktop database. |
| Desktop Folder/ |
The Mac OS 9* desktop folder. |
| Shared Items/ |
Use by Mac OS 9* to share items between users. |
| System Folder/ |
The Mac OS 9* System Folder. |
| Temporary Items/ |
Temporary files used by Mac OS 9*. |
| Trash/ |
Mac OS 9* trash folder |
| VM Storage |
Mac OS 9* virtual memory file. |
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* OS 9 is DEAD!
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