I use them interchangeably throughout this article. The following words: program, application or app all have the same meaning. Which, if you start by double clicking the icon of the boot drive on the desktop, the path can also be presented as /Users/ your_user_account /Library/Fonts/. So in most cases, the path to the Fonts folder in your home user account would be ~/Library/Fonts/. ~/ The tilde-forward slash pair is always your home directory (folder), i.e., the home folder of the current user login session. The beginning forward slash (as in the example to the Terminal application) of a file specification is always the root level of your boot volume. This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it's called a canonical filename for short. For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application:
I can't tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don't know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name. This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article. By 'notation' I am referring to the path name. I first want to mention the notation of file locations.
