Cleaning $HOME on macOS

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2021-06-19 18:30:04

Apple computers include a custom operating system - macOS, which has a few annoying features. Among the annoyances a special place has to be reserved for the inability to remove or rename the folders located in $HOME. On the web countless macOS users are looking for the ways to bypass this restriction. Multiple suggestions are provided as possible solutions. You can: replace the folders with files; hide the folders from ‘Finder’ and make them inaccessible; or simply learn to live with them, as the system will recreate those folders by itself anyway.

I decided to hide. But, when working in the command line, hiding these folders from Finder is not enough. Below are three settings that, while not covering all corner cases, go a long way.

That is it, the folders should mostly be out of view. And if for whatever reason we need to temporary see them again a simple \ls would bypass the alias and provide us the full list.